DKS's plans

Track Plans for All!

Can you believe my little track plan collection gets over 100 hits per day?Even though I'm not a world-class planner, I happen to really enjoy it, and consequently I'll do it for other modelers just for kicks. If you're looking for some track planning ideas, here's a bunch I've done mostly for Railwiremembers. Except where noted, they're all N scale, and range in size from HCD (hollow core door) layouts to basement-filling empires. Feel free to use, modify or reproduce any of these plans. If you republish them, please link back to their source. Thanks!

Starter Layout #1 HO 48 x 96 Starter Layout #2 HO 48 x 96 South Richmond Industrial N 96 x 96 SeaTac Industrial N 96 x 96 Plummer Junction N 96 x 96 Missouri Pacific Hoxie Sub N 144 x 156 Cambridge Branch N 80 x 60 Port Reading N 96 x 96 Southern Pacific Sunset Route HO 156 x 168 Lehigh & Hudson River Ogdensburg Branch N 102 x 132 Arkansas Midland Railroad N 132 x 144 Norfolk Southern Freehold Branch N 36 x 80 Aberdeen & Rockfish N 36 x 96 Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad N 60 x 132 Western Maryland Connellsville Sub N 96 x 132 San Diego & Arizona Eastern N 36 x 80 Old Colony & Newport N 60 x 96 Aberdeen & Rockfish II N 24 x 54 Leesburg Branch N 52 x 108 Sunnyside Passenger Yard N 84 x 138 Conrail Buffalo Line N 116 x 160 PRR Juniata Division N 80 x 86

Limited Selective Compression

I found The Bing maps to be better than Google and can actually see what goes where in El Centro. I made the mistake and didn't listen to David K. Smith the layout designer and making the track parallel the streets at an angle so I need to limit the compression and model the first streets or so from the tracks and the depot to Highway 86.

I will make up in small detail around the structures that will be featured in El Centro. An IMEX depot will represent The SD&AE depot which is next to the SP Depot. The SP depot is a tough design, the colonaide design, so I will have to find something close to it or scratch build it.

I need to make a trip to El Centro and find the names of a lot structures and buildings. Hopefully this Summer when it's 120 in the shade. :)

More Gorge Part 2

More Gorge

Look it's the SD&AE Depot in El Centro with some work!

The brand is IMEX. The IMEX SMALL TOWN STATION built-up. Looks like The SD&AE!

Plaster City Narrow Gauge

El Centro SDAE/SP town being laid out

Does anyone know what the two industries are? Closest to the Holtville Sub lead and between the tracks by the loading dock.

The chicken or the egg!

Starting to lay ground scenery in El Centro. All desert terrain. 
Will come back with light, pale vegetation, sparse and some
Cottonwood trees and Palm trees. Structures will come last.
I always put structures in and then did scenery around. We
all know the egg came first.

Tell him it's a concrete SP phone booth

SD&AE Home Layout Desert Scenery Test Area - New River

Houston, we have a problem

Getting rocks off in this case

Gorge postcard

Welcome to Ocotillo 1980