Wetterau Food Services Micro Layout : WFS Layout Update

I am expanding the layout by combining the OASIS District with my Wetterau Food Services Micro Layout.  Here is a link with all of the details.  Below the link is the new track plan featuring the new set up for the combined layouts.

Wetterau Food Services Micro Layout : WFS Layout Update

Owensville Terminal Micro Layout

I started building a micro layout based on my Owensville Terminal Railroad theme last year. I finished it this past week.

The layout is H0 scale and measures roughly 16" x 30", not counting the hidden staging track and sector plate. There are no turnouts on this layout, and the hidden sector plate is used to move cars between the three tracks.

Sector plate prior to being painted 

The baseboard was made with foamcore, and the backdrop panels are hardboard painted with oil paints to create the autumn landscape. Staging and the sector plate are only long enough to accommodate a single loco and car, so switching cars must be done in a particular sequence. First, an arriving car is left on the main track. The loco then proceeds to the feed mill track to pull the car sitting there. Next, this departing car is off-spotted at the middle track, then the loco goes back and recouples to the arriving car so it can be dropped off at the feed mill. Now the loco picks up the departing car from the middle track, heads for the sector plate that is rotated back to the main track. The car and local can now head back down the main track and proceed to exit the layout at the staging track on the left-side of the layout.

 

Here are some photos of the completed layout... 

I had a lot of fun building this micro layout. This is the first time I attempted to create an autumn scene, and I am really pleased with how it all turned out in the end. 

Tom

Weathering Rolling Stock

Weathered several pieces of rolling stock this past week. Several more to go, but the list of unweathered cars is shrinking.

Weathering Locomotives

I weathered the last two locomotives for the OASIS District layout. No more shiny plastic!

Operating the OASIS District Layout

This past weekend, I operated the layout and put together a video of a typical operating session on the OASIS District layout. I use car cards and waybills for routing cars on and off the layout.

Tom

New Power at Fourth Street Yard

A big "thank you" to Mike Kieran for sending me a replacement GE 70 tonner after the gears cracked on my old Bachmann unit.

I swapped out the replacement unit red shell with the extra green shell I removed from my other working GE 70 tonner. That unit now sports the weathered green shell from the broken motor unit. I applied my custom Owensville Terminal decals to the loco, and it looks like it's fresh from the paint shop.

GE 70 tonners No. 71 and 70 pose for a photo at Fourth Street Yard in Owensville, Missouri.