Prototype: Chicago & North Western and Milwaukee Road. Click on the image to download a PDF of the track plan. It turned out more crowded than anticipated, but it was an interesting idea to explore. Download this track plan from the August 2019 Model Railroader. I chose Amarillo as a point to simulate Santa Fe traffic coming and going through Avard. Worth and the SP connection at Sherman, Oklahoma City and beyond, and Amarillo. Next to Springfield is Tulsa, which has staging to simulate end points for Dallas - Ft. In the middle of the layout is Springfield, behind that is staging to simulate Memphis, with Birmingham and the rest of the east coast, and St. At the entrance of the Layout is Kansas City, which includes both 19th st and Rosedale yards as well as several interchange connections.

Instead of focusing on a sub division or maybe 2 sub divisions anchored by a terminal at each end, I put 3 of the biggest terminals the Frisco had on the layout with hidden staging to simulate movements between just about every point in the Frisco system. Today I want to share a concept I've been working on lately. At this point I have a lot of ideas I've scrapped because they didn't turn out the way I had anticipated. To start exploring ideas, I started making 40' x 40' plans, but always came up a bit short of what I was wanting to design so I started making 40' x 60' plans. We have an understanding that I will have a large layout space, but it will be in a detached building.

At some point in the next few years my wife and I plan to build a house out in the country. The past few months I've been looking to the future with my layout plans.

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