12-16-2013, 04:01 PM
Good progress over the weekend.
Final tracks at the distillery end, I still have the option to add a removable staging track to represent the continuation of he branch if I feel the need for more inbound traffic.
At the dock end, I finally decided to go with a 3 track car-float for several reasons:
Three tracks gives a more interesting load/unload operation.
Greater car capacity, as it will be the only 'staging', at least initially.
The N&W's Detroit car-floats were 3 track.
Due to lack of space, I had to have the switches leading to the car-float infringing onto the 'apron', the N&W's were back from the 'apron', leaving 3 straight tracks through the apron, but at least I didn't have to have the switches intruding onto the car-float as on the Walthers model.
That said, all tracks through the 'apron' and onto the car-float itself are laid, including the storage spur for the barrier fat cars!
I also had time to build up the deck of the car-float around and between the tracks, a job I'm glad to have done! Hopefully I can get the hull cladding done this week, then I just need to define all the details I need to add.
Cheers,
Kev
Final tracks at the distillery end, I still have the option to add a removable staging track to represent the continuation of he branch if I feel the need for more inbound traffic.
At the dock end, I finally decided to go with a 3 track car-float for several reasons:
Three tracks gives a more interesting load/unload operation.
Greater car capacity, as it will be the only 'staging', at least initially.
The N&W's Detroit car-floats were 3 track.
Due to lack of space, I had to have the switches leading to the car-float infringing onto the 'apron', the N&W's were back from the 'apron', leaving 3 straight tracks through the apron, but at least I didn't have to have the switches intruding onto the car-float as on the Walthers model.
That said, all tracks through the 'apron' and onto the car-float itself are laid, including the storage spur for the barrier fat cars!
I also had time to build up the deck of the car-float around and between the tracks, a job I'm glad to have done! Hopefully I can get the hull cladding done this week, then I just need to define all the details I need to add.
Cheers,
Kev
Such is life