Hey everyone! It has been awhile since I have posted anything, so I thought I woukd send in a quick update. I finally came up with a track plan for the area in front of my staging yard. It took a lot of over thinking and analysis paralysis, but I finally settled on this. I am using what we call topper tape for roadbed. It is unbelievably quiet and easy to use. The second photo is the turnouts that just took an alcohol bath to clean them up before adding wood ties and painting. Once that is done, I can start laying track!



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RS3m 9986 will be making a set out at Marlon Canning.

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I now have the final(?) track plan for the Port Able Railway. I am planning on an easily transportable (hence the name Port Able) layout 8 feet long by 1.5 feet wide that stores easily and sets up quickly. It will have two wings on each end so that it will fold into a 48x18x3 inch carrying case/sleeve that I will slide the layout into. The layout will be 3 inches deep so that I can store the rolling stock, power supply, and support legs within the layout and carrying case. The structures will be transported in a separate tote. I plan on modeling the summer of 1979 because I have an obsession with IPD box cars.

The backstory is that once the Port Able Shipbuilding Company shut down in 1978, the city of Port Able bought the property and repurposed it into an industrial park. The Port Able Railway was named as the designated operator to provide rail service to the former shipyard. The Atlantic Lines bring in cars from the left side of the layout and drops them off into either yard track 1 or 2.

I was originally going to go with an 8x1 foot track plan, but I decided to add another track to the “yard” so that sorting will be easier and so that I had a little more room for scenery. With the extra width, I will be able to add the crane canopy for the manufacturing company in the upper left corner of the plan. I also bent the track in the lower left corner of the plan so that center beam flat cars may be unloaded from both sides. There is a small dock in the lower left hand corner so that I have a reason to give the layout a maritime name.

The switchback in the upper right of the plan is long enough to accommodate a car in E. D. Ibble Foods and a small train of 2 cars and a locomotive to serve the manufacturing plant and chair company. I designed the layout so that at maximum, one car would be pulled and one car would be dropped at each spur. I plan to run 3-5 cars per operating session by rolling a dice and using a shuffled deck of index cards for each industry.

Here is a list of the maximum number of car loadings per week:

   

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Big train show in Denver this weekend!

The 2017 Season is underway... Today we find out how the new point system works.

dwight77:
Jimmie Johnson
Joey Logano
Kevin Harvick

Mike Kieran:
Jimmie Johnson
Kyle Busch
Kevin Harvick

ngauger:
Martin Truex Jr
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Brad Keselowski

Photos proof SOO replaced ex MILW MP15AC with SOO GP9 (photo is a GP7) doing local jobs in Chicago in 1996. All those jobs are done by MP15AC in 1986. Anybody here knows when the SOO GP9 started doing the former MILW MP15AC jobs?
This one of my oldest Atlas models but it still runs perfect. It deserves a ECO Tsunami next week.

IMG_5420 by faraway52, on Flickr

Does anyone here use our chat room anymore? Let me go check.......... uh, NO, one post there this year and it didn't belong, a few last year and gee, nobody is really chatting anymore, at least not like the old days. There was a time with our old chat room, that there was a specific time that we got together and just talked about anything. Anyone got any ideas to get things going again? We can do a few things, one is when we make changes to Big Blue, get an improved chat room that might attract some, or we can just do away with it if there's no interest. Packey says that the new software could include a choice of some better chat rooms than what we have now, but we need to know if it's worth his time to implement one....

Anyone got any thoughts on the subject??????