Input!

I sent an email off to the Historical Society of Perry County and got a reply from Carl Tressler, their President. Hopefully he will be able to supply some data, especially maps, that will be of help in my planning stages.

As a side note, Tressler's Farm is where the original disputed crossing of the PCRR and N&SVRR took place by way of a diamond, and after the court action where the trestle was built. I don't know if there is a connection, but I did ask.

UPDATE: There is a connection, the owner of Tressler's Farm was a several-greats uncle. Still waiting to see if there will be any information that I can use, any little bit will be helpful.

Track Plan?

The figure 8 in yellow is the narrow gauge portion of the line, the blue around the outer edge is the standard gauge part. The double tracks in green represent the dual gauge trackage in New Bloomfield, the ore processing plant at the top is in New Bloomfield Junction.

This is a very rudimentary track plan on a 4x8 table, there is another that I am contemplating which will be an around-the-wall type built on modules. I am trying not to build a "spaghetti bowl" type setup, but there is a lot of railroad to represent for a short-line.

The around-the-room plan has the benefit of not being as cramped, so things can be laid out more or less linearly. Also, the number of tunnels can be reduced or eliminated all together as the prototype only had one attempted tunnel (which will end up being a cut in my plan).

The drawback is that it will take up more room, but it should be easily portable on the modules as long as the joints are well planned.