N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout

[wm3798]

We're going for an overall effect here, not a museum display.  Besides that, the Bird in the Hand... costs nothing!

Lee

[Hawghead]

Cleaned up the work zone and finished laying out the high line.


Lee

Cleaned up?  Really?  Where? 

Scott

[davefoxx]

Speaking as someone who just built a curved, skewed trestle over another curved track at difficult angles, you're going to have fun designing and building that double-tracked curved and skewed bridge at the bottom right in the picture above.  I think you may have backed yourself into a corner worse than I did! 

Good luck!
DFF

[DKS]

I'm guessing that'll be a tunnel, as opposed to a bridge...

[Dave V]

The again, Lee just kinda does and worries about planning after it's done.     Something tells me he'll figure it out with brute force.

[DKS]

The again, Lee just kinda does and worries about planning after it's done.     Something tells me he'll figure it out with brute force.

Kinda reminds me of Han Solo--

Rey: "Is that even possible?" Solo: "I never ask that question 'til after I've done it." @3:50

[Point353]

Wouldn't you rather have an Arnold Rapido GG1 to haul those Metroliner cars?

[wm3798]

@Point353 , I have one, but it's in PRR... But I may have to start prowling around for a black one!  BTW, I'm setting my vertical bridge clearances based on the raised pan of the GG-1...

Okay, so I didn't clean up the WHOLE work area, but I did take all the tools and bits of track out of the river!

Yeah @davefoxx , I'm scratching my head over that crossover too.  Could shorten the route a little bit so it crosses over at the tangent, but you know... shortening the run?  NEVER!

I'm considering a simple tunnel solution, but that's so vanilla...  Will probably end up with a plywood deck crossing to carry the track with some plate girders tacked to the sides...  I'll have to come up with a support system that looks reasonably... reasonable.

I could also take the inner loop in a bit using the 7" radius Trix Trax, so there ends up being two separate crossings...  That may impede my ability to use the inner track at the back for a general traffic siding though.  I'll have to test drive my BL-2 and the 2-8-0 to see how they behave on the tiny track.

And @DKS , I consider it a privilege to be uttered in the same breath as Han Solo!  (although I've always been more of a Mr. Scott fan)
Lee

[wm3798]

I tidied up that skewed overpass which will help me design a more practical bridge.  It'll still be a little out there, but it's much better now.


And in the process I picked up a little pad for a WM train order station.



Dug this old trestle out of the tubs and modified it to fit it's new home.  I originally bashed it out of a couple of Atlas deck truss spans for the original WMRHS museum layout back in 1987.  I liberated it when that layout was removed to expand the library.  Later it was installed at Hinshaw on my West end layout.  I'm glad it will once again be put back in its original purpose of carrying Fireballs and Black Diamonds across the Potomac.



And this is the point of the entire exercise...



Lee

[DKS]

I'm thinking for that spot where the two upper lines cross over the two lower lines, build a concrete overpass/tunnel/flyover thingie. It's really hard to come up with reference images, because searches always focus inappropriately on one of the search terms. And right now, I can't even see my own images--but hopefully everyone else can...



(I'm assuming I got the web address right--at the moment, I have no way to confirm this.)

[davefoxx]

I can see the picture, @DKS, of two cab units pulling a passenger train over one of those Pennsy Flying Junctions.

DFF

[DKS]

I can see the picture, @DKS, of two cab units pulling a passenger train over one of those Pennsy Flying Junctions.

Great, thanks. It just adds to the mystery.

BTW, @wm3798, I'm amused by that random track nail dangling over the B&O caboose...

[davefoxx]

BTW, @wm3798, I'm amused by that random track nail dangling over the B&O caboose...

You, too?  I figured it was some sort of sadistic tell-tale. 

DFF

[wm3798]

It's the Sword of Damacles.

Great reference shot, too.  I'll explore that possibility.  Thanks.
Lee

[wm3798]

All four loops are in place... still need a few pieces of foam cut and some proper wiring done yo consider the fully installed, but tonight I was able to stare blankly across my cocktail as four trains made the rounds simultaneously.


Happily JFRT!