OCMRRC Jeff
OCMRRC President/webmastr
The wife came to me the other day saying she wants my side of the basement where I have a 10x16 O shaped layout, a shelf layout with 75 switches.
After a week of grumping around Mike, my neighbor, stopped by and suggested that I offer to take down 2 sides of the layout as that would leave me with a L shaped switching layout.
I was against it but remembered the golden rule "She with the gold makes the rules" also what I was losing was one side of the layout that was originally my portable module with 3 industries, sort of a John Allen timesaver switching layout and the other end which was just track to complete the circle. I am keeping the steam engine yard with 4 stall roundhouse and the diesel facility and 50 car yard as well as 15 industries and about 60 switches (don't know how many) I can always run trains in a circle at the Old Colony club and I do like switching the best and even better now I don't have to worry about a duck under.
Pictures will follow once I get it cleaned up. The top picture is from before taking out the duck under and shows the side of the layout staying, the bottom picture is where I took out the town and added 3 industries and implied the town with a row of buildings.
After a week of grumping around Mike, my neighbor, stopped by and suggested that I offer to take down 2 sides of the layout as that would leave me with a L shaped switching layout.
I was against it but remembered the golden rule "She with the gold makes the rules" also what I was losing was one side of the layout that was originally my portable module with 3 industries, sort of a John Allen timesaver switching layout and the other end which was just track to complete the circle. I am keeping the steam engine yard with 4 stall roundhouse and the diesel facility and 50 car yard as well as 15 industries and about 60 switches (don't know how many) I can always run trains in a circle at the Old Colony club and I do like switching the best and even better now I don't have to worry about a duck under.
Pictures will follow once I get it cleaned up. The top picture is from before taking out the duck under and shows the side of the layout staying, the bottom picture is where I took out the town and added 3 industries and implied the town with a row of buildings.