12-11-2010, 02:52 PM
District Ave in Vernon is what I want to model as part of my ISL. The prototype has a bunch of industrial business to business suppliers on the North side of the street. Behind those companies is the A & B yards of the LAJ, and the switching lead/run around tracks. 5 spurs come off that lead in the next mile or 2 and go between those stores and cross District Ave to go into rail served industries. I'm still thinking of how to model it on a bench 2 feet wide by 9 feet long. I'm planning to put the railroad fairly high, but I would still need to reach over any structures to uncouple cars, so that limits how high I can make the bench work. If I make the buildings on the North side too narrow, I lose some of the illusion, but too wide and there isn't room for the rail served industries that are the reason for the layout to exist.