05-19-2009, 05:15 AM
The plan continues evolving.
For your enjoyment I've included some ideas for scenery. The time portrayed is late steam, maybe around 1960. Got some trains in the mail now, and ran some tests on how much train should fit onto the sidings, and it seems that there will be plenty of room for adequate train lenths available.
The thin black lines are height contours, approximately one inch each. I think the inclines around the bridge are both going to approximately 5% (both inclines are about 400mm long and the bridge is to be about 36 to 40mm high.
Question 1: I planned to divide the track into a number of sections (the red blocks denote electrically insulated sections) Does the proposed wiring with multiple controllers and switches for every section of the layout to select with which one to control which section work?
Question 2: On a related note, turntables should typically only conduct power into the direction of where the turntable is pointed at, right? Most likely going to attempt scratchbuilding, so anything should be possible, I guess. Skill being the only limit..
Question 3: I haven't decided yet on the industries. Currently the transport going to happen on the layout is a) passengers from Village to Industry East, (workers can walk to Industry West on foot), b) something from Industry West to Industry East, c) something from Industry East to Industry West. Industry West could possibly be replaced by a hint of a river harbour, so that raw materials could arrive there, be transported to Industry East and be transported back for distribution. There just isn't too much room for such in that corner, so keeping it just an industry might be wiser.
For your enjoyment I've included some ideas for scenery. The time portrayed is late steam, maybe around 1960. Got some trains in the mail now, and ran some tests on how much train should fit onto the sidings, and it seems that there will be plenty of room for adequate train lenths available.
The thin black lines are height contours, approximately one inch each. I think the inclines around the bridge are both going to approximately 5% (both inclines are about 400mm long and the bridge is to be about 36 to 40mm high.
Question 1: I planned to divide the track into a number of sections (the red blocks denote electrically insulated sections) Does the proposed wiring with multiple controllers and switches for every section of the layout to select with which one to control which section work?
Question 2: On a related note, turntables should typically only conduct power into the direction of where the turntable is pointed at, right? Most likely going to attempt scratchbuilding, so anything should be possible, I guess. Skill being the only limit..
Question 3: I haven't decided yet on the industries. Currently the transport going to happen on the layout is a) passengers from Village to Industry East, (workers can walk to Industry West on foot), b) something from Industry West to Industry East, c) something from Industry East to Industry West. Industry West could possibly be replaced by a hint of a river harbour, so that raw materials could arrive there, be transported to Industry East and be transported back for distribution. There just isn't too much room for such in that corner, so keeping it just an industry might be wiser.
-norm