Reviewing my layout plans

[Engfanuk]

Steve - go look at Jack Hills New Castle Industrial RR. It will give you reasonable length switching with two spurs in the same plant+ a transload spur

<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://oscalewcor.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/NCIR%20OPERATIONS">http://oscalewcor.blogspot.co.uk/search ... OPERATIONS</a><!-- m --> - It is O scale but will shrink to about half that in HO or around a third in N scale You can always add an extra industry if you have the room, and the washed out bridge truncating the branch is a reason for the size of trains

Thanks. I've looked at Jack's blog and that has been of great interest. He effectively has three industries and that's plenty for me. I guess I'm hesitant to go completely freelance and not have a the air of authenticity I feel I need to keep me interested and not leave me concerned I'm building a fake. That's not to day a freelance layout can't be authentic or interesting. It's just recognising my lack of knowledge of North American railroad, and not being able to railfan to gather details, that I need to fill that personal lack with a prototype to keep me "keeping it real" to coin a phrase.

It's probably just a confidence thing that I need to get over.

Anyway I do appreciate the nudge to look at Jack's work again and think.