07-02-2014, 12:53 AM
G'day Folks, Thanks for the positive responses, I appreciate the experience and insight of the contributors.
I should add that most of my rolling stock is 1970-1980 era and so I will probably run close to that era for the layout.
I also have a preference for South Eastern states of U.S. as my reference to Aberdeen & Rockfish would suggest.
I have about 200 freight cars and a limited budget so I am unlikely to move from that in a hurry. Seaboard Coast Line/Family Lines is a major road.
After I get the garage sorted out and the inside shed erected I will be reviewing my freight car balance to get closer to finalized industry choices. I have a great liking of the Incentive Per Diem box cars or that era and hence the preference for an industry that receives a lot of clean new cars (i.e. the Newsprint warehouse).
In regard to track I too would prefer PECO code 55 over the code 80 track, but I have quite a few code 80 points (switches in U.S. rail talk) already and the limited budget means I have to use what I already have. One thought that I have is to use the code 80 track on the switching areas where I can hopefully have lots of distracting details and scenery to draw the eye away from the high rail. Also I plan to paint and weather the track. The classification yard and surrounds is very much `all track' and I would probably use PECO code 55 track in that area as I ma reasonably confident I would have used up all the code 80 in the switching areas.
The Switching AREA 2 conversation regarding use of a shoving platform may be influenced by my core time frame of 1970-80 and how many code 80 switches I have
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The lumber trans-loading area is to be at the very end of the team track in Switching Area 3 and as the adjacent runaround track curves off to join the switch there should be enough room to get a forklift in on both sides of the track. plus I plant to make it a raised platform to allow car floor height forklift access. When I fire up Auran TRAINZ again I will take a screenshot of the area from that end.
Comments and feedback most welcome.
Thanks Again, Andrew G.
I should add that most of my rolling stock is 1970-1980 era and so I will probably run close to that era for the layout.
I also have a preference for South Eastern states of U.S. as my reference to Aberdeen & Rockfish would suggest.
I have about 200 freight cars and a limited budget so I am unlikely to move from that in a hurry. Seaboard Coast Line/Family Lines is a major road.
After I get the garage sorted out and the inside shed erected I will be reviewing my freight car balance to get closer to finalized industry choices. I have a great liking of the Incentive Per Diem box cars or that era and hence the preference for an industry that receives a lot of clean new cars (i.e. the Newsprint warehouse).
In regard to track I too would prefer PECO code 55 over the code 80 track, but I have quite a few code 80 points (switches in U.S. rail talk) already and the limited budget means I have to use what I already have. One thought that I have is to use the code 80 track on the switching areas where I can hopefully have lots of distracting details and scenery to draw the eye away from the high rail. Also I plan to paint and weather the track. The classification yard and surrounds is very much `all track' and I would probably use PECO code 55 track in that area as I ma reasonably confident I would have used up all the code 80 in the switching areas.
The Switching AREA 2 conversation regarding use of a shoving platform may be influenced by my core time frame of 1970-80 and how many code 80 switches I have
.The lumber trans-loading area is to be at the very end of the team track in Switching Area 3 and as the adjacent runaround track curves off to join the switch there should be enough room to get a forklift in on both sides of the track. plus I plant to make it a raised platform to allow car floor height forklift access. When I fire up Auran TRAINZ again I will take a screenshot of the area from that end.
Comments and feedback most welcome.
Thanks Again, Andrew G.
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