Help needed on new office layout

[Green_Elite_Cab]

I can think of several ideal short lines.

Ones that immeadiately come to mind are the Raritan Central Railway, and the Rahway Valley Railroad.

Both are shortlines in New Jersey and that connected with Conrail (or Conrail Shared Assets Operations these days). The Rahway Valley Railroad was finally abandoned in the early part of the 1990s, but was easily modelable, and used a pair of 70 ton switchers (offered by Bachmann Spectrum) and some New YorK, Susquehanna & Western switchers before abandonment.

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The Raritan Central Railway is still in service, and acts as a terminal railroad serving a large industrial park. Pieces of this would also be pretty easy to model.

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If you REALLY want a good idea, go to multimodalways.org and search around. Conrail produces ZTS charts, which map out in extreme detail (right down to the spotting locations of cars) the tracks in its system. You could pick any single industrial track of the MILLIONs, and find something interesting to model.

Railroad documents in general-

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Conrail ZTS charts

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