Hello fellow railroaders.
For years I've been toying with layout ideas based on a few layouts found in an occasional nice layout in GREAT MODEL RAILROADS and recently I've been checking out layouts in the O SCALE RESOURCE MAGAZINE.
I like a 32'x58' layout in the July/August 2017 Issue of O Scale Resource&also another 15'9"x41'8" layout in the Jan/Feb 2018 Issue of the same mag. I have a 50'ft lengthx25' width with a furnace &water equipment with the water equipment taking up a good 5'x15' on the 50ft length on the southside of my layout area.
I'm concentrating on heavy industrial switching on the entire layout,while keeping room for 2 side by side mainline tracks at some point in the layouts future,but I'm thinking of possibly having 1 mainline for now with a passing track.
The era is modern,having rolling stock&diesels from mostly 1990-today,with some rolling stock going back to the late '70s.
1.Industries to be modeled are 1or2 grain elevators,
2. A fertilizer facility receiving 4750 cvd hoppers of dry fertilizer&anhydrous ammonia tankers,
3. A paper factory possibly making boxes,also,
4.A soft drink facility receiving tankers of corn syrup,
5. A foam production factory receiving tankers of chemicals and possibly shipping out loaded boxcars of foam bales,
8. A lumber facility receiving bulkhead flats and center beam lumber cars.
The mainline radius I'm planning on using is 50" on main lines or 54" at tops.
So far I have ideas but the area I have seems like it's still too small for the industries desired. Grain trains will be 9-10 cars in length not counting motive power. Local freights will be 1 or 2 GP-40s or 38s.
This is just a rough outline but am looking for ideas in magazines or just ideas from fellow modelers. Models range about 1 layout out of all the rest in an issue of Great Model Railroads,so my research material seems limited. As you gentlemen know,the models in modeling magazines are few compared to the layout ideas in other scales.
Many thanks to all in advance, for all your help and ideas.
As Always,
Al Hummel
