CP Scarborough Harbor Branch Line - HO Scale

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Thanks Gents. I appreciate the kind words and encouragement. I started working on getting some feeders in tonight, but after about an hour or so, my heart just wasn't in it. So decided to snap off a few pictures just to give the over all impression of the layout progress. You'll have to pardon the mess...it was clean before I started working... :oops:





Looking at the East wing of the layout you can see the large harbour area. Starting at the bottom is the roadbed for one industry siding awaiting the installation of wood ties and track. immediately to the right of that is spur track (I like to think that it goes somewhere else further off layout.) Following the track up is RH t.o. switch # 13 (lucky eh!), which goes into a 15 car siding. Along the "main" or middle track are switch #'s 12 & # 11. These will service industries for the layout. A little further up you can see a piece of unpainted Homasote roadbed. I was debating whether or not to include this orignal piece of track in the plan, and decided this weekend that I would. Switch # 14, not yet installed will provide the means to switch for this siding. Both tracks will service one large industry. The six beer cans at the far back are there to represent the brewery that will occupy that spur. For those with good eyes, there is a beer called "Devil's Pale Ale 666" made by a local brewery. I didn't like it. Too bad really as I like to support local brewers. I pan on lettering a couple of refrigerator cars specifically for the brewery with local brew fonts and logos. Steam Whistle and Mill St. are also on the top of my list....but I digress...




Lastly, around the bend, looking at the West end at the very top you can see the Brewery. Following the track downward is the double x-over, which based on my "play-time" with the locos is getting a great deal of use. Perfect. The track at the far left will double as a yard lead for switch the harbour as well as pulling freight off the float. It will also act as a way for the engines to get to the future site of my Engine Shop. In the second photo you can see a piece of rail sticking out to the left of the steamer. That is switch # 19, which will service the Engine Shop. Continuing downward on the right is another double track industry siding which will service another large industry and lastly the siding to the left of the middle or main track. The stack of books in the first couple photos actually gave me some inspiration to perhaps model a small to medium sized pulp and paper / lumber mill on the layout and use these two long siding for it. It would be a neat way to get flat cars or logs on the layout and spot cars with finished lumber product for shipping off the layout.

So many ideas...

Here's to staying motivated!