Hi people
welcome to my little build called the Sommerville Subdivision . It's a factious sub of CP rail .
It is designed to be a Out and Back with a interchange and small yard . This is a N Scale build . Code 80 Peco track thruout . Will be painted and ballasted to minimize the track height and tie spacing ect . However , I am going to treat the track in doing so to make it into a scenic element in the larger scheme of things . Get what I mean ?
There is going to be 4 rail served main customers on it (at this time) , with a Quarry being the main one .
Small shopping/light industrial area on one side and the Quarry on the other .
I have never done any kind of town area before, but I am looking to get my hands dirty and try it out .
Now this will be a single operator layout based on a hollow core door , but expanded to 44 1/2" wide to 94" long .
I will have a couple of real challenges to overcome on the functions of running it, based on the hollow core door and foam thickness . I have some ideas about those challenges and mostly it involves cordless throttles use .
To begin with it won't have JMRI hooked up to it . Just my NCE system . But that will change very quickly, I have my laptop and all the gear to hookup my NCE system to it for JMRI .
I will have basically 3 power district's. One with the yard , interchange , yard lead , and engine area . Then one for the reversing section and any sidings off that section . And finally one for the mains and any sidings off them . All hooked up to DCC Specialties circuit breakers and AR/circuit breaker for the reversing section . I quite like how DCC Specialties equipment works and it reliability.
in the past
I had just finished up a nice around the room with a peninsula benchwork , started on building a 8' long Paper Mill . Well that no sooner had the glue dry on the benchwork , and the final chapter of a Ex wife caused me losing my house . Not to go into it , but the guy always walks away with nothing but debt and bad memories lol . I am no different .
so not knowing the future , I tore it all out and went with this layout cause I could move it pretty much anywhere . As it turns out I have a nice area for it in the new place , and I can operate and build it with full walk around access , that worked out well .
Here is where I am at as of now , most of the track is down except industry, yard track has been painted . That doesn't show in these pics , but it is done . The track is all powered and tested quite a bit , with the exception of about half a dozen more feeders to add in the track sections in crossovers .
very is all going to be moved to the new house next weekend on the 29th . It will stay dormant for most of June as we setup the new place . Then I will make up the lighting for the layout and get it back up in place .
Pic time
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Here is the plan that I used and modified . It is a openly posted plan by Byron Henderson from his website
https://www.layoutvision.com
so that's where I am today . I'm still learning as I go , lots of things on this layout will be firsts for me . But I'm a big fan of this hobby and love building .
Thanks
Steve
welcome to my little build called the Sommerville Subdivision . It's a factious sub of CP rail .
It is designed to be a Out and Back with a interchange and small yard . This is a N Scale build . Code 80 Peco track thruout . Will be painted and ballasted to minimize the track height and tie spacing ect . However , I am going to treat the track in doing so to make it into a scenic element in the larger scheme of things . Get what I mean ?
There is going to be 4 rail served main customers on it (at this time) , with a Quarry being the main one .
Small shopping/light industrial area on one side and the Quarry on the other .
I have never done any kind of town area before, but I am looking to get my hands dirty and try it out .
Now this will be a single operator layout based on a hollow core door , but expanded to 44 1/2" wide to 94" long .
I will have a couple of real challenges to overcome on the functions of running it, based on the hollow core door and foam thickness . I have some ideas about those challenges and mostly it involves cordless throttles use .
To begin with it won't have JMRI hooked up to it . Just my NCE system . But that will change very quickly, I have my laptop and all the gear to hookup my NCE system to it for JMRI .
I will have basically 3 power district's. One with the yard , interchange , yard lead , and engine area . Then one for the reversing section and any sidings off that section . And finally one for the mains and any sidings off them . All hooked up to DCC Specialties circuit breakers and AR/circuit breaker for the reversing section . I quite like how DCC Specialties equipment works and it reliability.
in the past
I had just finished up a nice around the room with a peninsula benchwork , started on building a 8' long Paper Mill . Well that no sooner had the glue dry on the benchwork , and the final chapter of a Ex wife caused me losing my house . Not to go into it , but the guy always walks away with nothing but debt and bad memories lol . I am no different .
so not knowing the future , I tore it all out and went with this layout cause I could move it pretty much anywhere . As it turns out I have a nice area for it in the new place , and I can operate and build it with full walk around access , that worked out well .
Here is where I am at as of now , most of the track is down except industry, yard track has been painted . That doesn't show in these pics , but it is done . The track is all powered and tested quite a bit , with the exception of about half a dozen more feeders to add in the track sections in crossovers .
very is all going to be moved to the new house next weekend on the 29th . It will stay dormant for most of June as we setup the new place . Then I will make up the lighting for the layout and get it back up in place .
Pic time
image widget
Here is the plan that I used and modified . It is a openly posted plan by Byron Henderson from his website
https://www.layoutvision.com
Thanks
Steve
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