Hey everyone! I wanted to give a short little update. My bias towards action didn't pan out as I wanted back in April because of some competing priorities with our house and life in general.
I also have completely scrapped my track plan. I think, for my first permanent layout, I was getting a bit too ambitious and my sizing requirements kept stretching to the point the CFO of the house said, "you're taking up too much of the basement" haha. I bought the new OGR book on track plans and found one that literally offers me what I was looking for and is expandable to use my space better. Huge shout out to @Ken-Oscale for putting all of these together! I've been looking at his plans for awhile now, but never stumbled across this one. I'm going to follow the plans for "The Southern & Pacific RR." It fits the 16ft wall I originally had been planning on, and will give me room to move around it. I'll modify some of it since I'll have a city on the left hand side, but I'm going to keep the small sidings and what not on the right to be an industrial area. To keep with the Pittsburgh/Mon Valley theme, on the hill of the right, I'm going to put in some Steel Mill flats like its on the hill and make it look more industrial there.
I'm also thinking of doing a yard off of that side, down the rest of that wall, and curve it into an area that, right now, is just dead space. I'm using RBPTrains layout as inspiration on that section. In that area (which I'll still need to mock out), I plan on putting a little suburb area. More plans on that in the future!
But things should be going vertical soon. I'm going to build it in a modular fashion, so if I need to move it, or if we move, I can easily take it down too.
Thanks and happy Friday!
The rights to the picture I attach belong to OGR. I hope I'm not violating any rules by posting a quick screenshot of the layout plan.
