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Re: (erielack) Layout Planning-Phase 2
Gosh, Ed, it is kind of hard to know where to begin. Personally, I think John Armstrong had the right idea when he talked about formulating a list of "givens" and "druthers." What do you want to accomplish? What is going to motivate you to keep building your model railroad? What is going to make you happy? What do you think will be fun? What do you think you absolutely must have on your layout and what could you live without? What compromises are you willing to make or not? I think givens and druthers are a good place to start.
I wanted to model the EL mainline in the Srn Tier, but my space is only 255 square feet (and "T" shaped at that). I decided that I couldn't live with all the tight radius curves that I would need to fit the mainline around the wall of the "T", so I scrapped that idea and went with a branch line/short line deal. The EL Wayland Branch and the Bath & Hammondsport to be precise. (Mike Schafer to the rescue!)
That aside, you can go with whatever you like if you can live with it. As for the "proto-freelancing" idea, I've always thought that styles of station architecture and signal systems and types of ballast are what give a particular railroad its character. One neat idea that I have kicked around in my head is what if the Erie had actually built that grade reduction project that would have connected the Honesdale Branch to the Jeff Division as its new main line.
If you want to continue off-list, I'm fine with that.
- -pat moore
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From: "Joanne and Edward Barry" <barry339_@_comcast.net>
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Group-Once again my call goes out to all of you for your help and suggestion as
I move from dreaming of a layout to actually sitting down and physically
planning a layout-yes the attic is finally clean enough to actually begin the
initial stages-go back and forth between modeling an actual portion of the EL
that will "fit" into roughly a 12' x 22' space or creating sort of a free lance
version of the EL.My question is-If I go with a free lance type layout what
signature industries,structures,features,etc. would you include? What are the
"must haves" and the things that would say EL merely by seeing them? Would
appreciate any help,comments,input that those of you out there who are much more
experienced at this than I am would have. As always thanks in advance for your
> input and help.
>
> Ed Barry
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