149th Street Harlem Station

[sailormatlac]

Matt,
sorry that I copied and inserted your plan here again.

It is every time surprisingly to me, that you can built on such relative small room a complete railroad with such harbor railways! Maybe that they must be reduced a bit in space or that some track lengths must be shortened but it's a complete railway without missing one part of reality! It's a very nice theme and I love such layouts with possibilities for switching without an end. And with barges or ferries you can change the cars on the layout after your interests and with all models from your inventory.
I'm enjoyed to see your progress and I'm looking forward to see next steps and more pictures.

Thanks Bernard, the versatily of such layout is what brought me to model it. I have many american cars that aren't of any use on my regular canadian layout. No compression, what you see on the track plan is fully 100% accurate. No tweaking, no compression, no alteration. Turnouts are exactly were they are supposed to be and radius are spot on the prototype. I went "rivet-counting" mode when designing the track plan. I leearn about Harlem Station about 5 or 6 year ago when Jack aka Shortliner did a compressed rendition published on Carl Arendt's Micro-layout website. Harlem River had over 4 of these small pocket terminals, all very different. In a small space, you get the best of two worlds.

Matt