New small ISL trackplan - need feedback

[Yngve]

Hello and thank you for the nice comments! I will definately consider reducing the width of the layout. Considering that I want it to be easy to handle its only an advantage to make it smaller, so I will look into that.

Hi Yngve, I like your track plan very much, it's my kind of layout.

The 'Inglenook' arrangement works well and is fun to operate.

If fact ,the track plan is similar to my current 'CSX Transflo, NY' and also my old layout 'CSX Palmetto Spur'.

I tend to agree with Ed that the 30 inch width could be reduced, my layouts are only 15 inches wide.

You mentioned operating European rolling stock, which country in Europe do you model?

Good luck with the project and I look forward to seeing your progress.


Mal

I have followed your threads closely, your layouts have been some of the most inspiring for me and definately pushed me towards the decision of making a small ISL. Its also good to hear feedback from people who have operated similar layouts.

I live in Norway so I have quite a bit of Norwegian rolling stock. But when it comes to modern freight cars they are travelling all over Europe so they are not dedicated to one specific country. I saw a thread on a Norwegian forum called "Foreign freight cars on Norwegian tracks" and there are various freight cars from all over Europe. After travelling to Denmark for the last two summers and witnessing the international freight trains rolling through the country my collection of freight cars have increased quite alot with freight cars from Transwaggon, Railion, DB Cargo, Wascosa, Nacco, etc.... It gives me another source of variety on my layout as I can run international style freight trains of today, or typical Norwegian rolling stock which were more common in the 80's and 90's.

For switching I will mainly use this beauty <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.nexusboard.net/showthread.php?siteid=2408&threadid=323190">http://www.nexusboard.net/showthread.ph ... did=323190</a><!-- m -->
Its from a private German company, which will work well for a small switching layout. It was an expensive purchase for such a small loco, but it looks fantastic and runs beautifully!

(PS! Check out my youtube channel, I have just finished a video series from my latest Denmark trip and it includes a lot of the typical international freight trains you see in Europe <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MrYoung86/videos">http://www.youtube.com/user/MrYoung86/videos</a><!-- m --> )