HO 80s/90s CSX, NS, & Conrail layout resurrection.

[Mini Me]

I would love to have that much space for a fiddle yard.....glad you were able to save some of it. :thumb2:

[Strenko J]

Very very glad to see some of it still stuck with you..

[Guest]

Oh to have all that room , mind you said that every workshop I had and still managed to fill them to the brim .
Agree with Tim about the layout size and how it would make a great fiddle yard.

[minitnkr]

Well, it got to me as the electrical is pretty messed up since I cut half of it away. I'm going to turn the corner with this big piece & go along the wall with the other two & a third piece is planned.
The "corner".

The big piece to fill the "corner". It will contain a siding & the brick factory.

These, from the top, are two runaround sidings & the mainline continued from the industrial area.

Unsure where all this will end up. Suggestions welcomed.

[Guest]

Thought you'd sold the whole train layout Paul, will be interesting to see how you tackle this . Many here don't have much room to have a complete circuit and run point to point .

[minitnkr]

It'll be point to point Dzohn, at least in the short term.

[boatman]

ITS Brilliant PaulE TO see you back on th railrd lets see more lovely pic
chrisb

[Tim Marlow]

Good to see this back on the blocks :thumb2:
Point to point is a good arrangement Paul. It’s the go to solution for the UK exhibition circuit model railways, usually called a terminus to fiddle yard layout. In fact, I would say roundy roundys are relatively rare in the UK due to space concerns. There should be loads of inspiration around if you have a look through that world…..the best advice I can give is don’t try to shoehorn in too much. The railway needs room to breath in the baseboard area. There are ways of looking at this rather than building a station. If you are primarily interested in rolling stock, build some sort of marshalling yard (switching yard in your terminology I think?). If your interest is locomotives, build an engine shed. If you are interested in line side industry, build one of those, etc……you are limited in space, so focus the railway you build on the bit that really interests you. No point in wasting space on things that you don’t really get much from. As always, have fun……

[boatman]

YES Tim you are right so go for it PaulE
CHRISB

[Jim R]

Well Paul I missed this totally but just had a catch up. A really interesting read and then the bombshell of it getting taken down and sold.
A bit like a phoenix now, rising from the ashes. It will be nice to see how this develops.

[minitnkr]

....for the second time.

[minitnkr]

Work progresses apace.


Lee. tractor converted to demo truck

[scottie3158]

Good to see this resurrected, I will follow along.

[boatman]

SO WILL I
Chrisb

[minitnkr]

Roughing in location of factory & track. Leaves opportunity for additional industry.