Stein's Minneapolis Warehouse district 1957 (HO)

[steinjr]

In the third picture,are you planning on running track under the building? That would be neat looking.

Kinda - this is how I plan to run the tracks in that area:



Left to right:
- New York Eggs and Butter (Red building with grey concrete "skeleton") and Great Northern Stationary (building with covered loading dock)
- Track under the road overpass to the North Star Mill Company
- Track to the elevator (and back to the main)
- Mainline (leftmost track on raised road bed)
- Milling Siding (rightmost track on raised road bed).

After dithering a bit on the issue, I have decided to run the tracks in the warehouse district directly on the foam, instead of on a raised track bed.

I have also considered whether to do another building for the freight house at the far left of the milling district, and have the track go into the bulding, instead of behind the building. I'll have to experiment a little with building shapes to see what I can come up with here.

Overview of this area on the latest updated track plan (plan 66c):



I still hope to caulk down the last risers and track bed tomorrow, and hopefully also start laying some mainline track.

If I get the time to do it - the traveling cinema is coming to our little town junior high school gym tomorrow (it comes about once a month), and the kids want me to take them to see an animated movie in the afternoon, my "kid" brother (who is getting to be a middle aged man :-) wanted me to come along for a workout at the other gym around lunch time, and my sister has been invited over for dinner tomorrow night.

We'll see how much time gets left over for work on the layout. Hopefully an hour or two in the morning, at least.

Smile,
Stein