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Soo Line Yamaska subdivision
And the Winner is...
Version 8
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If you click the Cadrail version, it will allow you to run a train on the mainline using Runrail
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| Construction Phase One | Construction when completed |
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| Cadrail <.crw> main line only | Staging yard |
After exploring several ways to use the small space I have, this 8th and final version appears to me as the better one and the one that will satisfy most of my wishes for a so called dream layout.
I like operations with car cards and schedules with set outs and pick ups, assembling trains in yards. Sometimes however I will enjoy just sitting back watching a train or two run endlessly. I can get all of this in this layout.
This version 8 is a folded dog bone with a 145 feet long main line. (Excluding two 30inch radius helixes which account for a lot of extra feet)
The main yard is Cardigan Jct. Which will be serviced by the engine yard in Fond-du-Lac. I own a lithograph of Cardigan junction by John Cartwright. I hope to reproduce the lithograph HO scale with both locomotives.
Below the table is a four track staging yard. two tracks are the East bound Winnipeg yard. Two tracks are the Sault-Ste-Marie west bound yard. The fifth track is the mainline.
At this level are the RIP track and the DCC programming track.
Turnouts #s have not been determined. As a rule I will try not go under #6 for the main line and no less than #5s for the industries and yards. No easements in any of the curves have been drawn. Minimum mainline radius is 26. inches, some are 18'' in industrial areas, most are 30". Each square represents one foot.
This is a first draft subject to change without notice as they say. For now, tracks will be Code 83 flextracks on the main lines and code 70 on all secondary tracks. Code 100 will be used for the staging area. I just might try my luck at handlaying tracks. I will do a module and if I get good at it, the rest of the layout will be handlaid.
I will work out elevations, switch locations and numbers as I refine the drawing.
A NCE Wireless DCC is planned to run this layout.
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