NEED SOME IDEAS FOR AN AREA OF MY LAYOUT

Alex,

 

I like your idea of having a place where passengers can get on and off and also have baggage being loaded and unloaded.

 

I also like the idea of having the sidings where cars could be prepped before going on the mainline. You could get a switcher that could move the cars into position and then the big mainline steamers could come in and take over and head out across the layout. Just like a real operation.

 

How about a staging area where the railroad would wash and clean the cars before staging them on the terminal tracks, could make for an interesting diorama.

Hi Alex,

 

How about a carriage washing facility? These are like a giant car automatic car-wash. 

Thanks all for some good idea's

ALEX

Hello Alex

 

     Check this link out for some station ideas. Some big some small but all good.

 

http://www.jcstudiosinc.com/BlogCategoryMain?catId=1

 

Ray Marion

Alex,

You could put some servicing facilities in also. Maybe a small sand tower and some platforms for fueling and servicing between some of the track.

 

Alan Graziano

Thanks Ray and Alan for your help

 

Thanks, Alex

Alex, lots of interest here in your idea for passenger train "head end" service, cleaning area, etc.  Other than simple passenger "coach yards", I'm not sure that what you have in mind has been modeled very often.   You might try researching prototypes like the Twentieth Century Limited,  or the Pullman Company yards,  for ideas on how these cars were serviced, depending on the era you're modeling.   If you'd care to follow up with what you end up doing, I think it would be pretty interesting.   Lots of freight yards out there, lots of passenger stations, very little of what you're considering.   Sorry, not much in the way of help, but lots of interest and encouragement.  Keep us posted!

 

Alex, is this a stub end passenger yard like the milwaukee (the only real RR to model) had or does it keep running through? Don

Here's one my favorite station scenes from Shorpy(http://www.shorpy.com/node/3086).

 

 

franktrain

 

Hey, Alex -

 

I really like frantrain's idea, above. And as has been suggested, a washing facilty may work well also.

  

 

 

Or even a mobile version . . .

 

Please, post some pictures when you finish the area; we know it will be very nicely done.

 

Alex

Here's a tinplate station scene on The Christmas Putz in The Lutheran Home at Topton, PA. Put pavement between the rails so baggage carts (loaded and unloaded) can go over the track(s).

 

A car washing facility is another good idea.

 

If you run steam, you could put a vertical water pipe where tenders stop at each end of the platforms.

 

Diesel fuel pipes are a variation. They take less space than the tank cars and hoses that franktrain posted. But that is a NEAT photo, one well worth modeling if space is available. 

Thanks hojack,Don, rattler21,franktrain,Alex, and Readingfan

for some great info. Everyone was so much help.

 

Don it's ends it doesn't go thru

Franktrain I think you hit the nail on the head with that photo

it looks just like what I want to do.

 

THANKS TO ALL FOR ALL THE HELP

ALEX

 

franktrain,

 

Do you know the location of this service facility?  I really like it.  Thank you.

Killian I thought this scene was beautiful, I already started to

model it. It's going to take a while, but it's a great scene.

 

THANKS, ALEX

Hey Alex,

 

I really like the picture Franktrain put up. Like we discussed today.

 

It's gonna look great!

 

Mike R

Alex, i see you are putting ballast on your RealTrax...how did that work out?

Any tips, tricks, or issues?

I need to do that as well in my old GCD yard.

Why don't you take some of those water towers you just bought

and fill them up with beverages. Remove one of the tracks and place

several of them in a row. Then when you have guest's they can pull the

s picket and get a refill from the water tower...

The yard can now service trains and guests...

Alex a great reference tool for what you are trying to model, is George Ellwell's Fallen Flag website www.rr-fallenflags.org . Its filled with thousands of photos for dozens of RR's even right there in Staten Island and has photos of equipment, buildings etc.

Hi Guys,

 

 This area is finished for a while now, Chipset wanted to know how the ballast turned out here's a few photo's. Chipset pretty easy to do no tricks I just poured the ballast on the track with a small paper cup and then sprayed it with Matte medium. These are some older photos, best I can do for now because we have no power.

 

Alex

Alex, what is "Matte Medium"?

Alex, how are you all doing with this storm. I see where you said you have no power. Do you have any damage? Do you have any pictures of the storm?

Hi roger, we are all ok, we have no power working off of a generator right now

very bad damage all around here.I don't have any photos because they told us that people were getting killed going outside. Some people around here were killed and badly hurt from trees hitting them.  

 

 

Alex

 

 

Ah thanks Alex!

Alex, I' glad you are doing well.  We were lucky and got our power back about 5:00pm today. 

 

Doug

 

Do you know the location of this service facility? 

That's Albuquerque.  Interestingly enough there is now a station available.

  

 

I thought about purchasing the station just to duplicate the picture.  I have an engine on order that will include the WWII shroud over the headlight.

 

Alex, I've been wondering about you, I'm glad to hear you are OK.  Take care.

Alex, I've been wondering about you, I'm glad to hear you are OK.  Take care.

 

 

Thanks Marker that's very kind of you.

 

Alex

Here's the passenger station area at the Gadsden Pacific Toy Train Museum. Note the entrances to the underground walkway between platforms. The second and third photos are newer than the first, taken after the row of building fronts was added.