While there I met up with two friends who are planning to build layouts that will join onto PnC. We had a planning session and have come up with a scheme that should prove quite interesting to watch and operate.
The junction has disappeared from the trackplan on PnC, but the rest of it will remain the same (just have to finalise how much of a curve it will sit on). This was done to allow more free space on the layout, having that extra line was just that bit 'too far'. So, the intention now is for PnC to act as the end of the layout, coupled to this will be an 8' wide, 6' deep glen scene which the line will travel up one side of and down the other. On this module (if you can call it a module being that big!) will be a passing loop and stabling siding for a banking loco. The banker will be needed to assist locos climbing the 3" from one side of the glen to the other, a challenge if we run long trains! Finally the last module before the fiddle yard looks like it will be a contractors yard and staging point for a major construction scheme. This is heavily inspired by Fersit from the Lochaber Railway. The intention of this site is to represent something major being constructed (like a pipeline) and spoil being removed from this site, taken to the dock at PnC and tipped into the puffer.
So, these additions to the layout should make it very interesting to operate, and allow someone at an exhibition to follow a train along around 20-30' of layout!
I don't anticipate any changes to the trackplan from now on, so now i've just got to decide construction methods for the baseboard and plan that... then I can begin! It's looking likely to be either a ply frame with blue foam centre, or a ply frame with chicken wire over formers... both will be light, but i'll have to work out shapes etc. to check which is best suited to the trackplan.
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Tom.
Great post thank yoou
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