And I understood that gentle curves that don’t parallel the benchwork edges look more attractive and interesting than ruler-straight main lines that do. I avoided putting the busy Cincinnati yards and industrial Norwood back-to-back, so operators wouldn’t get in each other’s way. There’s a ton of operational opportunities all along the line, from depots and industries to team tracks and interchanges. I included hidden staging to bring traffic in from the line’s northern connections. The track arrangements at Cincinnati and Lebanon are fairly close to the prototype, thanks to good diagrams in my reference book, Narrow Gauge in Ohio (Pruett Publishing Co., out of print). By selectively compressing the long, boring, rural northern half of the layout into a shelf along the garage’s back wall, I managed to model the prototype’s entire 29-mile route in a space just under 21 x 25 feet, and still leave room for Traci to park her car.
#Superego train sketch pdf#
(I was just a callow lad of 43.) Don’t worry if you can’t read the photo of my faded drawing I’ll link to a PDF of the published version below.īut first, I’ll practice a little self-care by listing the things I still think I did right on this track plan.
Let’s see what we can learn from my youthful mistakes. Today, 13 years later, I see what I couldn’t see at the time, but he did. When my mentor, MR executive editor Andy Sperandeo, looked at it, he just shook his head. Luckily, this track plan was never built. So let’s examine my mistakes in this track plan.
in 1906 were within my reach! I drew this track plan to fit in the 2½-car garage belonging to my then-fiancée, now wife, Traci, and was immensely proud when it was published in MR’s September 2008 issue. Finally, the resources to build my HO scale version of the Cincinnati, Lebanon & Northern Ry. It was 2008, and I’d been with Model Railroader less than a year. Today’s sketch was drawn long before Sketching with Steve was a gleam in anyone’s eye. In this installment, Steve will tell you what’s wrong with the plan, while explaining the difference between a walk-in and walkaround track plan. It was also back when he didn’t know as much about track planning as he does now. Senior associate editor Steven Otte drew this track plan for Model Railroader long before Sketching with Steve came along.
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