Closet Conrail Fan Strikes in Seaford, Delaware

[Chris333]

David,

No Tom Mann's head worked into the golf course on the Google image?   

[DKS]

David,

No Tom Mann's head worked into the golf course on the Google image?   

Nah, I was too busy working on this...



I doubt it's very workable; highly compressed, all of the sidings are really short, and many of the turnouts would need to be curved, since it's all squashed onto a door with a 2x2 extension. But I thought it might be a talking point, perhaps.

[wm3798]

Why not figure two doors, and add the MDDE to Federalsburg?  That would give you more of a live interchange, and more industry to switch.  To make it more authentic, you could place the second door around the corner from the first, and connect them with a shelf layout that features a longish single track run through corn fields.

The MDDE engine house and a small yard is located at Federalsburg, as well as a busy industrial park.  Scenery wise, you have the Marshy Hope Creek bridge. which is about 100 yards from the Federalsburg depot.




Hey, Brian... I think we just designed your first layout!

Lee

[DKS]

Why not figure two doors, and add the MDDE to Federalsburg?

I was trying to follow Ed's specification.

So, here's a challenge. Someone fit this on a door (plus a 2x2 extension off the one end...)

[wm3798]

Since when does anyone listen to him? ;D

Very catchy design, by the way.  Me like.
Lee

[Dave V]

Lee

Looks like the Atlas depot has you covered there...!  Just need to remove the dormers from the roof.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I LOVE where this is going.

The only problem is that my extension would be off the lower right on that plan. Maybe reversing it, and using it for another industry would work... hmm...

Thanks guys, btw. This is really helping me want to just give up the current one. I wonder what it would fetch on the open market.

[DKS]

The only problem is that my extension would be off the lower right on that plan. Maybe reversing it, and using it for another industry would work...

That is too strange... My first rendering of this plan had the extension off the lower right, featuring the swing bridge and the dock for Venture Milling. But, not knowing where the extension was supposed to go, I moved it to the left so I could add DuPont.

So, reversing it and moving the extension, we get something like this:

[Ed Kapuscinski]

That's funny!
I know Lee's seen the space I'm working with, I don't know if I've ever shown a photo of the whole area where the layout now lives to everyone. I should do that. But basically, the extension would be over my workbench area. It may not be a full 24" deep though. Maybe 18".

[wm3798]

Gack... It's all backwards now!
There's really only one solution.  Ed.  Buy a house.

Lee

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Now to draw it up in RTS...

Lee, I'm workin on it, dammit! I'm still waiting for the "massive foreclosures" around here...

[Ed Kapuscinski]

So I just started working on it, and there's no way it'll all fit.

Damn.

[DKS]

So I just started working on it, and there's no way it'll all fit.

I had a feeling it wouldn't work without handlaying most of the turnouts. Ah, well, back to the (virtual) drawing board.

[asciibaron]

if you dump the loop on the "main" you can do this quite well in your space Ed.  i was in Cambridge yesterday and ate lunch next to the county jail (not in the county jail).  i think the MDDE runs on Tuesdays so i was a day late for the switching show at the chemical plant.

-Steve

[wm3798]

MDDE was in town late yesterday.  Runs right next to my office.  They're in about 3-4 days a week to switch Interstate Corrpack, which manufactures waxed boxes for the seafood industry.  Tank cars of hot wax and boxcars full of corrugated.  They were back again at lunchtime today.

You should have let me know you were in town, I'd have gotten a ride with you instead of riding the bus home! (My daughter's car is in the shop eating up my train budget for the next 3 months...she has mine...)

Lee