Here are a bunch of photos that give you an overview of the layout as it stands Aug. 29, 2008. I'll give my full philosophy in another post.
Here's the Cleveland yard and shop complex. This is the original end of the layout and the one that is closest to being finished. You can see in the one picture the small harbor area with a coal barge. Coal is unloaded from the barges into waiting coal gons in the yard every day. The harbor is also a busy interchange point with trucks. All kinds of goods roll in and out of the harbor area each day.
Here's the Cleveland roundhouse, serving the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Here are some shots of The Flats, a heavily industrialized area of Cleveland with a mix of water and rail. Note the rolling lift bridge.
We now enter the mostly unfinished portion of the layout. Here are some shots of Cleveland proper and its neighboring industrial district (lot's of industry on this layout!)
Now some shots of Chicago:
Here's Chicago Yard, which is connected to the rest of the layout with a drop down section (not pictured). It's followed by a couple of shots of one of the few complete buildings on this part of the layout, the Collin & Brown Printing Co.
And finally, on to Kansas City. I'm still not sure what's going to be on this part of the layout. It may end up being rural. But the yard represents Kansas City regardless.
Here's the Cleveland yard and shop complex. This is the original end of the layout and the one that is closest to being finished. You can see in the one picture the small harbor area with a coal barge. Coal is unloaded from the barges into waiting coal gons in the yard every day. The harbor is also a busy interchange point with trucks. All kinds of goods roll in and out of the harbor area each day.
Here's the Cleveland roundhouse, serving the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Here are some shots of The Flats, a heavily industrialized area of Cleveland with a mix of water and rail. Note the rolling lift bridge.
We now enter the mostly unfinished portion of the layout. Here are some shots of Cleveland proper and its neighboring industrial district (lot's of industry on this layout!)
Now some shots of Chicago:
Here's Chicago Yard, which is connected to the rest of the layout with a drop down section (not pictured). It's followed by a couple of shots of one of the few complete buildings on this part of the layout, the Collin & Brown Printing Co.
And finally, on to Kansas City. I'm still not sure what's going to be on this part of the layout. It may end up being rural. But the yard represents Kansas City regardless.
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