jbaakko
Diesel Detail Freak
Here we go, its a double loop, with some grades (3%+ !!), but no matter, the hills in the region he's modeling call for grades.
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View attachment 4958
Open the image, then read...
- The narrow town area will be to the upper left now, along with the roundhouse.
- The mine is the spur in the bottom middle.
- The trains pass clockwise through town to the top middle.
- The milling being the upper right, the single diagonal spur becomes the tipple (high ground).
- The yard begins here, looping along the right wall, its single ended, mostly for storage...
- The mainline disappears behind a tree line, downgrade, to pop out on the drop down bridge, "under" the yard.
- The mainline the reappears behind the roundhouse.
- It then passes by the lower portion of the mill, and the copper load out track.
- Then, looping back around, upgrade, crossing on the inner drop down bridge, climbing past the mine again.
- The "shoe-fly" track climbs from the roundhouse, to the yard.
- The difference in height will be about 4-7", enough to hide tracks, yet still be able to get to them from below if a derailment should occur.
- The front edge of the layout, near the mill will have some water modeled, as the stamp mills used ALOT of water...