03-25-2012, 08:56 AM
Haven't posted anything about my little layout in a while - finally got around to making some small changes.
1) I took up two spurs which had been placed directly on the plywood and put road bed under them, to put almost all the tracks at the same level - gives me two more car spots on each track to not use almost a foot of each track on the transition slope down tracks on track bed to tracks directly on plywood.
2) Turned the three tracks at far right into a small yard, and made the shelf table about 3" wide at the far right end, to allow buildings on the aisle side
3) Added a removable staging cassette long enough to hold an engine and 4-5 cars to right side of the layout.
A little video showing a transfer run - Consolidation #724 arrives with four cars and pushes the cars into Westside yard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obrNP_0qt_4
Smile,
Stein
1) I took up two spurs which had been placed directly on the plywood and put road bed under them, to put almost all the tracks at the same level - gives me two more car spots on each track to not use almost a foot of each track on the transition slope down tracks on track bed to tracks directly on plywood.
2) Turned the three tracks at far right into a small yard, and made the shelf table about 3" wide at the far right end, to allow buildings on the aisle side
3) Added a removable staging cassette long enough to hold an engine and 4-5 cars to right side of the layout.
A little video showing a transfer run - Consolidation #724 arrives with four cars and pushes the cars into Westside yard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obrNP_0qt_4
Smile,
Stein