04-22-2013, 03:23 PM
Chris Gilbert, a UK modeler who posts here, redid the Alaska layout he posted about on this site as a Florida Tri-Rail station. This, of course, is a long-and-narrow, freestanding for exhibitions, but it could be a shelf. His friend Nick Palette has done something very similar with GO Transit equipment on a layout he calls Northpoint <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.palette/Gallery.html">http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.palette/Gallery.html</a><!-- m --> It seems to me that push-pull equipment ought to lend itself very well to small layouts.
Actually, I'm tempted to try to resuscitate a thread on one or another of these forums to discuss passenger modeling. A lot of the most active guys several years ago seem to have gone to graduate school and then started careers, so they don't seem to be as active as they used to be. I designed a fair amount of passenger operation into my current layout -- I haven't taken as much advantage of the possibilities I've built in, partly for want of encouragement!
Actually, I'm tempted to try to resuscitate a thread on one or another of these forums to discuss passenger modeling. A lot of the most active guys several years ago seem to have gone to graduate school and then started careers, so they don't seem to be as active as they used to be. I designed a fair amount of passenger operation into my current layout -- I haven't taken as much advantage of the possibilities I've built in, partly for want of encouragement!