A quick photo tour of the No-Name Industrial in it's current state (1/6/12). First, for reference, here's the trackplan again.
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| No-Name Trackplan |
We'll start at the right end of the plan at the Interchange and move along the layout to the diagonally opposite corner. The first photo shows the interchange track with 4 cars on it. To the left of the interchange track is a storage track used for Northeast Container, with nothing on it in the photo. To the right of the interchange track is Northeast Container. The cardboard box represents the dock where scrap is loaded into empty boxcars. There should be a building just past the box to represent the warehouse, with the track the three boxcars in the corner are on disappearing into the building. The roof in the foreground is mockup of the Midstate Recovery building.
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| Interchange and Northeast Container |
The second photo shows Midstate Recovery. The building is long enough to completely contain 2 bathtub gons repurposed to C&D debris service, with 1 car's worth of track on the far side of the building and space for 3 or 4 on the lead side of the building. In the corner by the breaker box is the storage track used for Tighe, there's a single boxcar sitting on it in the photo. Just past the storage track switch is the runaround switch. The track heading off the left edge of the photo is the Northeast Container track. Around the corner on the right edge of the photo you can see a bit of a tank car on the Cains siding. All the track in the first two photos is code 125 on wood ties, the switches are Old Pullman kits and the rest is hand laid.
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| Midstate |
Looking at the same corner from the other leg of the layout. The boxcar against the far wall is the same one on the storage track you can see in the second photo. On the aisle side is the Cains siding with 5 vegetable oil tanks on it. The next track in is the runaround, then the main track which continues off where the MP-15 at the front edge of the photo is sitting. The track with the gray plastic pellet covered hoppers on it is the transload track. And the track at the far right with part of a boxcar visible is the Tighe track. All the track in the second two photos is Atlas flextrack and switches.
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| Cains and the runaround |
The final photo is taken standing in front of Cains looking at Tighe. The aisle side track with the MP-15 on it is the main track. There will eventually be some scenic excuse for it terminating at the wall, I haven't quite made up my mind what that will be yet. The middle track with the gray cars on it is the transload track. There's plenty of space between it and the main track for a gravel area for pneumatic trucks to suck pellets out of the railcars. The large building mockup against the wall at the left is Tighe. It's a foam core base with a couple sticks of wood here and there to stiffen it a bit, and some printouts of a photoshoped view of a building I photographed. Not nearly as well done as Lance Mindheims photo buildings, but it's better than raw white foam core. The "awnings" over the doors are sticky notes with a fold below the sticky line and with door numbers written on them.
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| Tighe and the transload track |
That pretty much shows the current state of the No-Name Industrial Park layout. Good enough to enjoy operating on, but lots of room for improvement.
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