Hi all , I’m doing my first real layout. I am the guy who just recently bought the $910 kato unitrack lot off eBay. I am doing a 3 door N scale in a U shape. DCC wiring . It’s going to be a new haven rail and it will concentrate on middletown and Portland , Connecticut. I will be trying my damndest to make it look realistic but not realistic operational. If you google search the rail bridge in middletown ct and the arrigoni bridge (auto bridge) the rail bridge is a 4 bridge 150ft trestle with a 210ft swing bridge . I am making it a double track mainline across the train bridge with a return over the arrigoni bridge at least for now that is what is in my head.
On the Portland side of the Connecticut river is a brownstone quarry famous for being the stone that built the brownstones in New York City . I am still in development (in my head) . One of my dilemmas is that there is a ton of 3% curved grade and that is just to get up to 7” for the arrigoni bridge .
It’s funny what actually made me seek a forum like this out. I am a furniture restorer and I took a silver kato double track trestle with me to work to try and make it look 100% rusty like the bridge is now and I thought it came out pretty good . The wife gave me praise like she always does (what else can she do) and everyone else I showed looked at me funny.
I know a 3 door layout is big and you can do a ton but this river crossing is what inspired me. No yard, no turntable with a roundhouse but a huge double track mainline , city on one side, river in the center and historic quarry on the other side . Who knows, maybe inwill scrap the whole idea and do something else. The river alone will waste 4 feet in the center with 2 crossings. Thanks for listening . As soon as I get some natural light I will attach a pic of the first bridge I did .
On the Portland side of the Connecticut river is a brownstone quarry famous for being the stone that built the brownstones in New York City . I am still in development (in my head) . One of my dilemmas is that there is a ton of 3% curved grade and that is just to get up to 7” for the arrigoni bridge .
It’s funny what actually made me seek a forum like this out. I am a furniture restorer and I took a silver kato double track trestle with me to work to try and make it look 100% rusty like the bridge is now and I thought it came out pretty good . The wife gave me praise like she always does (what else can she do) and everyone else I showed looked at me funny.
I know a 3 door layout is big and you can do a ton but this river crossing is what inspired me. No yard, no turntable with a roundhouse but a huge double track mainline , city on one side, river in the center and historic quarry on the other side . Who knows, maybe inwill scrap the whole idea and do something else. The river alone will waste 4 feet in the center with 2 crossings. Thanks for listening . As soon as I get some natural light I will attach a pic of the first bridge I did .
