Progress on the Canadian Southern

[Wiredup]

lol, and here I thought I was fictional freelancing.

so much for google.


Anyways, I've come up with a cool terminal plan that sets the stage for a pretty interesting track plan. I borrowed some cues from a few MRR magazines. I just put in the unitrack order with Mike Fifer for everything but the yard tracks for the terminal. Should turn out pretty good.

I'll pots a trackplan diagram later tonight... but I'll try and describe it a bit.

The terminal's freight yard will be 3" above "sea level". The terminal will have it's own integrated reverse loop, and seperated by the main line with the freight yard south of the main, and the engine terminal and reverse loop north. The passenger terminal we actually be below the freight terminal. Access to the passenger station tracks from the south will be from sea level, from the north, it will link with the main yard. Unfortunatley I won't be able to "see" my passenger trains at station keeping. But, this whole terminal setup gives me more options for setting up the mountain terrain for the rest of the layout. I can now fit in everything I want into my termianl, while keeping minimum radius's above 13"

I'm toying around with actually using the "passenger terminal" as staging tracks as well... it's currently setup to be double tracked, but I think I can also add a wye to link with the rest of the layout and have a few tracks of hidden staging along the wye.

I'll post my terminal plan later, and then come back with a more finished overall plan.