06-17-2010, 04:03 PM
Hello all, first post here and thought I'd submit my layout plan for review. I'm modeling the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha (Omaha Road-I know, creative user name right?) in Eau Claire, WI in 1951. Eau Claire was a major junction for the Omaha with one of the lines north to Spooner/Superior/Ashland originating there. There was a major classification yard just to the east of town and a small yard in town with a dedicated switch job to handle local industries and passenger switching. This was the route of the famous CNW 'Twin Cities 400' but besides the flashy streamliners up to 10 passenger trains a day stopped here in 1951-most needed at least some switching of their express/mail consist. My plan focuses on the small yard/depot area and the two major industries in town-a US Rubber tire plant and a paper mill.
![[Image: aroundthewallsshelfmkii.th.jpg]](http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/9849/aroundthewallsshelfmkii.th.jpg)
The track in the upper left that appears to go off plan is a helix located half in a closer. The helix will go down to a lower level staging area. I won't be tackling the helix right away-there is plenty of other railroad to build first. The helix will likely be the last feature added, once I've gotten the hang of things.
Just looking at the plan as I type this I already have one or two ideas-one being flipping the yard so the ladder is at the bottum and moving/adding a crossover or two to make industry switching easer. I'll wait to do that until I get a bit of feedback though
As always suggestions are welcome and encouraged. I'm sure I've made more than a few bone headed design errors here and am certainly thick skinned-fire away
.
![[Image: aroundthewallsshelfmkii.th.jpg]](http://img8.imageshack.us/i/aroundthewallsshelfmkii.jpg/)
The track in the upper left that appears to go off plan is a helix located half in a closer. The helix will go down to a lower level staging area. I won't be tackling the helix right away-there is plenty of other railroad to build first. The helix will likely be the last feature added, once I've gotten the hang of things.
Just looking at the plan as I type this I already have one or two ideas-one being flipping the yard so the ladder is at the bottum and moving/adding a crossover or two to make industry switching easer. I'll wait to do that until I get a bit of feedback though
As always suggestions are welcome and encouraged. I'm sure I've made more than a few bone headed design errors here and am certainly thick skinned-fire away
.