Modelling Maine Railroads

Here is the track plan that I designed for the Penobscot St. spur. Click on the image to make it larger The layout is in HO, with 22 inch minimum radius and no. 4 turmouts, for now. Shaded in areas are roads. On the trackplan, Maine Central's Calais/Bucksport branch runs across the top of the plan, along the three foot six inch long wall. In the corner, the track will disappear into a clump of trees. In reality, the track there would go onto a large bridge to cross the Penobscot River into Bangor. After the track comes out of the clump of trees, the line crosses a street and then goes into a short cut. The switch to the Penobscot Street Spur is located in the cut. The Calais branch than passes under a road overpass, which is located in the upper right of the plan. The overpass actually does exist in real life, and is the perfect way to disguise the fact that the layout pretty much ends after the track passes beneath the bridge. I am planning to have a removable staging t...

Here is the track plan for my layout. (Click on the image to enlarge it.) Each square represents nine square inches, while a distance of four squares represents a foot. The layout size is approximately nine by eight feet. A staging area will be added later, either in the form of a sector plate or a two track yard. Minimum radius is thirty inches on the mainline, and there are no grades. The two dotted lines that cross the layout represent the joints between the modules. The town module is six feet long, the two outer sides of the corner module are each three feet long, and the third, countryside, module is five feet long.  To anyone reading this who lives in Canada, happy Canada Day!