Thinking about the NS's rathole division (KY thru TN) with some run thru pool power from KCS, SP, CNW, CSX, BNSF, and even UP
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I now have an open bedroom that been waiting on for a few years, so it adds and extra 11' w x 14' l to my existing 8' w x 12' l area, just have to go thru the wall lol.
I ahve enough modern rolling stock, such as 4 unit container trains, 3 unit covered hoppers, 4 unit coal trains, 1 unit autorack train, 1 mech reefer unit train, and enough boxcars, flats, coil cars, airslides, centerbeams, and misc cars to make up abut 3 mixed freight trains.
Have only recently started building structures for this. I took 2 of the walthers grain silo kits and merged them together into one nice one. Theres a local plant that I would like to build, but would take some serious compression for it. Tom's foods, corp office and main plant here, has a 7 wide, 3 deep silo structure with headhouse, and the surrounding plant, warehouse and shipping dept. If modelled after proto, with no compression, it would have a footprint of about 4' w x 8' l. So need to cut it down to about 4 silo wide by 2 silo deep with maybe a 8" x 10" plant, 4" by 6" shipping (trucks), and 6" by 10" warehouse. Theres a ex-csx, ex-sal, yard behind it, now served by GA South Western rr, with a gp20 that they leave there until needed. It serves the Toms, 2 different scrap yards, Dolly Madison bakery, and an abandonded warehouse.
So I kinda have an idea of what I'm doing, just can't decide how to do trackplan to fit in this into the "rathole" and its surrounding area.
LOL