Little bit of room whole lotta questions

Gumstump?????

Rick

Rick,

The Gumstump and Snowshoe Railroad was a famous point-to-point design by Chuck Yungkurth, a frequent contributor to model railroad publications. This layout design is found in Kalmbach's layout books. Has always been one of my favorites.

It's a neat design with steep grades and tight clearances.

Thunder,

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with along these lines. Atlas is one of the major suppliers of 2-rail locos, rolling stock and track supplies these days.

Jim

Thanks Jim! I have heard a lot of good things about Atlas and am looking into some stuff from them. I will keep you all updated!

I believe the Gumstumpt needs very short locomotives (i.e. tank locos or "critters"). Have you checked out Carl Arendt's site? It has lots of great ideas for layouts in small spaces, including O Gauge and even some G gauge stuff.

http://www.carendt.com/index.html

Cheers,

Ken

OGR ran an article about 10 years ago with a 2 rail layout based on Gumstump.  Check the index.  The size however was 11.5 feet by 2 feet.  I suppose you could wrap around the wall a bit but the radius will be tight.  2 rail in a tight space will work if you limit the curves to less than 30 degrees with a tight radius and you keep the rolling stock and locos small.  For me that means Weaver or Atlas 40 ft boxcars and an  Atlas SW switcher.  Had to get rid of the Weaver RS-3, just did not fit properly.