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Re: A Look At Slate Creek. - paulus_jas - 10-16-2011 hi Brakie yes you answered the questions. The three remarks above the questions had to do with them. To give an example: when i ask about fiddling behind industries, your reply is: that track is not hidden(underground?) When i talk about adding a cassette your reply is typical, the length of a consist is not the same every day, so a cassette is out. The cassete might double as a fiddle track too, beside creating a few feet of additional length for the spurs. Of course you do not comment on it. A forum is great in sharing or discussing idea's..it needs two to tango however. Smile Paul Re: A Look At Slate Creek. - Brakie - 10-16-2011 When it comes to dancing I got 2 left feet--some times. As far as hidden track there won't be any above or below ground. The cassette might double as a fiddle track too, beside creating a few feet of additional length for the spurs. Of course you do not comment on it. ----------------------- That's a 2 left feet thing. I overlooked question. :oops: Interesting thought-maybe use like a carfloat? Re: A Look At Slate Creek. - Justinmiller171 - 10-16-2011 Personal, I don't like cassettes, I know Lance Mindheim used one with his east-rail layout, but it just seems like too much work to do all of the wiring and such, in n-scale it would also be a pain the line up the track on the cassette with the track on the layout. I think Brakie should stick with a fiddle track. Re: A Look At Slate Creek. - paulus_jas - 10-17-2011 Justinmiller171 Wrote:Personal, I don't like cassettes, I know Lance Mindheim used one with his east-rail layout, but it just seems like too much work to do all of the wiring and such, in n-scale it would also be a pain the line up the track on the cassette with the track on the layout. I think Brakie should stick with a fiddle track.hi Justin and Brakie The question always is: what can a cassette do for your layout? What is the price you'll have to pay? What it can do is clear; the part of the layout that can effectively be used is at least 2 feet longer, not bad on a 6 feet long layout. It is a great place to fiddle. And yes Brakie, you can operate it like a car-float. The pain, yes lots of it...in its most simple configuration it is like adding a few straight snap-tracks, beside putting in a plug for electrical contact. BTW a forum is about sharing idea's, not for telling someone else what he or she should do. Smile Paul Re: A Look At Slate Creek. - Brakie - 10-17-2011 Guys,With my current planned operation I'm not sure a staging track or cassette is fully warranted. :? :?: Here's a little secrete..Over the past few weeks I have entertain the idea of backing dating to the 50s using a carfloat but,can't devise a workable scheme for such a operation-I must be getting old the whole 50 idea is to have a steam powered railroad. Re: A Look At Slate Creek. - Tyson Rayles - 10-17-2011 Larry if this is going to be a steam era switching layout are you going to use a tank engine so your tender isn't always in the way? Re: A Look At Slate Creek. - MountainMan - 10-17-2011 Is there space at the rear of your yard for a hidden staging track behind buildings or flats? Re: A Look At Slate Creek. - Brakie - 10-17-2011 Tyson Rayles Wrote:Larry if this is going to be a steam era switching layout are you going to use a tank engine so your tender isn't always in the way? Mike,No..I would probably use a Spectrum 2-8-0 or 4-6-0.The 4-6-0 was bought by the shortline as a replace their worn out 2-8-0. But,that remains to be seen. Re: A Look At Slate Creek. - Brakie - 10-17-2011 MountainMan Wrote:Is there space at the rear of your yard for a hidden staging track behind buildings or flats? No..The flats will be glued to the backdrop. Re: A Look At Slate Creek. - MountainMan - 10-17-2011 This will sound crazy, but can you place a large building at one end of your payout that can hold a small, hidden staging area? Something like a long warehouse? Re: A Look At Slate Creek. - FCIN - 10-17-2011 Brakie Wrote:Over the past few weeks I have entertain the idea of backing dating to the 50s using a carfloat but,can't devise a workable scheme for such a operation-I must be getting old the whole 50 idea is to have a steam powered railroad.Larry; Check out the latest issue of MR. Quite a few pages devoted to car float operations and some layout ideas. Re: A Look At Slate Creek. - steinjr - 10-17-2011 MountainMan Wrote:This will sound crazy, but can you place a large building at one end of your payout that can hold a small, hidden staging area? Something like a long warehouse? Yes, he can. An example in H0 scale would be the 18" deep and 10 foot long "Tenderfoot Industrial Railroad" by Peter M White (http://www.shenware.com/layouts/tenderfoot.html). 18" deep and 10 foot long in H0 scale is about the equivalent of 10" deep and 5 1/2 foot long in N scale. It is a nice switching layout. But it is not necessarily what Larry is looking for Smile, Stein Re: A Look At Slate Creek. - paulus_jas - 10-18-2011 hi Brakie, You'll see 3 plans here. The first two are designed for N-scale, the last one for HO. #2 is a N-scale addaption of the plan SteinJr spoke about above. Due to the #5 Atlas c55 switches the design turned out to be a wee bit longer then 6 feet. You could do the remaining tinkering yourself. #3 is a disign by Ulrich or SirMaddog, if you leave the Anchorage staging out you have a plan that could probably be fitted also in your space. Have fun with them Paul Re: A Look At Slate Creek. - BOK - 10-18-2011 Pulas: I like all three of your layout plans since they include a run around track. The runaround track can give the layout a sense of arriving, from staging, "turning" the consist(running around it) and then departing back to staging rather than just shoving in to the layout and switching a bunch of spur tracks. Mostof the modern railroads I have managed/worked on have at least one or more run around tracks for reliable service. Making shoves all the time is a pain, consumes too much time and is more like a model railroad move than prototype modeling. Barry Re: A Look At Slate Creek. - MountainMan - 10-18-2011 steinjr Wrote:MountainMan Wrote:This will sound crazy, but can you place a large building at one end of your payout that can hold a small, hidden staging area? Something like a long warehouse? I thought he was asking for suggestions... |