AP Program Mentoring 008 Scott Perry - Civil - Trackplan

Speaking of Civil, let's get started.  First thing I'd like to do is to pre-qualify my track plan.  There will still be some tweaks to it, I'm sure, but for the most part it is done.

Link to Plan JPG

Quick note about the layout.  It is a cotton hauling Southern railroad in 1945, hurt by weevils and competition from abroad, a small fictional shortline moves cotton from the farm, to the gin, to the knitting mill and finally to the dock.  The design is for a transportable demonstration/training layout for giving clinics and taking to train shows.  It is lightweight and designed with four distinct circular sections.  Each section is visually isolated by backdrops and side panels.  Each season of the year is shown; spring, summer, fall and winter.  The time of the day rotates around the layout; dawn, morning, afternoon, and dusk.  It is also a water demonstration layout containing a stream, creek, waterfall, river, lake and ocean.  Read more on the Dixie Central Blog.

Item 1 on Civil (See Tracking Document) states the following:


1.  Prepare one original scale drawing of a model railroad track plan, identifying overall size, scale, track elevations, curve radii, and turnout sizes.
This plan must include:

1.      Adequate terminal facilities for handling freight and/or passenger cars

2.      Adequate terminal facilities for storage and service of motive power

3.      A minimum of one mainline passing siding

4.      Four switching locations, not counting yards, interchanges, wyes, and reversing loops

5.      Provision for turning motive power (except for switchbacks, trolley lines, etc.)

6.      Provision for simultaneous operation of at least two mainline trains in either direction.

#	Description	Pre Qualify	Status
0	Prepare one original scale drawing of a model railroad track plan, identifying overall size, scale, track elevations, curve radii, and turnout sizes.		90%
1	Adequate terminal facilities for handling freight and/or passenger cars		Done
2	Adequate terminal facilities for storage and service of motive power		Done
3	A minimum of one mainline passing siding		Done
4	Four switching locations, not counting yards, interchanges, wyes, and reversing loops		Done
5	Provision for turning motive power (except for switchbacks, trolley lines, etc.)		Done
6	Provision for simultaneous operation of at least two mainline trains in either direction		Done

#0.  The track is missing curve radii which I won't put in until I finish the trackwork as they may move a bit.  Size is included, as is scale, elevations and turnout sizes.  The drawing is in CAD and different layers can be turned on or off.  The electrical system is a separate layer and is turned off.

#1.  There is no passenger traffic, but there certainly is freight.  The town of Martinez has a three track yard for sorting cars, along with a yard lead which doubles for the passing siding.

#2.  The railroad has two small locomotives and both will share the siding at the service facility.  This is a DCC layout so no need for power blocks on this track.  Water, coal, oil and sand will be available, as will maintenance from the nearby workshop.

#3.  There is a passing siding in Martinez that doubles as the yard lead.

#4.  There are four switching locations (industries) on the line; The cotton/sand loading ramp in Toccoa, the cotton gin in Elberton, the pier at Tybee and the knitting mill in Martinez.

#5.  For turning motive power we have a turntable at the engine servicing track.

#6.  Provision for running two trains simultaneously is provided by Digitrax DCC.

Larry, see anything I missed???