Upper Deck Track Plan

 

Well the train shed construction has been postponed once again. The builder had a death in the family. So we are pushed it back again.In the mean time I have the next draft of the upper deck. This entire deck is a single town (Sandpoint Idaho) along with exposed staging on the bottom wall. I have a 24x 32 foot space and still had to leave out several rail served industries in a town of 3800 at the time I model. I tried to avoid duck unders but just could not squeeze in what I wanted without them. It is tough trying to do three railroads all approaching and leaving town from different directions. Some large industries such as the LP Planing mill were served by all three of them. Try to keep things in generally the right order made it difficult if not impossible to eliminate the duck unders entirely. I thing I will say on those is that the upper deck is at 61 inches track level. The duck unders are at 3/4 inch plywood at 60 inches in height. I had the same heights in my previous house and that seemed to work. Aisles are 40 to 47 inches. The only exception is in front of the NP depot where it drops to 38 inches for about a 3 foot length. If anyone is wondering nothing is on most of the left wall because that wall has a window the entry door, and the HVAC unit taking up much of it. The HVAC is on the 10 foot ceiling about in the middle of the wall.

 

Again any feed back is appreciated.

Revised Lower DeckTrack Plan

 

I took a vacation day on my birthday last month. I took the day and went over to Metaline Falls and Ione to see what was left of the Milwaukee Road/Pend Oreille Valley Railroad short line. As a result I made some changes to my HO scale version of those areas. The main change was removing the POVA shops at Usk as these are interesting but to late for my era of interest. I got to see the foundation of the old engine house at Metaline Falls and added that. A few other things were rearranged in order to fit that change the track plan to a more closely math what was the arrangement of the prototype yard. Still not 100% accurate but it what I can fit in. I hope to post the upper deck track plan soon.

Delivery of material for Train Shed

 

They delivered the materials for my train shed the other day. For those who may be wondering the rear wheels of the truck actually came off the ground at one point. So the truck was entirely supported by the end of the tilt bed and the front wheels. This is going to be a post and beam type structure. It will be 24x44 feet. The train room will be 24x32 with the remaining 24X12 being storage. They say it will take 4 to 5 days to build once they start. The build has been rescheduled a couple of times due to weather and COVID issues with the builder's crew. They hope to start next week. They will build the main building then I will need to build the inside walls.Then there is electrical, HVAC, insulation drywall etc the I will complete. Hopefully the benchwork will start to go up by the end January.