Track Plan

        The track plan for the Quarry division of my layout is pictured below. The industries served will be a locomotive servicing location, a rock loader, and a cement loader. The locomotive servicing place will feature a scrap yard, and maybe a see-in where the building goes out of the side of the layout. The rock loader will be part of a quarry scene, and it will be able to serve 10-12 car trains with its two tracks. The quarry will feature a road going down into the quarry pit, which will end at my "trap" door. The siding for these industries will go down at approximately three percent, while the main line will go up at approximately three percent. This will make the feeling of "this is a quarry" go even further. The cement loader can serve trains of about eight cars, and has a conveyor going into the hill to bring the processed cement from the plant. The covered hoppers will be "loaded" one hatch at a time under an approximately 30" round tube. 

        The different types of trains will be run separately to add operating interest to the section. Train one will be full of ten to twelve hoppers and 44' aggregate hoppers and train two will be full of cement covered hoppers. The covered hopper loader siding was moved to be adjacent to the rock loading siding with space for dump trucks and front loaders. More will be changed as I go. -David Cutting