Future plans...

... and drawings. An expansion towards four meters are on the way with just some small differencies against shelf layout at home. (IHRR)

Updated trackplan...

Work is going on...

New section to the left

Updated trackplan

(click for larger)

Further plans

As usually their are plans for the expansion ;) The current goal are an "operational" small module-set in the office/workroom this autumn. The stagingyards going to be built as shelfs along the South and North walls.

Here are a proposal of "South River" with a railway bridge hiding the entrance.


"North Ridge" are a still secret (undecided) yard and industrial connection along the northern wall...

Overwiew

All parts together

Trackplan Muddy Creek

The third piece of Crawford Valley. The track from south pass a little creek on a small trestle before the first switch

Trackplan Depot Section

Trackplan for the Depot Section (please click on the picture to see all of it)

Trackplan Mill Street

A drawing of the "Mill Street" section is the result of some work in AnyRail 4 combined with MS Paint



(8/8 New updated picture)

A "new" trackplan

After a long break som new ideas have appeared to allow some more operations on the modules. The "Depot module" laying on the workbench but the "Extension" are still just an idea...

CS - Farmers Co Op Storage
E - Elevator
FD - Fuel dealer
FH - Freight house
GS - Grain storage
R - Ramp
TM - Textile Mill
TT - Teamtrack

Schematic trackplan

CS - Farmers Co Op Storage
E - Elevator
FD - Fuel dealer
FH - Freight house
GS - Grain storage
R - Ramp
TM - Textile Mill
TT - Teamtrack

The Extension section is not yet started

Crawford Valley

Connecting to the junction on the northern side is the small fictious village "Crawford Valley"

The module is already waiting for some paint in my garage. Compared with the trackplan has the elevator and its track changed places.

North End

Next section to build is that which will connect to the right. Instead of the trackconnection in the previous plan there are just a simple loading track with a storage shed used by the Countys Farmers

Why this blogg?

In this blog i will try to show the creation of the america-n module "Crawford Junction"

Why building Crawford Junction, is a hard question to answer, one is that was the right prototype at the right moment. When we started to discus a swedish us-module railroading group i´ve already seen pictures from the prototype i chosen on the www and looked closer on by using google maps just maked me more convinced what i want to build.

The updated sketch of the moduleset. Chicago at the left and St Paul at the right

(The trackplan is made i 3rd PlanIt and painted i Photoshop)