gseritt
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Gary,
I would suggest for what you need, Walthers/Shinohara. I think that Oak Mountain has some.
Thank you, CJ!! I still need to go check that place out sometime soon. Haven't been there yet.
Gary,
I would suggest for what you need, Walthers/Shinohara. I think that Oak Mountain has some.
Thank you, CJ!! I still need to go check that place out sometime soon. Haven't been there yet.
Obviously they're not into internet sales.
Gary is like me, it's an easy drive to there. I live about 10 miles from it and he is slightly further.
Way out of focus but I'm thinking something along these lines for the industry sideView attachment 44876. This is from the January 1988 MR magazine. The Carbondale Central is the name of the layout.
That doesn't look all that far off from the track you already had in place for the industrial end of your layout. It should fit in there nicely. Just be careful you don't end up with too tight a radius. There are a couple places on that track plan that appear to have a very tight radius in the photo.
The track you already have laid out on the industrial end of your layout looks like a good start towards duplicating that track plan. It looks like you have plenty of space to make it work. Its hard to tell, but it looks like there are a couple places on that track plan that have rather tight radius curves. I think you have enough space that you won't need to go as tight on the radius.
I would make a few modifications to that layout...
Instead of having the yard tracks bending up to the right (in the photo) why not keep them more in line with the yeard lead, and have them go down to the right. Straighter yard tracks are good, and I think these could even give you more yard track.
At that point, you could also extend the siding that is currently just around the inside of the curve, to go all the way across the straight section at the top, too. And maybe even more of the bottom.
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