The layout at a glance
Name: Midwest Quarry & Mining Co.
Layout owner: Bob Genack
Scale: On 2 1/2 (1:48, narrow gauge)
Size: 8′-6″ x 12′-0″
Prototype: freelanced
Locale: Midwest
Era: 1930s
Style: L-shaped
Benchwork: L-girder and open grid
Height: 46″
Roadbed: cork
Track: Atlas code 100
Mainline run: 57 feet
Minimum radius: 24″
Minimum turnout: no. 4
Maximum grade: 2 percent (main), 6 percent (crusher spur)
Name: Midwest Quarry & Mining Co.
Layout owner: Bob Genack
Scale: On 2 1/2 (1:48, narrow gauge)
Size: 8′-6″ x 12′-0″
Prototype: freelanced
Locale: Midwest
Era: 1930s
Style: L-shaped
Benchwork: L-girder and open grid
Height: 46″
Roadbed: cork
Track: Atlas code 100
Mainline run: 57 feet
Minimum radius: 24″
Minimum turnout: no. 4
Maximum grade: 2 percent (main), 6 percent (crusher spur)
This a work of art. Thanks for sharing this plan.
Really sweet ! A well thought out layout – I wish I'd have seen it first before I got so far into mining into a mountainside.
Possible suggestion regarding real-world explosive storage, You'd keep it closer on-site at the least active end of the quarry. Remember a second smaller secure shed away from the dynamite is necessary for the blasting caps. Really minutae I know, but I wrote a book on Atlas Powder, which required a lot of research.
Looks like a plan. I have kato track with the "eight" plan and I could add the other tracks with switches to add to what was done before. Thanks.
Nicely done A+++++