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Entry 9Town of Unknown
Town of Unknown End of the Random and Unknown Branch Era: Transition 50s-60s Turnouts: #5 Minimum Radius: 21 Length of run-around: 53 Longest siding: 34 There is only one railroad connection that is on the 2x8 plan (connection A). The idea is that this is the end of a small branch. This has all the facilities to house a small locomotive service area, 12 turntable and possibly a small roundhouse. Like the start of the R&U locomotives should be limited to small steam locomotives or small diesel locomotives, passenger operations could be handled by a RDC. The end of the R&U has a very small yard, the yard is too small to make and break trains for the entire branch so this yard was designed to hold another set of reefers for the consolidated dairy. Some ideas for the Industries: 1 Freight House/Team Track: Even if this side is the aisle way you only need to model the wood platform part of the freight house and half a crane. 2 Icehouse: The icehouse is used to ice the reefers that come out of the Dairy facility (4). 3 Passenger Station: Passenger station for the end of the R&U 4 Dairy: This is made to be the same size of the Walthers Consolidated Dairy. You could have a small steam locomotive (0-6-0 or 0-8-0) to shuffle cars between the small yard, consolidated dairy, the icehouse and the yard to make the dairy train for the day. 5 12 turntable: It is a small turntable but with a 21 minimum radius the branch should not see any large locomotives 6 Engine service area: This should hold what is needed to service locomotives including water, coal, sand, a small roundhouse and a caboose track to the right. |
