On Jan 25, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Bob Werre wrote:
> Next if you want long cars and want to
> pull them into a train shed attached to a union station (aka Kansas
> City, Chicago, St. Louis etc.) you will need 20-40 feet on a layout.
> So
> at this point if one were to have a large or medium sized passenger
> station and some kind of simple circle around it, we are talking
> perhaps
> 40 foot in total length.
Bob,
When I was building a layout in my attic I found a trackplan that fit,
and did all the freight things I wanted. It was sadly lacking in the
passenger department, but I learned to embrace my limitations and move
forward. Well, I moved so far forward that I moved into a different
house. The basement appeared so spacious at first that I started
planning the passenger station of my dreams. I figured I could fit
Harrisburg into 16 liner feet, but what I really had trouble with was
the twenty feet of track I'd need on each end to store trains. Trying
to wrangle 12 tracks around a curve wasn't an easy prospect either. To
make a long story short, I packed up my layout and moved it out to
Richmond, Indiana. This was the PRR's second city of passenger car
switching. It should work on a number of levels, no pun intended,
because I light my upper level with daylight florescent tubes that run
right behind the valance. The part of the layout that is built is
three feet deep and it seems well lit. I am a bit worried about the
shadow cast by the grain elevator though.
As for consist books, the PRR ones I have are very specific about the
consist of trains, mail trains included, right down to which way the
RPO's were to face (anyone know why?), and the consist on many mail
trains changed depending on the day of the week. There was even some
attempt to specify what some of the express cars carried such as
"Newsweek" for example.
Jamie
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