RW&C
N Scale with Stone Tools
Hello All,
I haven't done much train-related stuff lately, partly from finances, and partly from having so much other stuff to do. Anyway, I was tearing apart a printer the other night and I started thinking, this sliding bit would make a great transfer table.
Here's what I built. Only the wood deck will show in the final product.
Can't just have a table and no layout, so I'm going to make a little (maybe 1' by 3' or 4', because that's about how much blue foam I have) switching layout out of the stuff I've got lying around: the transfer table, some flex track, one #6 RH, some buildings, and... well, that's about it, actually. Here's my go at a track plan (not to scale, radii to be eyeballed later):
The spurs from the table, top to bottom: empty (for engine storage or temporarily spotting a car that's in the way), full coal hoppers, coal hopper filling (still trying to animate the coal mine), and a fourth spur to a truck depot.
My question to you... does this layout look workable? Entertaining? I want this to be a little challenging, but not Sudoku challenging, something I could hand a friend the controls and say, have a go.
Also, just for giggles... I wanted to see if I could build a switch motor out of junk. I call it the Redneck Tortoise.
I haven't done much train-related stuff lately, partly from finances, and partly from having so much other stuff to do. Anyway, I was tearing apart a printer the other night and I started thinking, this sliding bit would make a great transfer table.
Here's what I built. Only the wood deck will show in the final product.
Can't just have a table and no layout, so I'm going to make a little (maybe 1' by 3' or 4', because that's about how much blue foam I have) switching layout out of the stuff I've got lying around: the transfer table, some flex track, one #6 RH, some buildings, and... well, that's about it, actually. Here's my go at a track plan (not to scale, radii to be eyeballed later):
The spurs from the table, top to bottom: empty (for engine storage or temporarily spotting a car that's in the way), full coal hoppers, coal hopper filling (still trying to animate the coal mine), and a fourth spur to a truck depot.
My question to you... does this layout look workable? Entertaining? I want this to be a little challenging, but not Sudoku challenging, something I could hand a friend the controls and say, have a go.
Also, just for giggles... I wanted to see if I could build a switch motor out of junk. I call it the Redneck Tortoise.