I know that I shouldn’t play with my trains on the floor, since stepping on a tank car has to be on par with feeling the pinch of a Lego during a midnight trip to the refrigerator.
All kidding aside, I wanted to get a good look at how Berea interlocking would look in real life. So I printed off the eastern part of the AnyRail file and put buildings and rolling stock on it. I had to compress the interlocking by half, but both eastern and western halves will be 7’ 10” when combined. I was pretty satisfied with how everything looked.
The track layout is based around 1980, before Conrail tore up the eastbound Big Four main by the depot. It doesn’t depict NYC days, since that would be a madhouse of switches and double crossovers, which would blow my track budget out of the water.
For those interested in the structures, BE tower is made by Yelton Models, and the depot is by Leopard Architectural Models. Both are beautifully rendered.
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