Industries

 

I have chosen several different industries for each of the towns on the layout.   At the junction there will be a furniture company on the left, a produce and canning company at the center top, and a meat packing company in the middle of the wye.   There will also be a team track on the first spur off of the yard lead, and engine house at the bottom center and engine servicing facilities on opposite facing spur from the yard.

The town at the end of the line will have a cement plant, brewery, building supply company, fuel oil supply company, a warehouse and a team track.  The cement plant will be at the left end of the town.   

For the middle town the industries will be a stock yard at the lower left corner, a lumber company at the lower right, a fuel oil company, warehouse, a feed and grain company, and a team track.

All three staging tracks are longer than 16 feet.

Track plan lower level

 The following is the initial track plan design for the lower level of the layout.   This includes the three-track staging yard at the bottom of the image, the interchange junction at the top, the end of the line at the bottom above the staging yard and the two lift-outs for the lower level.   The lift out section at the right may be two separate parts since the track from the loop area the terminus is on an opposite slope of the one leading to staging. 

The two main parts of the layout are three feet deep and sixteen feed long and the upper part has about another two feet of additional depth for the loops.   There is a four-foot opening between the two halves.  As previously posted the main has a minimum radius of 30 inches.   When I start laying track, I will attempt to adjust the wye so that it has a larger radius.

The upper section with the middle town, which will be above the staging yard has not been finalized at this time.   I hope to fit all the terminus structures and tracks into an 18-inch-deep area leaving the same depth for the upper-level middle town.  The two lift out sections connecting the upper level will be above the lift out sections connecting the staging yard.  These may be joined to the lift outs for the staging yard.