where do I start trying to explain this?
Room at the bottom of pic is 13'x 25'. Top left of this room has the sliding door to the drive. The top room is the workshop staging and helix it's 4'x 25'
Top level main line comes out of helix into room (10' across 13' up) next to coal mine around peninsula and thru Springfield, no industries here just a sleepy wee town with a passenger platform and small office, passing siding allows 10'ish trains to pass.
down grade all the way to Darfield. bigger farming town. Passenger station, brick works, lime loading. Passing siding and loading tracks. I haven't finished here need to get some proto photo's.
down to a middle level which only goes around the peninsula and down to Rolleston top right of layout room. Rolleston is where the main west from Darfield and the main south from Dunedin meet. The main south line comes from staging.
bottom level is flat cause the yard is easier to build. Christchurch is the biggest city in the South Island and is served by the port Lyttleton. I think you call Middleton yards interchange, freight from north and south as well as local and to and from the port. I possibly have room for more yards here ( width is nearly 30")
More industries are planned for the south side of the yard ( towards the staging area) and towards the tunnel to Lyttleton.
thru middleton yards and Chch passenger station past a future Woolston industrial area, into a tunnel to Lyttleton where the coal trains run thru a building and get emptied and run up the helix back to the coal mine. I'm not sure about modeling wharfs so I'll work on this. The main line runs separately thru here too and up the outside track of the helix back to the top.
I didn't show the edge of the benchwork on the top level but it will be 12-18" wide.
The tracks wont be dead straight in areas like the top level bottom of picture, their just easier to draw straight.
Room at the bottom of pic is 13'x 25'. Top left of this room has the sliding door to the drive. The top room is the workshop staging and helix it's 4'x 25'
Top level main line comes out of helix into room (10' across 13' up) next to coal mine around peninsula and thru Springfield, no industries here just a sleepy wee town with a passenger platform and small office, passing siding allows 10'ish trains to pass.
down grade all the way to Darfield. bigger farming town. Passenger station, brick works, lime loading. Passing siding and loading tracks. I haven't finished here need to get some proto photo's.
down to a middle level which only goes around the peninsula and down to Rolleston top right of layout room. Rolleston is where the main west from Darfield and the main south from Dunedin meet. The main south line comes from staging.
bottom level is flat cause the yard is easier to build. Christchurch is the biggest city in the South Island and is served by the port Lyttleton. I think you call Middleton yards interchange, freight from north and south as well as local and to and from the port. I possibly have room for more yards here ( width is nearly 30")
More industries are planned for the south side of the yard ( towards the staging area) and towards the tunnel to Lyttleton.
thru middleton yards and Chch passenger station past a future Woolston industrial area, into a tunnel to Lyttleton where the coal trains run thru a building and get emptied and run up the helix back to the coal mine. I'm not sure about modeling wharfs so I'll work on this. The main line runs separately thru here too and up the outside track of the helix back to the top.
I didn't show the edge of the benchwork on the top level but it will be 12-18" wide.
The tracks wont be dead straight in areas like the top level bottom of picture, their just easier to draw straight.
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