Tolga's Railroad Repository

The return of the academic year for me means the Holiday season is fast approaching. At this point in the year it is not too early, rather just right to begin conceiving how the annual Holiday display I do shall look this year. Past photos of the mostly suburban layout available here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/brickbuilder711/sets/72157637527799965/ This list of projects for the Fall-Winter is not limited to what's going under the tree but does set up well for that layout: Promenade resort and night club. The big centerpiece for the holiday display will be a beach resort with an outdoor version of a nightclub, probably similar in essence to LIV Miami. It will join a strip of a marina on the left side, hotel in the center, and lead to a beach on the right. The beach could be parallel to a double track section of LEGO track that turns around at the end. Similar in essence to Escambia Bay, FL or even stretches of the Pacific Surfliner. I even anticipate installing state of...

Not that it is going to last, but by utterly dumb luck I found a cleared lot on SW 2nd Street in the spur that CSX uses to deliver cars for Amerigas, that affords a decent vantage point of switching operations for the customer. This came up as I was chasing the shoving local, O717, which as some may know I have been trying and trying to model in HO Scale, when killing time waiting on a "coal train that never came". The very interesting thing is, this is a brand new spot, if you will. According to Google Earth, under seven months ago there were buildings there, but someone bought the land and razed the heck out of it. Here is a Street View image of the place circa 2011. What's also fascinating is a long ripped lead that involved delivering cars inside a warehouse. For industrial development and simply on the zoning of the property, this is prime real estate so let's hope some rail served business comes up. A multi spot boxcar warehouse could be a perfect ...