N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout

[CRL]

But not as impressive as 1500.

Take that!! 

[wm3798]

Seeing @DKS post regarding his waterfall project has inspired me to put some thought into the one I've been planning behind my trestle.

When we travel (remember travel?) We love to go on hikes that bring us to waterfalls like this one in the North Carolina High Country..  So it will be fun to model something like that on the layout.
And I have just the spot for it behind this wood trestle.

Originally this was going to be a scene with a quaint mill race emptying into a falls, but since I industrialized Cornersville, the transition will be a little more challenging and less bucolic.

I'm thinking now the creek should fall from the left to a pool overlooked by the factory driveway, which would then cascade down beneath the sidings and on to the river below.

Just spitballin'

Lee

[wm3798]

Step one is to finalize the industrial tracks so I can see what I have to work around.

I wanted to add a new siding for the big factory, so one more short radius peco switch and a hard left turn will get it.
I can make a warehouse addition to the brick building, or perhaps a coal dock and a power house for the factory.

I can also re cut my foam core base, which is removable to access track below, so the siding can be fixed, and the removable bit can be just under the building.
That can then be secured to the backboard with some magnets to keep it from shifting around.

For the sidings, I'll do some simple i-beam bridges to cross the ravine,

Hopefully truck mounted rapido couplers won't make switching this a nostalgic romp through the darker corners of my vocabulary!

So now the project will not only enhance the scenery, but also the play value of the upper branch!

Lee

[wm3798]

Well that escalated quickly!


A 40' flatcar adaptively reused!  Perfect cheap bridge for an old branch line!

Lee

[wm3798]

Another otherwise billable hour squandered.

[glakedylan]

that flat car bridge is classic as retro and vintage
great call!


adding interest with each new project
looking great!


sincerely
Gary

[OldEastRR]

A waterfall coming off the mountain right next to the camper's vehicle would spill nicely into the pool next to the factory lot, and from thence on down to the sea. And the campers would have a great campsite.

[davefoxx]

Would that flatcar bridge require idler cars as a handle to reach/drop cars to that industry?

DFF

[Point353]

Would that flatcar bridge require idler cars as a handle to reach/drop cars to that industry?

DFF

Maybe another ex-GN flatcar to serve as a "handle" when spotting cars on the far side of a bridge made from an ex-GN flatcar?

[wm3798]

The only locomotives that run on the inner loop up top (which has a ruling radius of 7") are short wheelbase switchers.  The Plymouth in the illustration will likely get most of the work when switching is being done.
I don't think there's any major risk of dropping it in the falls.  The siding is only two car-lengths as it is!

Lee

[eja]

I don't think there's any major risk of dropping it in the falls. 
Lee

That Reading car looks like it came perilously close dropping !

[wm3798]

That was before I leveled it and installed more securely.

Now, I'm pleased to report that as we approach the equinox, I get a nice beam of sunlight on the Cornersville end of the layout in the afternoon.


Lee

[Ed Kapuscinski]

That is a decidedly NOT retro scene.

[Philip H]

That is a decidedly NOT retro scene.

Oh I don't know - the cast resin work truck on the road surface flying off into space screams early '70's layout to me

[wm3798]

Oh I don't know - the cast resin work truck on the road surface flying off into space screams early '70's layout to me

I'm workin' on it!!  Sheesh!