DCC Impulses Column - 7
7: The Santa Maria track allocation
From Mr. DCC’s workbench
Making your small layout run bigger
I’m enjoying some limited operations on the HO shelf layout
discussed in this month’s column. However, initially I couldn’t
do all that I wished to bring a session full circle. I’m going
introduce you to an operations tool that I have used to increase
the fun on my SMVRR shelf layout. This layout is oriented as if
you were looking south, with East to the left.
There are three geographically different areas that the Santa
Maria Valley Railroad served:
The Southern Pacific (SP) interchange and yard in Guada-
lupe on the west
Industries throughout the valley
The oil fields at Roadamite in the hills 12 miles to the east
I started operations by setting up my shelf layout to represent
the industries in Santa Maria. That didn’t have the realism of
handling tankers coming from Roadamite to the refinery and
MRH-Feb 2013
