Callum,
If you had started this little exercise a year earlier My N scale layout would definitely look a lot different.I may still swipe some of your inspiration as I have a HO switching layout locked in my head screaming to be turned loose.

Please do "Catt"!!

Do any of you guys have reference photos of small bakery or bread?food industries that would have 2-3 silos and be a fairly small building?

Something like this SB THomas

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There has been one Seville Ave in Vernon, CA.
https://www.google.de/maps/place/Vernon,...118.230073

Thanks Reinhard!

Been looking long and hard at the last design and there were a few elements I didn't enjoy. The track looked spaced out too much with a lot of "no mans land" areas. I like the feel of the real concrete canyons so tried a similar but different plan based on this and some of the last designs.

This one has a longer staging area as well and the rear industries will "fit" better too. I'll still need to see what industries I'll place at each point but this is a good base afaik.

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Only hick up is Ill be one turnout short from my orders as it has one more right and one less left switch.

Looking good....I've been a bit of inspired looking at your drawings so I used some elements on my own layout.
Regards, Chris

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faraway Wrote:There has been one Seville Ave in Vernon, CA.
https://www.google.de/maps/place/Vernon,...118.230073

Reinhard's aerial shows the tortilla plant on the old LAJ Swift & Plywood Lead. By scrolling down Seville Ave the Santa Fe & LAJ team tracks can be seen. And by scrolling right even more of the LAJ can be seen.

Not sure if any of you have seen this site before https://thestagingyard.wordpress.com/201...e-the-one/

In thi post he talks about a spur in Lubbock TX, a small pike that fits very well into the same sort of area I have in my spare room. The designs I have had were based on an 8ft shelf 2ft wide to try and not be too cumbersome in the room. I could go bigger and this is just another thought out loud. I like the fact that it's based on a real spur, wouldn't model the same area but there are already prototypes from StLouis that I know will work in the same layout.

Here is the original layout plan:
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This all works quite well. I suppose there are many spurs that would fit in this space but I like that this is based on a real spur and that its pretty much to scale. Below is an example of how I could build it in 2 phases, this first one with a simple clamp on section for the first industry which I think I would make a lumber dealer and move the track a little. At the moment though this is just a carbon copy of Lubbock TX. I could still make it my own with different industries.



Looking at the site it doesn’t look like this guy ever build this design, will spend some time reading more of the pages and see why. He too is an SP fan and this is an ATSF railway so it would need to be proto-freelance. I could use some of the structures as they appear in the real thing and move the timeframe and area to where I want. Lots of space to model scenery and make a VERY realistic layout which I really think will hold my attention more than something totally fictitious..

Here is what I could do:

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Here are the changes I can make to do it in 2 steps, first to use the industry on the far right as staging and add a removable spur to switch the now lumber dealer in the miglddle at the front of the layout.

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The below image is of Alpha Packaging from StLouis MO and it's an interesting setup structure wise and with the industry across from it. It takes hoppers and there as tank cars, not sure exactly what's there and what it receives.

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https://www.bing.com/mapspreview?&ty=18&...orm=S00027

I could build this on a 15-16inch shelf, taking up less room and then add the runaround and second staging section at a later date adding to the scenery and operation potential of the layout. It's a typical industrial type track plan and could probably be found almost anywhere in the US. The fact that I wouldn't have a run round in the beginning isn't an issue as I never had one on my last layout and it's not realistic in a small footprint anyway. Allows far less shelf to be used for the rails and it works well!!

I think...(out loud)

Its either that with possibility of growing the layout (also depends on the success of a twin line curved lift out section, which I am sure I can do) or its back to this shorrter but slightly wider layout.

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Or its this one with no run around which on a layout this size is not needed IMHO.

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I don't know why, but I want to make an addition to #2. Make the second turnout from the right into a standard Peco 3-way, and bring another spur into the front of the veneer plant, by the trees, to hold a couple of shorty beer-can tankers for supplying glue or similar

I'm calling this post Alpha Packaging. Found in StLouis MO its a very interesting two industrier across from one an other.

https://www.bing.com/mapspreview?&ty=18&...orm=S00027

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I laid the 1:1 aerial view from Google Maps over my smaller layout option and it makes for quire a good simple plan that has plenty potential and is a real life spur.

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I think if I decide against a runaround the track layout will be realistic and spaced like the real thing. This would give a similar switching reward as the Palmetto Spur from LM or Mels layouts!!