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Joe, how did your layout operations work wth an HO version of the LRL engine shop and ferry?
I’m seriously thinking of trying to model it in O scale, but will have to compress and take artistic liberty – a wye for turning even a short O scale train (using a self-imposed 60″ minimum radius) takes an enormous amount of space that I will not have. I may substitute a turntable if that wye was primarily used to turn an engine. I really want to do a shelf switching layout in a 19′ x 22′ room.
From an ops perspective, I can start to see primary moves:
Ferry moves coal, general freight and occasional psgr train from the Sparta sub in IL
Crushed limestone & general freight move from MO to IL
Since this ferry handled up to 200 cars per day, the boat had to use a lot of coal itself; but how was coal loaded into the boat’s coal bunkers – dumped on deck from hoppers to bunker(s) below deck??
Were M-I engines prepped here for head end power at a more southern yard?
After cars were pulled from the ferry, were they moved to Middle Yard or Sainte Gen, or were the trains made up here? Just doesn’t look to be enough trackage to make/break trains. I could envision moving them from LRL to a staging area.
…gregg
