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Spring 2011 $8.00 US Spring 2011 Journal 42 $8.00 US Offi cial Publication of the Layout Design Special Interest Group, Inc. Features The California, Oregon & Western ...........................4 by Dennis Drury Thoughts on Multi-Pass Design ................................10 by Robert Reid 16 90 Feet more Mainline ..............................................14 4 by David R. Clemens We “operate” these prototype UP trains Design Challenge: Road Warrior Revisited ............21 70 67/68 KALISPELL GREAT SPOKANE WALLACE FALLS Concepts and track plans by Ray Freeman, Mike 19 MI??MISSOULA 69 39 40 151 297 McLaughlin and Mike O’Brien PORTLAND HINKLE 251/252 And add MARENGO (below 20 counterparts extension Nov ‘09 E. Spokane) 152 SI Jct Text and story editing by Dick Foster 298 BOISE UP 262 UP 257 NP Xing EAST Nov ‘05 B&O’s 26th St. NYC Yard .....................................21 SPOKANE Nov ‘05 Central California Traction ...................................22 SPOKANE MARENGO SAL, ACL, A&W in North Carolina, 1925 ...........23 Union Station Staging West ‘ Sept ‘05 May ‘05 Timetable & Train Order “Trainer” Layout ........24 14 WEST SPOKANE Design Considerations for Proto-action Couplers ...26 July ‘05 by Trevor Marshall News and Departments Join the Fun and Help Out .........................................3 (including upcoming X2011 Convention activities) by Seth Neumann, LDSIG President Design Choices that Matter ........................................3 21 by Byron Henderson LDSIG Board of Directors Election ........................32 LDJ Questions, Comments and Corrections ..........35 26 Layout Design SIG Membership The Layout Design Special Dues*: $25.00 USD; Canada $25.00 Interest Group, Incorporated USD; Foreign $35.00 USD. 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Full issues of the printed magazine are regularly mailed to members. See links above for more information, to subscribe or to renew. The California, Oregon and Western in a Garage Revisions to history enhance proto-freelanced design by Dennis Drury Several years ago my wife and I were fi nally South) and the Burlington Northern (BN) was able to acquire the house of our dreams, and granted trackage rights on the new CO&W. even if the dreams aren’t exactly the same, The BN was given approval to abandon its line we’re both happy. My dream was to get almost as part of this transaction (creating a traffi c full title to a 10’ X 33’ foot section of a three- source for the layout). This also provides the car tandem garage. The only caveat: I had to BN with a direct connection to the Santa Fe leave a wide walkway from where the car is as a way to route traffi c to the southwest US. parked to the entrance of the house. I was also In addition, the CO&W was named as the des- given partial title to any part of the rest of the ignated operator of the former SP yard facili- garage that would not interfere with parking ties in Klamath Falls, the fi rst part of the vis- the cars. What to do with all that space? ible layout to be completed. The SP and BN First order of business was to fi gure out the both interchange with the CO&W in Klamath what, when and where I wanted in my model Falls. Startup date was set for January 1, 1984. railroad. My prior layouts (see sidebar be- low) had been built on a variation of the same Equipment and ops freedom theme: modeling the Southern Pacifi c (SP) as These plausible alterations to history allow me it was in 1984, or modeling a short-line that to operate the trains and equipment I wanted in connected to the SP. a reasonable historical context (see Operations New history: more engaging layout table, page 8). Besides the SP and BN trains operating via trackage rights, I can create The California, Oregon & Western (CO&W) CO&W trains to include operations or equip- is a model railroad representing a fi ctional ment that might be hard to justify in a pure short line in south-central Building Toward the CO&W prototype design. How many layouts does the average Oregon and northeastern person in our hobby build? For me, that California in 1984. The For example, the imagined early startup date number is currently at three, not counting CO&W extends from an wouldn’t have left the CO&W much time to the N-Scale layout I built for my grand- interchange connection get everything in line for its beginning. Ob- son. My fi rst was a modifi ed design from with the Southern Pacifi c taining a fl eet of locomotives and other rolling the book 101 Track Plans for Model Rail- at Klamath Falls, Oregon stock to actually operate the line would be an roaders by Linn Westcott. That fi rst layout to Alturas, California, run- initial challenge. Fortunately, the CO&W was was just to test concepts and to get a feel ning over trackage of the able to acquire seven GP38-2 locomotives that for what building a layout was all about. former real-life SP Modoc were coming off lease. The basic double-track oval with a small yard and a branch-line was more about Line (see facing page). I imagine that these were either former Rock continuous running than anything else. Besides the creation of Island engines that had been liquidated as part My second layout was more of a the California, Oregon & of the Rock’s bankruptcy and had ended up in switching layout, a fi ctional short-line that Western, this imagined his- a lease pool, or former Penn Central / Con- connected with the SP. I designed it from tory also involves the Great rail engines being returned at the end of their the ground up, and it was more about re- Western Railroad, formed lease. The locomotives were all routed to Mor- alistic operations than my fi rst railroad: to operate the line from Al- taking cars the SP had left on the inter- rison-Knudsen for shop work and new paint change tracks, delivering them to my turas to Lakeview (I’ve re- before being delivered to Klamath Falls. In ad- customers, and then pulling the cars to vised its history a bit). The dition, four cabooses, a wedge-type snowplow go back to the SP via interchange. I had Army was granted own- and other miscellaneous MOW cars were pur- a lot of fun with both of those layouts and ership of the line south of chased on the used equipment market. This would still have them if it hadn’t been for Alturas to its base (which allows me welcome fl exibility in operating moves. – DD I’ve relocated from farther equipment on the model. 4 Layout Design Journal www.ldsig.org History settled, on to the design! The layout is being built with a 30” minimum The Givens and Druthers for the layout itself radius to support the full-length passenger include the 10’X 33’ room size and access cars, as well as the 89’ piggyback fl ats and au- restrictions that have already been discussed. toracks. Minimum turnout number is a #6 in staging and on the future line to Alturas, #8 on the visible portion of the rest of the main line and #5 in the yard and industrial areas. Maximum grade in the helices is 2.2%. In the next phase, the grade on the line to Armstrong (BN connection) will be mainly level until the grade to Alturas begins at 3%. Control is Digitrax DCC with radio throttles. The staging yard and CTC turnouts and signals are con- trolled by a dispatcher at a computer running JMRI software, while the line to Alturas is dis- patched using track warrants issued by radio. This photo shows the action that can take place on a well-designed I’m also using the Operations module of JMRI railroad.
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