08-06-2010, 02:27 PM
I've actually made the decision and am 100% sure that I am switching to N scale.
A small HO shelf layout will be kept down at my Dad's. I have a track plan developed for a layout that I recently decided upon. Before, with HO, I had wanted to be able to model late steam operations on a coal-hauling shortline that managed to muscle through the Depression, but was starting to die in the early '40s.
It's loosely based on most coal hauling in states along and near the Eastern Seaboard, as well as the East Broad Top.
Pretty soon, I'm going to start working on a coal tipple, in addition to the roundhouse(which needs to be started still), and the coal hoppers replacing the coal tipple at the mine at the farthest end of the line. The only other industry aside from coal along the line is a bark shipping point, and a freight house in the town that ships the bark for shipping misc. items.
Can't wait to get started. I'll post a progress thread soon.
A small HO shelf layout will be kept down at my Dad's. I have a track plan developed for a layout that I recently decided upon. Before, with HO, I had wanted to be able to model late steam operations on a coal-hauling shortline that managed to muscle through the Depression, but was starting to die in the early '40s.
It's loosely based on most coal hauling in states along and near the Eastern Seaboard, as well as the East Broad Top.
Pretty soon, I'm going to start working on a coal tipple, in addition to the roundhouse(which needs to be started still), and the coal hoppers replacing the coal tipple at the mine at the farthest end of the line. The only other industry aside from coal along the line is a bark shipping point, and a freight house in the town that ships the bark for shipping misc. items.
Can't wait to get started. I'll post a progress thread soon.