01-18-2021, 10:24 PM
(01-18-2021, 09:17 PM)BR60103 Wrote: Is it possible to make a separate room(s) for the sump pump and the breaker box? That would remove the temptation to build layout over and around them.
No furnace? Water heater?
The sump pump is in the one space with nothing built in it, so i am a little forced to share the area with it. That said, I think things can be done to avoid making it inaccessible. The circuit breakers are technically "in the next room" on the bottom right hand wall of the diagram.
The diagram does not show the whole basement. In this case, the hot water heater and furnace are on the other side of the basement from the planned layout area, in what would be the bottom left. I didn't represent it since it is what I would consider "out of bounds".
Also, there are no clear measurements of my basement. I am reasonably confident that its about 41' across, maybe 42', but this is based on measuring the basement in segments. Certain objects, like the stairs, shelves, "walls" and my 4x8 layout table are for sure since I could measure those then define them as shapes in the program I'm using.
Quote:I operate (when there's no Corvid) on a friend's layout. My description is "A train set in its time plays many parts". We have 6 or 8 numbered trains that depart the station as one train (10:10 to Manchester) and return as another (2:15 parcels from London). It then departs as ... We have 2 mainline trains and 2 local/suburban/commuter trains and some others. Operation is changing locos and turning around any one-directional cars.
I was kind of hoping to get away with maybe having two layouts in one, an ISL kind of layout attached to a "continuous" mainline layout. It would be prototypical for an eastbound freight to drop a cut of cars for the yard and pick up a cut of outbound cars, but that would be the only connection.
Modeling New Jersey Under the Wire 1978-1979.