I am wanting to do a modular shelf switching layout in my 9x10 room. Era is steam, railroad is the Indiana Harbor Belt and I am going to be using the AHM/Rivarossi 0-8-0 along with the same brand freight car and their sectional track and switches. They fit the budget and with the tiny room, short trains will be the rule so no issues with the plastic 0-8-0's low pulling power. I do plan to bash a few of the AHM Gondolas into longer mill gons as the IHB handled plenty of steel mill traffic, as well as bridge traffic between railroads and loads of local switching. I originally thought about some false front steel mill buildings. But keeping with what I can get cheap with the AHM cars, they did a nice stock car. So maybe a false front meat packing plant where I can set in loaded stock cars of live stock and pull out loaded reefers of meat products. The gons I would remove the stock coal load and load them with removable scrap loads to take to the mill to be melted down. They also did flat cars and box cars that open up ideas. Obviously only room for a couple places to switch in my small room. If we have any really good track planners in our group here, I could use a bit of help with track planning before I attempt to build this. I have the dimensions of what the benchwork would be. Working on drawing that out so I can post that as a picture. AD
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