Stein's Minneapolis Warehouse district 1957 (HO)

[steinjr]

Having slept on it, I realize that there is a fifth choice (in addition to the 0.5" step with fence on top of wall Reinhard suggested):
5. Level three track yard at elevation 0.5", 4% (1") downgrade to a barge terminal at elevation minus 0.5".

4% incline is not so bad for a short ramp where cars will be pushed downhill and pulled up hill. Hmm - I don't think I can get 1" thick styrofoam here - we only seem to have the 2" thick kind. Wonder if I can cut the barge terminal area down about 0.5" with a knife if I rig up some kind of guide for the knife ?

Will have to experiment on some scrap foam.

The obvious solution (once I figured it out) turned out to be to just cut away all the foam in the barge terminal area (instead of trying to cut away a 0.5" thick layer from the 2" thick foam, and then use WS risers to put in some height again.

Roughing in things after cutting away the foam:

Overview of scene:


Train coming up the ramp from the barge terminal:


Difference in height between main and barge terminal area:


Okay - time to measure how to make the end profile boards on the two sections this will run across, glue them to the two sections and bolt them together, before fasting down risers etc.

Smile,
Stein