I have a layout question. There are three images below of the left side of my layout: one distant, two closer up, showing a locomotive storage area and a lumber operation.
I've laid the track for all except the lumber area. I've done some research but would like to get your input on the track in this area. I imagine logs coming in on flat cars from the right side of the layout from behind the locomotive building and being backed into lumber area.
Would there need to be separate areas for off-loading the timber and loading the processed lumber, chips, etc.? Or would the big gravel area be sufficient and let fork lifts and bob cats sort things out? Or is this a bad plan from the jump?
By the way, the layout is on a one inch piece of foam board. The lumber operation sits above the layout on another 1" piece of foam board. The outer loop is a 3% incline to the mountain on the other half of the layout. The incline begins in the bottom curve, rises one inch, then flattens enough for the turnout into the industry, then continues up the mountain to its 4.5" top.
Thanks for any input you can offer!
I've laid the track for all except the lumber area. I've done some research but would like to get your input on the track in this area. I imagine logs coming in on flat cars from the right side of the layout from behind the locomotive building and being backed into lumber area.
Would there need to be separate areas for off-loading the timber and loading the processed lumber, chips, etc.? Or would the big gravel area be sufficient and let fork lifts and bob cats sort things out? Or is this a bad plan from the jump?
By the way, the layout is on a one inch piece of foam board. The lumber operation sits above the layout on another 1" piece of foam board. The outer loop is a 3% incline to the mountain on the other half of the layout. The incline begins in the bottom curve, rises one inch, then flattens enough for the turnout into the industry, then continues up the mountain to its 4.5" top.
Thanks for any input you can offer!