Trackage To Be Modeled

Preliminary drawing before adding Google Earth to land area

A Cool Photo

To make up for misspelling Duesenberg, here is a very nice photo:

Train Derailment in the Bronx

The following are Google Earth pictures of the New York Metropolitan Area with the railroads box checked (under transportation which is under more) to emphasize the location of the tracks and, perforce, obscure their appearance.  The interested viewer can find the same pictures with the box unchecked as in the last picture (Sunnyside Yards) before the Grand Central Station track plans from the Age of Glory.

Grand Central Station Track Plans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Terminal

   



A simpler version of my first Winrail X2 track plan

I got rail joiners, but need Atlas code 55 flex track.

Here is my first Winrail X2 track plan consisting of the four free-mo N modules plus end pieces, one loop and one wye.

My Free-Mo N modules need rail joiners and flex track.

Or

And, now, for something much more like the usual thing ....

Here is a show version of the ship channel compex of Free-Mo N modules that can actually be built.

In particular, despite the narrow aisles between the side modules, these industrial sidings can begin to be populated with roads, vehicles, structures, industrial equipment such as distilation columns, reactors, storage tanks, pipe racks, and miscellaneous junk.

This is more like a show layout with additional modules by others.

I know I should have less track and more industry on the side modules; but, I like the track drawn by Winrail so much that I hate to delete it.

This is close to my final track plan for this fastasy stand-alone ship channel complex incorporating Free-Mo N.

The next drawing features an even larger ship display table just to see if i can do it.  I would like to extend the waterfront to the entire upper edge of the layout.

I am not sure where the cross-overs belong.

And here is a new version of the ship channel complex.

Here is the giant snowplow.

The water can be on a large table without tracks.

Or Wyes

Adding End Loops

Why Not Convert RH Switches to LH Switches?

A change to effect continuous operation

Fewer Switches

The Day after the LSR Division 8 Meeting, the NWX Swap Meet, and the N' Crowd Visit

The stand-alone version of the ship channeel module is changed again:

Slightly more reasonable

This track plan incorporating the Free-moN modules really belongs in the fantasy model railroading category:

Eight yards up close: