Reference Shots

While it may look as if I have been idle, I haven't. I got some prototype shots and also dug through my old stuff and found a few more. It also may seem as if I have slowed down... again, I have't. My first few posts were actually a summary of about 3-4 months of actual work. Now the postings have caught up to the process so the updates might not be as frequent.

But on to the good stuff....

For the warehouse in the lower left, I am considering something similar to this structure.



Perhaps a little less modern. Mybe a brick structure with a bit of an outdoor loading dock. In general I want the feel of the building and landscape to look like this:



The trackwork, switches and general structure also should have that older gritty urban appearance as seen in this shot:



Moving to the mainline (or at least the implied mainline), I'm considering a couple of different styles of signals. I think the first of these two images will be the more likely result but the second one would look impressive. Then again with only 2 mainline tracks something of this size would probably be out of place too.





Moving to the bridges that allow the branchline and the interchange track to cross the road I found a few likely candidates. I like the silver rusty the most but obviously there is room two different bridges if I want.











The engine house, assuming I keep it this way would be a simple metal shed. On the other hand I found a parking lot for some switchers in the middle of the city the other day. Again, the urban dirty look complete with barbed wire and graffiti on the engines.





Next is the top left corner where the flat car/gondola/tank/???? car industry will be located. With tank cars I have the option for some neat piping. I did find one good shot to illustrate this.



Finally we move to the hopper facility. Last summer I found a good example of a small facility.





However just a few months ago I found what I think to be an even better candidate.








Hopefully with these shots you will have an idea of where I'd like to go with the look of this layout. Given the weather it'll probably be a few more months before I can start construction of the benchwork itself so in the mean time it'll be more reference shots and some additional planning on things like track work (flex? hand laid? etc.) and such.