Brian’s been back in touch, adding to the collection of HO scale shelf model railroad track plans to the blog:

“Hi Alastair,

I have finally got the track plan of the upper level out of my head and have drawn a sketch to scale and onto paper.

Lots of modellers in the past have asked me for a track plan and where everything fits in it.

I have marked out the main areas of the layout and tried to match photos of these areas shown.

All photos refer to the position on the sketch below.

The dotted lines show where the lower level is on two foot wide shelves. (Plan of the lower level to follow soon)

I have to stress that this layout is a work in progress and still has to have a great amount of details to added. Ie: figures, vehicles, trees and grass.

Terminal & Yard – top middle with engine facilities – turntable and two stall engine house.

Terminal & Yard. Same as above plus business leading up to the town on the hill.

Top left corner, Town on the hill. Tracks in the cutting are to and from the yard and the sawmill area out of the photo on the left.

The sawmill and associated buildings. Right to left – Logging repair shed, Sawdust burner, main Sawmill and the Tie and Plank mill next to it.

Log Loading area. Logs are brought in via road and loaded onto the empty log cars using the Spar Tree.

The start of Hillside area. Here are, an Oil Depot, Scrapyard and a small station.

Continuation of Hillside. Left to right – stock pens, Engineering Co, Lumber storage, Fire house, Hotel and a few businesses. Track at left then continues to Cascade Creek Terminal.

Brian the HOn3 guy in Knysna RSA”

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Well, I had a good look at Brian’s track plan, and I thought, hang on, how does he get in and out of the room?

So I asked him:

“Hi Alastair, where the door is shown on the plan, there is a duck under “bridge” at 54 inches from the floor.

The bridge is removable.

Brian”

Clever stuff, eh?

A huge big thank you to Brian for adding to the HO scale shelf model railroad track plans.

You can see more of Brian in the Hall of Fame.

Also, when it comes to shelf track plans, I’m always reminded of this post:

HO scale track plans for shelf layouts.

Now on to another Hall of fame member, Dave:

“Hi Al,

Winter approaching, just a short video showing covers going on the pond, and so its back to my Model railway with footage of a pair of class 37`s running double headed.

Tony’s nightclub back in full swing as popular as ever, my track cleaner at work , and using the Möbius mini cam capturing the 37`s from track level..all good fun and should put a smile on our faces on these colder days.

Dave”

A big thanks to Dave, his youtubes are always fun, and to Brian too for adding to the HO scale shelf model railroad track plans.

Don’t forget, all layouts and all scales are welcome on the blog. It doesn’t have to be a stunner for all of us to enjoy it.

That’s all for today folks.

Please do keep ’em coming.

And if today is the day you break the shackles of boredom and build the layout you always wanted, the Beginner’s Guide is here.

Best

Al

PS Latest ebay cheat sheet is here.

PPS More HO scale train layouts here if that’s your thing.