What is Protocrastinator?

A Protocrastinator is a person who puts off finescale Railroad (and railway modelling) for no good reason.
Originally for me it was 1:87 (HO) scale. Problems with acquiring the bits and pieces led to extreme dissatisfaction and the project stalled. Now I've acquired an O scale boxcar and I intend investigating Proto 48 as a finescale project.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

A proper plan!

So, with the sketch whizzing around in my head it was time to put pen to paper and try to work out how plan it out on a baseboard.
The first and most important thing for me these days is to avoid rectangular baseboards at all costs. I also knew that having watched the trains on the curve on Wingetts Recycling. I liked that and wanted to have that feature on the new layout too. The curve would have to be really generous working in P87. One thing lead to another and before I knew it I ended up with this triangular based scheme.
Quite how I came up with a triangular based layout I don't know though I have always been fascinated by Roy C Links Crowsnest Tramway and in particular the third incarnation which is would you believe it, is a triangular based plan. So that must have come back out of the depths of my mind to haunt me. So I just dropped my previous sketch into a triangular baseboard and everything seemed to fit quite nicely.
The numbers by the pointwork indicate the frog size and hand (6L is 1 in 6 left hand) the 6L's will be converted Micro Engineering points, the 5R will be built from one of my Proto87 stores kits, though of my turnout building fails there is plenty of room there to replace it with a 6R. The two sidings disappearing off to the right will enable me to load and unload cars in the loading shed and fill up a woodchip car by the loader. All in all the layout is about 5'9" long by 2'4" deep or thereabouts. For a Mk1. its a pretty good start.
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  1. IanJanuary 10, 2010 at 2:33 AM

    I like triangular and certainly with you on curved baseboards.

    How are you masking the exits at front left and on the Chip Loader line?

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  2. Ian Holmes January 10, 2010 at 6:10 AM

    I'm hoping that all the associated pipework and and other gubbins associated with a wood chip loader will serve to hide that exit. As for the front left exit... That's bugging me. I need to find something other than trees.

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  3. Radical BelieverJanuary 12, 2010 at 1:17 PM

    Could you put a short spur there (a team track?) and use a freight car to hide the exit?

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  4. Ian Holmes January 12, 2010 at 4:28 PM

    Now there's a good idea. Don't know why I didn't think of it before. I've suggested the idea on other schemes I've come up with. Thanks!

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