N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout

[wm3798]

Rummaging through more boxes and pulled together some of the parts I'll need to build my roundhouse.  A few more parts to find, but I was,surprised at how much I have in stock!

[Bangorboy]

That's the model at the Science Museum that now occupies the building.  I can print the window grids on acetate.
Wonder what can use for the dome?
Lee

That looks a lot like a model I saw when I brought my modules to a get-together in the Science Museum at Richmond several years ago, which the organizers called an "unconvention".  We were set up in a tent under the concourse on the far side from the model pictures you show.  I talked with the builder, and he said he made the dome from a hard hat belonging to a toy called Bob the Builder, a character from a kids' TV show.  Will that help?

[wm3798]

Actually, the model in my photo is 1/8" scale... about HO, and was built in 1924 by the RF&P's pattern maker to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the station.  It is displayed in the Rotunda as you enter the museum.

[nscalbitz]

Rummaging through more boxes and pulled together some of the parts I'll need to build my roundhouse.  A few more parts to find, but I was,surprised at how much I have in stock!

Yeah I had that built too, once upon a wannabe time... 

[wm3798]

Ordered the stuff to build the TTrak style return loop at the right end of the track plan.
Debating whether to do two corner modules or one endcap... for all practical purposes, I only need an endcap, which saves me on the wiring components... but the corners provide for more flexibility downstream... Hmmm.





Thoughts from the peanut gallery?

[CRL]

Need more peanuts 🥜

 

[DKS]

Coin toss, really. So many competing pros and cons. I think if it was me, I'd do the two 90s, since, as you say, it offers more flexibility. FWIW.

 

[CRL]

^^^^ This... unless you’re looking for a unified scene to model for the combined modules.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Do the 90s. If you want to be cheap, put the electrical feeders in the middle.

[wm3798]

There's a solution that had plum evaded me... Brilliant!

I'll work out a supporting frame design that will work for two 90s...  As for the scenery, I'll have to work that out yet.  Might be a good place for some "negative space" for the photographers...

Lee

[nscalbitz]

Need more peanuts 🥜

 

As long as they're chocolate coated, I'll amuse myself in the corner like any good monkey... 

[Point353]

As for the scenery, I'll have to work that out yet.  Might be a good place for some "negative space" for the photographers...

With a barn and a farmhouse on the inside of the tracks, you could make a really condensed version of Helmstetter's Curve.

[wm3798]

It would make sense given its potential proximity to the Cumberland Station on occasion... But I'm also thinking Sabillasville, with its highway underpass at the apex of the curve...


Image from Jeremy Cooper's excellent website:  http://www.wmwestsub.com/main.htm

[jpec]

Ordered the stuff to build the TTrak style return loop at the right end of the track plan.
Debating whether to do two corner modules or one endcap... for all practical purposes, I only need an endcap, which saves me on the wiring components... but the corners provide for more flexibility downstream... Hmmm
Thoughts from the peanut gallery?

End Cap. Less bolts to fiddle with....

[DKS]

...I'm also thinking Sabillasville, with its highway underpass at the apex of the curve...

Yes, this. You're right on the edge of a dense mass of railroading, so a sudden shift to "nothingness" might be jarring.