01-05-2014, 01:34 PM
Brackie,this is not green elite cabs layout plan, its mine, and ive been visualizing and working on it for awhile. Certainly borrowed ideas from others, and tweeked and altered it as people more knowledgeable than me (including GEC) have made suggestions on how to make things better, as this was the point of posting my plan on this forum in the first place. the smaller 4x8 track plan was the first layout i created a long time ago, the other is where i have currently ended up.
GCE, the brown( or red) track is the main. the tracks coming off of the main are a small "lead" if you will, to the industry spurs. Did not want to have to back out onto the main so much and wanted to be able to pull forward off the spurs onto the main in either direction , and I am not sure how I would access those industry spurs without those tracks connecting to the main. If you think its wrong or have an idea on hoe i could do it better, would love to hear it!
I have tried to do some research on the area(north florida) to find out main industries in the region. florida typically I have read is alot of limestone, and intermodal, which works for the port/wharf area. Also, tropicana orange juice lol. check out this youtube video, its neat. florida to newjersey in 156 seconds (GE juice train) <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb8mk2HSJUc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb8mk2HSJUc</a><!-- m --> Rolling stock I have currently are mostly box cars, and come covered hoppers. which i guess serves the farm area well as I want to have a stock yard and some big grain elevators, silos etc. Just have to think of some others I guess, but thats the fun part of it!
I'm thinking some type of forestry/loggin operation would be cool, as we have a lot of planted pine plantations in the area.
GCE, the brown( or red) track is the main. the tracks coming off of the main are a small "lead" if you will, to the industry spurs. Did not want to have to back out onto the main so much and wanted to be able to pull forward off the spurs onto the main in either direction , and I am not sure how I would access those industry spurs without those tracks connecting to the main. If you think its wrong or have an idea on hoe i could do it better, would love to hear it!
I have tried to do some research on the area(north florida) to find out main industries in the region. florida typically I have read is alot of limestone, and intermodal, which works for the port/wharf area. Also, tropicana orange juice lol. check out this youtube video, its neat. florida to newjersey in 156 seconds (GE juice train) <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb8mk2HSJUc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb8mk2HSJUc</a><!-- m --> Rolling stock I have currently are mostly box cars, and come covered hoppers. which i guess serves the farm area well as I want to have a stock yard and some big grain elevators, silos etc. Just have to think of some others I guess, but thats the fun part of it!
I'm thinking some type of forestry/loggin operation would be cool, as we have a lot of planted pine plantations in the area.