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Layout Design Challenge I
Urban or Industrial Switching-Oriented Railroads
Indian Nations Division
2011 LDOPSIG Meet
Copyright © 2011 Charles Tapper
Design Challenge Presentations
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Charles Tapper: Copper Belt
Dave Salamon: Johnstown and Union City
Charles Tapper: Pittsburgh Transfer
Charles Tapper: ElectraSteel
Bob Madison: Neosho III
Olaf Melhouse: Terminal Dock Railroad
Charles Tapper: Mushroom Ideas
Charles Tapper: Warrior Iron and Steel
Space For
The
Challenge
The Original Plan
Based on the
Unfinished Room
The Revised
Plan Map
An Opportunity Arose to
Have the Space
Finished, Tied in to the
Rest of the House, and
Carpeted. Some Plans
Have this Revised Space,
But All Plans Are Valid to
the Challenge.
Copper Belt Railway
• Models a Porphyry Copper Mining Operation in Which
Pit Haulage Has Been Replaced by Truck Haul
• Features Mainline Run From Mine Loader to
Concentrator/Smelter Complex
• Loads In/Empties Out Set Up With Truck Dump and/or
Shaft Loader and Concentrator
• Hot Metal, Slag Moves in Smelter Area, Interchange
With Major Roads
• N Scale, To Take Advantage of Scenery-to-Train Ratio
• Linear, Sort Of, and Definitely Walk-Through
• An Industry That Justifies Rail Haulage
Inspiration
Inspiration
Note Color of Mine Workings
Matte
Blister
Copper
Anode Copper
Anode Copper
COPPER
BELT
ROUTE
Copper Belt Railroad
• Outbound Loads: Copper Anodes (XM), Blister
Copper, Sulfuric Acid (Tank Cars),
Molybdenum Disulfide (LO).
• Inbound Loads: Copper and Iron Scrap, Mining
Equipment, Supplies, Empty Cars
• Captive Loads/Empties: Ore, Silica Flux,
Limestone in Ore Cars, Hoppers, Side Dumps,
etc.
Power Suggestions
• This Layout Could Cover the 60’s to Present
• Diesel or Electric Power Could be Justified
• Diesels Typical of the Era And Available in N
Scale Include Alco RS-2, RS-3, and RSD-4/5
Road Power, Baldwin VO-1000 Switchers, or
EMD SD-7 or SD-9 Roadswitchers Available
From Atlas, and Alco S-2’s (OOP Rapido)
• The Switcher Could Be Assigned to the
Smelter Complex, and Several Sets of Road
Power To Service Mine and Quarry Runs
Rolling Stock: A Challenge
Ore Cars Are Seemingly Custom For Each
Operation, And Designs Changed Through
Time
The Short, Tall Gondolas Favored By Some
Are Simple Enough To Envision
Making Masters of a Few Examples of
Empties and Loaded Cars, and Casting
Them in Bulk. These Could be Kitbashed
From Hoppers or From Scratch
Features/Comments
• It is Really a Linear Plan, The Turnbacks Simulate the
Railroad Trading Mileage for Grade, Following Drainages
• This is N Scale and Entirely Uses Atlas Code 55 Track, With
15” Minimum Radius Throughout
• Atlas Curved and #5 Switches
• Staging is Shown as Two Tracks on Narrow Shelf in Entry;
Could be Revised for Under-Deck Staging
• Curves and Yards are Probably Overly Generous for an
Industrial Operation, Impacting Aisle Space
• I Would Revise the Plan to Shift Return Loops Closer to Wall
and Thin Bench Widths Also to Increase Aisle Space
• Stations and Passenger Service Could be Added
• Silica and Carbonate Quarries Not Ideally Situated
Operations
• One or More Power Sets to Cover Mine to Concentrator and
Return Runs: Limited By Operator Space
• Multiple Road Jobs Would Call for Train Orders, Since the
Railroad is Dark
• Full Time Smelter Switcher Handles Plant Moves, Assembles
Transfers, Switches Interchange Yard Classifying Outbound
Loads and Assembling Transfer Cuts
• Several Transfer Runs From Interchange Road or Roads from
Staging: Having More Than One Road Would Generate More
Traffic and Also Create a Need for Classifying Outbound Cuts
• Turns to Service Quarries, Copper Recovery Facility: Road
Moves Could be an Excuse for Simple Train Orders
3’ Door
Sketching Master
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Attic Access
V.AC
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Storage Space
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Duct
2 Foot Square Grid
3’ Door
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Sketching Master
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6”
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Storage Space
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Attic Access
3.5”
2 Foot Square Grid
3’ Door
Storage Space
3”
1.5”
Realignment to
Reduce Reach
Improved Edge
of Benchwork
Suggested Loop Revisions
(Dotted Red Lines) To
Remove Choke Points
Improved
Edge of
Benchwork
Johnstown & Union City Railroad
By Dave Salamon
Johnstown and Union City Railroad
The layout design is a multi level and mushroom designed for N scale and is a
switching layout, there are no through trains.
Local operators at each of the 3 locations, and you could have an addition 1 or 2
operators running transfer or interchange runs between the 2 towns and main yard.
Johnstown would be the upper level where the Steel Mill is located and would run
around the upper level to the Helix and enter the main yard.
Union City would be the waterfront town and would run into the main yard from the
other direction
The Main yard (Layout Owner can name it whatever he wants…) is major yard where
both ends of the line connect with. This is a non stop job, it is always making and
breaking trains and switching the local industries. There is also a small staging
yard/fiddle yard for bringing cars on and off the layout.
The helix is located behind the Central Air/Heat items, access it by crawling under
and popping up if needed. It is fairly tight radius but all equipment will operate fine
as most cars are the 40-50’ range with a few 65’ mill gondolas.
Start with a roughed in plan of what we want to incorporate
Cross section of the Multi level/Mushroom design
Cross section of the Multi level/Mushroom design overlaid on room drawing
Ideas for the track plan, Started with Byron Henderson’s plan in Model Railroad
Hobbyist and cut and pasted and modified to fit the area we had. This is just
and idea what could be placed in the area provided.
Pittsburgh Transfer
• Pittsburgh-Based Steel Mill Intraplant Terminal and
Switching Railroad
• Integrated Steel Mill With Blast Furnaces, BOF, Coke
Plant, and Rolling Mills
• Interchange With Local Railroads
• An Industry That Truly Justifies Big-Time Rail Haulage
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Circular Track Plans are Prototypical
Spaghetti-Bowl Layouts are Also Prototypical
Sharp Radius Curves are the Norm
Steep Grades as Needed
Short Trains, But Heavy Tonnage
Really Cool Motive Power, Often Minority Builder or
Critters… and what Could be More Prototypical Than a
Remote-Controlled Locomotive?
Awesome Rolling Stock From Hot Metal Torpedoes and
Slag Cars to Ingot Buggies and Billet Cars, Plus Gondolas
Industrial Canyonlands: Huge Buildings, Lots of Detailing
Lots of Movements in a Working Shift
Trees? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Trees!
Inspiration
Rationale
• Massive Amounts of Inbound Iron Ore, Coal, Coke,
Limestone, etc.
• Internal Movements of Hot Metal, Slag, Ingots,
Billets, Slabs,Coils et al.
• Outbound Loads of a Variety of Products: Sheet and
Strip, Coil, Structural, Welded to Seamless Tube…
Key Elements
Features/Comments
• HO Scale
• Mostly Atlas Components, But Many Walthers #6 Double
Crossovers and Crossovers, Plus Curved Turnouts
• Wedging a 1970’s Integrated Steel Mill Into a 12’x14’ Space
• 3 Blast Furnaces With Highline and Ore Tracks, Crane
• Basic Oxygen Furnace and Continuous Caster Plus Teeming Aisles
• Coke Plant and By-Product Area
• Steep Grades and Sharp Curves, With 18” Minimum Radius and
Atlas Radius-Type Switches in Spots
• Switching Lead Wraps Around End and Extends on a Thin Shelf into
Door Recess
• Interchange Lead to P&LE, Union, PC, Chessie System, PittsburghYoungstown-Cleveland Staging Tracks Disappears and Descends
Under Ore Line into Underdeck Staging
• This Layout Could Generate Tremendous Traffic for 3 Operators and
a Tormentor to Bring Transfer Runs in for Nuisance Value
• Plan Not Optimized, Would Benefit From Customized or Handlaid
Track Components
Previous Space
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Steel Mill Theme
Bookshelves
Workbench
Storage in Shelves, Racks, Roller Bins
8’x12’ Room: 2 Operators Max
58” Benchwork, Mostly 2’ Doors Held Up By
Ledgers, 3 Legs, and Heavy Duty Shelf Brackets
• Staging Would Have Been on a Shelf in Adjacent
Game Room
• Benchwork Complete, and Then Job Change and
Relocation
Future Tunnel
Through Wall to
Staging Shelf in
Game Room
BOF
Testing Uncoupling
Reach, Reading car
Numbers
58” Deck Height
It Was Never Really This Neat!
Library
Files and
Model
Storage Rack
Under Blast
Furnace
Drop-In
Section
Highline,
2Tracks
Ore
Stockpile
Ore Dump
Tracks (2)
Mill Flat Used to Test
Shipping Building Concept
Rolling Mill Flats,
Shipping Sections
Future Liftout With BF Approach Tracks
3’ Door
Attic Access
Highline Up
V.AC
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Storage Space
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Duct
2 Foot Square Grid
3’ Door
Storage Space
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Duct
Highline Up
V.AC
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Storage Space
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Attic Access
3+”
2 Foot Square Grid
3’ Door
Storage Space
3’ Door
Storage Space
Attic Access
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Low Pressure
Gas Mains
Duct
Sarah B
Ore
V.AC
Highline Up
Blast
Furnaces
Crane
D
Emily A
Zimmer Coke Plant
Coal
Unloading
Coke
Loading
By-Product
Loading
(Boxcars and
Tank Cars)
Lime
Unloading
BOF
Scrap
3’ Door
Storage Space
3’ Door
2 Foot Square Grid
Katie C
Elevated Low Pressure
Gas Mains From Blast
Furnace and Coke Plant
Rolling Mill
Shipping
Building: Coil
Steel
Continuous
Caster as
Building Flat
1 2 3
1. Hot Metal
Torpedo Track
and Slag Track
2. Stores Tracks for
Ladle Reline
Area (e.g.
Firebrick)
3. Teeming Aisles
(2 in this case),
Big End Up
Molds With Hot
Tops
Slab Yard, Craneway, Loads Slabs For Shipping Out in Gondolas
3’ Door
Attic Access
Staging
V.AC
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Storage Space
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Duct
2 Foot Square Grid
3’ Door
Storage Space
Power
• The Continuous Caster Plus Active Highline
and Ore Dock Suggests a 1970’s Layout
• Power Could be a Combination of LowClearance Critters, Older Minority Power
(Perhaps Repowered), Some New SW-1500 or
SW-1001 Locos (the Former With Slugs)
• Several Paint Schemes Give a Sense of History
• A Bicentennial is a Must For 1976
• Safety Cars at Each End of Locos, Especially for
Remote-Controlled Locos
Operations
• Patrol Furnace Alley and Switch the Blast Furnaces, Tapped at Regular
Intervals: Hot Metal Cars Would be Shuttled to the Basic Oxygen Furnaces
• Slag Pots Switched into a Train for Offsite
• The BOF Scrap Lines
• Teeming Aisles
• Lime Unloader at BOF
• The Highlines: Coke from the Coke Plant and Offline, Ore Delivered by Offline
Ore Specials
• Coke Empties to Coke Plant
• Coal from Offline to Coke Plant Unloader
• By Product Plant (Boxcars and Tank Cars)
• A Scale Track Would Add Interest
• Transfer Runs, Ore Specials from Connecting Roads Would Enter Yard
Facilities to Drop Exchange Loads/Empties
• Mill Buildings Would Need to Be Serviced: Loads Going Out and Empties In
• Slabs or Rounds to Reheating Furnaces
• Slab Shipping from Slab Yard
Mckeesport Connecting-Style Cab
Having a Few Locomotives in an
Older Scheme, Heavily Weathered,
Reinforces a Sense of Continuity and
History. The Ladle Herald is the Old
Scheme, Replaced by a Steel LogoDerived Design Inspired by the
Steelers Football Franchise
New Logo, Paint Inspired
by Steelermania
1976
Obligatory Bicentennial
Rolling Stock
Steelermania
ElectraSteel 44 Tonner #12
ElectraSteel
Precision Engineered
Electric Alloy Steels
• A Freelanced Alloy Specialty Steel Shop Producing
Engineered Steels in an Electric Arc Furnace (EAF)
Melt Shop, with Casting, Rolling, Forging, and
Tube Capabilities (More Than Just a Mini-Mill)
• Interchange with Major Road(s) Via Staging
• Raw Materials In and Finished Products and
Slabs/Billets/Ingots Out
• Electric Arc Furnaces (EAF) Require Little Coke
and No Hot Metal, but Take in Abundant Loads of
Scrap Steel, and Alloying Materials Like
Ferrochrome and Ferromanganese.
Baghouse
Furnace Building
Koppel, PA
Rolling Mill
Inspiration
Narrow Gauge
Critter With
Huge Pit-Cast
Ingot for Forging
Lathe
Machining a
Forging
Stripping Ingots, Narrow Gauge
Vacuum Casting Chamber
Electric Arc Furnace
Features
• This HO Scale Layout Features Tight Curves, Many 18”
Radius Curves and Curved Radius Type Turnouts
• NOT a Layout for Long Wheelbase Locomotives!!!
• Components are Atlas Code 83, Mostly Buried in
Ballast, and Select Walthers Code 83 Turnouts.
• Steep Branchline Reaches Layout Level From Dreaded
Under-deck Staging
• Three Operators Possible, but a Bit Cramped
• Plan is Not Optimized: Trimming Stock Switches Could
Gain Some More Space For Aisles
• Continuous Caster (70’s) Could be Modified to be Slab
Furnace and Stripper and Soaking Pits for an Earlier-Era
Layout—Dual Teaming Aisles and a Bottle Teeming
Track Are Provided in the Electric Arc Furnace Building
• Caster Limits This to the 70’s or Later
• Power Can be Critters (44, 65, 70, 80, 90 Ton)
or Second-Hand Alco, Baldwin or EMD
Switchers or Perhaps a New SW-1001: Engines
Can be Remote Controlled With a “Safety Car”
at Either End Made From an Ingot Buggy
• Cars Should Include a Few Bottle and Kling
Cars, a Few Slag Pots, Ingot Buggies, and
Several Captive Heavy Duty Flats
• Mill Operations Include Sounding Alarms and
Lights Before Entering Buildings, No Locos in
Buildings (Reacher Cars)
Operations
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Service the Scrap Tracks and Charging Aisle of EAF
Service Teeming Aisles, Molds to Stripper Mold Prep Area
Slag to Dump Area: EAF’s Don’t Make Much Slag
Torpedoes and Kling Cars to Casting Division
Castings Out to Interchange, Multiple Interchange Roads Using
Branch Create Need for Classifying Outbound Loads
Service Mill Building Shipping Departments: Mill Protocols Must be
Followed Including Reach Cars and Alarms/Bells in Mill
Ingots to the Forge and Finished Product Out
Slab Yard: Slab Shipping or Transfer to Rolling Mills
Deliver Anodes, Firebrick, Containers of Ferrochrome Etc. to EAF
Transfer Runs From Connecting Roads, Inbound Cars Sorted for
Distribution to Various Plants
Storage Space
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Sketching Master
Attic Access
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V.AC
3’ Door
Storage Space
3’ Door
2 Foot Square Grid
Lead Extends on
Shelf on Wall for
Extra 3’ of Lead,
Wall Disguised
by Mill Flats
Loco Shop Bay In Mill
3’ Door
Storage Space
Welded Tubular Division
Attic Access
V.AC
Slab
Yard
Coil
Shipping
Scrap
EAF
Continuous Caster
Seamless Tube & Wire Division
Forge
Division
3’ Door
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Down to
Staging
Duct
Storage Space
3’ Door
2 Foot Square Grid
Steel
Castings
Division
Backdrop in Blue,
Makes Room For
Window Access:
Could Have Mill
Flats
Pierced Seamless
Tube Shipping
Department
“Rounds” In,
Loading Reheating
Furnaces
Forge Department:
Large Pit-Cast or
Vacuum-Cast Ingots In,
Finished Castings to
Wire and Rod
Shipping Department Machined Parts Out
Steel Castings Division: Pouring
Pits, Vacuum Casting Chamber,
and Stripper for Big End Up Molds
Welded Tubular Division Receives
Coil, Called “Skelp”, Which is
Rolled and Welded Into Tubes
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Down to
Staging
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ElectraSteel Is Generic:
Interchange Roads
Could be P&LE and PC,
B&LE and B&O, P&WV,
Erie Lackawanna, or
Any Western PA Road
B
3’ Door
Storage Space
3’ Door
2 Foot Square Grid
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Neosho III
• Missouri Branchline Plan
• Takes a “Less is More” Approach With Emphasis
on Casual and Prototypical Branchline Operations
With Full Crew
• Bob Provided Detailed Operations Plan
• Advantages Clearly are the Layout Can be Built
Inexpensively, Brought to a High Degree of Detail
• Rocket Test Facility is an Unusual Industry
LAYOUT NAME: NEOSHO III
DESIGNER: BOB MADISON
Geographic Location: Neosho, Missouri
Era: 1956
Scale: HO
Minimum typical curve radius: 24"
Minimum typical turnout standards: #6
Minimum grade: optional (prototype represents start of "Neosho
Hill" rising toward Camp Crowder)
Elevation: 54"
Car Capacity (in 40' cars, approximate):
Cassette: 4 cars each track
Express track: 6
Southbound sort: 10
Northbound sort: 8
Runaround: 6
Yard lead: 4
Ice/Kraft Cheese: 4
Farm Supply: 4
Industrial Drive: 4
Camp Crowder runaround: 6
Rocketdyne: 5 cars each track
Rocketdyne lead: 3
Main south of Rocketdyne switch: 5
Motive power: Baldwin VO-660 or Fairbanks-Morse H-15-44
Operator positions/duties:
1) Conductor: maintains switchlist and is responsible for
train movements.
2) Engineer: responds to orders of conductor.
3) Brakeman: throws all switches; couples and uncouples
cars.
4) Agent (host): prepares and maintains on-hand report;
attends to Lime Kiln/Wolf Milling and SLSF cars.
Terminal Dock Railroad Company
By Olaf Melhouse
A Switching Layout With a
Dock Area and Connections
to Local Railroads (Erie,
Lehigh Valley, and Central
RR of New Jersey)
Features Abundant
Switching Moves and
Industries to Service
Mushroom Variations
Inspired by a Conversation With
Carl Schorfheide
No Helices, Separate Layouts
Perhaps Separate Scales or
Even Separate Themes
Tie Into
Rafters
Lower Deck
17
Walkway
Basic Concept
Upper Deck
Over Lower
Walkway
14
Elevated Gallery
for Operators
Plan 14x17
Mushroom Idea Applied to Layouts
1. Wharf Rats*: A Freelanced New York Harbor
Rail Marine “Layout Cluster” in N or N/HO
2. South Side Belt, Incorporating Interchange
Yard with P&WV’s Mifflin Branch (West Side
Belt)
*With Apologies to Rich Montesano and Tom Fausser
Wharf Rats
• New York Harbor Rail Marine: A Cluster of
Mostly Single-Operator Component Layouts to
an Overall System
• Ideal Arrangement Because Operators are
Essentially in Fixed Positions and Narrow
Aisles Less of a Problem
• One Layout Located on a Folding Table in
Another Room
• Down Side is No Mainline Running, of Course
Float Yard
X
A No-Mushroom Scenario
Jersey
Shore
Line
Bronx
Terminal
Freelanced N Scale Version of DL&W’s 25th
Street Yard (Over Staging Yard For Jersey
Shore Yard)
Freelanced
Version of
B&O’s 26th
Street Yard
Carfloat
17
Float Yard
14
Jersey Shore Yard
(N Scale)
Mushroom, Four
Independent Layouts
Bronx
Terminal
“Floater” on
Folding Table
in Game
Room
Carfloat
Brooklyn Connecting
(HO, Proto:87)
Plan 14x17
Freelanced
Version of
B&O’s 26th
Street Yard
Girder Rail, Street Running
To
Staging
Freelanced N Scale Version of DL&W’s 25th Street Yard
(Over Staging Yard For Jersey Shore Yard)
Upper
Deck Red,
Lower
Deck Blue
No Helices, Separate
Layouts
South Side Belt
N Scale Freelanced Branch Line and Urban
Industrial Switching: Mushroom Option
Allows Modeling Interchange Operations
Jay Gould Invades Pittsburgh’s South Side With
Help From J&L and Oliver Iron
South Side Belt
• Proto-Freelanced, Fictional Branch Line of the P&WV
From Their West Side Belt to the Heavily Industrialized
South Side of Pittsburgh.
• Takes the Place of the PRR’s Whitehall Branch.
• Operated as a Subsidiary of the P&WV, With Fleet
Painted in P&WV Colors But Lettered “South Side Belt”.
• Power Would be H-15-44’s and H-16-44’s 80-89, Fitting
Into the P&WV Lettering Sequence of 50-79 for H-2044’s and 90-93 For H-16-44’s.
• Vary Carbodies From Early to Late to Simulate Gradual
Purchases.
PRR’s Whitehall Branch
Red = Whitehall Branch
The South Side Belt
Green = Pittsburgh and Lake Erie
SSB: Up Beck’s Run
to a Connection
With the P&WV
(West Side Belt)
and Montour
Plan, in Progress But Not
Finished at the Time of
the Meet Covers Only
the Dotted Area: Going
Mushroom Might Allow
Modeling the
Connection With the
P&WV
Area of
Previous Slide
P&WV
Main
To P&WV Mifflin
Branch (P&WV,
Montour)
South Side Belt Maps
Allegheny and South Side
3’ Door
Storage Space
Sketching Master
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Attic Access
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B
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3’ Door
V.AC
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N Scale: Using Detailed,
Vintage City Maps To
Conceptualize The South Side
Belt and Guide Track Planning:
Some Compromises,
Simplifications Will Be
Neccessary
3’ Door
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2 Foot Square Grid
This Block
Rotated 90
Degrees
Storage Space
3’ Door
Sketching Master
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Attic Access
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B
Storage Space
3’ Door
V.AC
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3’ Door
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2 Foot Square Grid
N Scale: Using Detailed,
Vintage City Maps To
Conceptualize The South Side
Belt and Guide Track Planning:
Some Compromises,
Simplifications Will Be
Neccessary
Storage Space
3’ Door
P&LE Main And Running Tracks
D
C
South Side Belt
V.AC
Using Detailed, Vintage City
Maps To Conceptualize The
South Side Belt, the Inner
Track (Pgh & Whitehall or
P&W) Between Industries and
P&LE
Freelanced
Monongahela
Connecting Yard
South Side
Belt Helix
B
3’ Door
Mon Con to Staging
P&LE
Helix
Sketching Master
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Light Blue =
Backdrop
P&LE
Helix
Mushroom Dreams…
Add Helixes
Mushroom Idea
Lower Deck in
Blue With Upper
Deck in Red
Underdeck Staging,
Lowest Level of
Railroad
Storage Space
3’ Door
P&LE
Helix
V.AC
D
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South Side Belt
Gallery For
Upper Deck
Freelanced
Monongahela
Connecting Yard
Light Blue =
Backdrop
South Side
Belt Helix
B
P&LE
Helix
3’ Door
Mon Con to Staging
P&LE Main And Running Tracks
Interchange Yard
No Access @
15’ Radius
Belt Engine Facility
Sketching Master
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Duct
Storage Space
3’ Door
2 Foot Square Grid
With An Upper
Deck: Plan is Under
Development and
Not Complete
Warrior Iron and Steel Company
• WISCO: Inspired By The Industrial Railroads of Birmingham, AL
• Coal Mining, Iron Ore Mining, Limestone Quarrying, Iron and Steel
Making, Cast Iron Pipe, Coke, Cement, and Even a Port.
• Based on the Mary Lee and Woodward Railroads, With a Dash of
Birmingham Southern, ACIPCO, McWane Cast Iron Pipe, U.S. Pipe
and Foundry, Nucor, and USS Fairfield.
• An Interplant Railroad Set in Fictitious Warrior County, AL
• Plausible Interchange Partners: L&N, CofG, Southern, Frisco, IC,
GM&O, ACL, SAL.
Inspiration
Woodward Blast Furnaces
Mary Lee RR Coal Train
Iron Mine
Birminghamport, AL
Four-High Millstands
Reheating Furnaces
Scale Breaker
Steel Mill Building Built
For the “Wrecking Crew”
Club in Birmingham:
Photo Enhanced Since the
Backdrop and Tunnel
Lining Was Removed For
Work, and They Had
Snapped Off The Warrior
Iron and Steel Sign!
Scratchbuilt Rolling Mill
Interior With Resin
Millstands: Needs More
Weathering!!
Disguises Corner
Mill Interior C. Tapper
Limestone Quarry
Koppers Coke Battery and By-Product
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0”
Cast Iron
Pipe
Division
Highline
Pipe
Shipping
Pig Caster
Southern
Warrior Iron and Steel is an N
Scale Freelanced Road Based on
the Mary Lee, Woodward, and
Birmingham Southern/TCI&RRCO
Operations in Birmingham, AL
0”
Warrior Steel Plant
WISCO
Central
Furnaces
2”
Warriorport
(River Terminal)
Birmingham is Unique in that all
of the Components of Iron and
Steel Making Exist in Proximity
SAL
Red Hill Iron Mines
WISCO
0”
2”
3”
Plan is Under Development
and Not Complete
Flat
Top
Mines
(Coal)
Layout Features Blast Furnaces,
Coke and By-Product Plant, Cast
Iron Pipe Facility, a Steel Mill
(Not Complete on Plan), a River
Port, and Multiple Interchanges
With L&N, Frisco, CofG,
Southern, and SCL
Switching to Road Jobs, Coal to
Industrial
Vital Links
Fallen Flags Railroad Photos: http://gelwood.railfan.net/
Nevada Northern (Copper Hauler): http://nevadanorthernrailway.net/
Bingham Canyon: http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/search.php?CISOROOT=/USHS_Class
Search from there for historic Bingham and Garfield, Bingham, etc. pictures.
Hoboken Shore:
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http://hbs.railfan.net/
http://austinfieldoffice.com/modelrailroad/ (Modeling)
New York Harbor Railroads
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http://www.freightrrofnyc.info/
http://members.trainweb.com/bedt/IndustrialLocos.html
Pittsburgh Maps: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/maps/
Birmingham Area Data: http://www.bhamrails.info/index.htm
HABS/HAER: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/
Steel Mill Modelers
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http://www.tacoma-trains.com/bobspage.htm
http://www.daveayers.com/Modeling/Steel.htm
http://www.zahkunst.net/mainpage.htm
http://mussersteelmill.blogspot.com/