Lee, Are you working the full scale drawings on top of the bench work? And roadbed?
My current layout was the first one in S for me and I used my scale drawing to create full size plans using large sheets of drawing paper attached to lots of foam core sheets. I had to Dothan because the train area was not available, so this method allowed me to "build" a paper layout in sections and assemble the part in the room available. I agree that using fullscale templates is a great way to finalize your plan Terry Dillon On Nov 4, 2012, at 11:13 AM, [email protected] wrote: > I finished the last of the full-size track layout this weekend. This involved > solving a problem near the Extract Plant at the south end of town (caused by > a decision a few months ago to expand the staging yard at the south end from > three to four tracks). All track and turnouts are now marked and ready to > lay/ I celebrated by gluing down a bunch of ties. > > The remainder of the major buildings were also traced on the layout, and I > already can see a potential for improvement on the siding that leads to the > PRR freight station. This is the area between the EBT station and the > Harbison Walker brick plant -- five city blocks in real life that need to > become two truncated blocks on the layout. > > Basically the improvement is going to be to rearrange the industrial > buildings along the siding so that the busiest have the greatest share of the > 5-car siding. (They are the chair factory, the freight house platform and > team track area, and the Atlantic Refining Co. bulk plant, currently, but I > am also thinking a swap in their order there may help.) The whole area > requires some more thinking. The templates really help to visualize it. > > Lee Rainey > >
