A track plan

So, I have not posted here for a while, but there are some developments.

I have added another box car and a caboose from Tower Models, and laid out a small layout based on the standard gauge Wantage Town track plan (rather loosely it has to be admited).

The passenger station is at the front (Unit Models Modular Depot on the lower left of the plan) with a combine car in the platform. The 2-4-4FT Forney is in the head shunt of the run round with three standard Bachmann wagons (a tank and two box cars) in the loop. A Hopper wagon is sitting in the headshunt of the power station siding ( there is room for the Forney and a hopper wagon in the head shunt).

Now this is does not seem to be prototypical for Maine two foot railways, they seem to lack run round facilities, but for model railways, you would need to have a locomotive to take the train back out (unlikely in view of the short length of the trains modelled).

From the pictures in the book, Winslow had two sidings (one of which connected to a turntable and the loco shed). To operate that would require two locomotives to be in steam or cable shunting which is rather messy.

There will be future developments...