Building the Potomac Line

[P5se Camelback]

... I am going to start with an industrial portion of the layout that I found online and just fell in love with. The original is called the Third Street Industrial and can be found here. http://www.westportterminal.de/thirdstreet.html
Dave

PuddleJumper Dave ...

I like it! I actually used the "Third Street Industrial" as the basis for what was to be Berwyck, the second traveling West from the Terminus of Avoca on the layout I was building in my basement up in Pennsylvania, prior to taking everything apart to leave a clean basement for the family I sold the house to. The Third St. section was the part of the basement empire that was the farthest along and it was saved and wrapped in bubble wrap to preserve the handlaid track and built-in-place turnouts - the products of more than a couple evenings in the basement with ties and rails and spikes and a trio of track gauges. I did have power to it through a pair of wires with alligator clips to the bus that connected to drops (from each rail section) and was able to switch the occasional box car, but mostly I just liked watching the train snake through the crossover near the crossing on the right hand end of the module.



I would vote for a one track line with passing sidings at logical intervals ... that is how I was treating it and how I will approach it as I try to work this one section that I still have into my current plans. I think it's an interesting track arrangement that should provide some fun swithing/operational situations once built. Plus ... a single track main looks like it's longer than a double track main does.

I say ... GO FOR IT ... have fun!