Shunting layout engine shed i wanted to have a small engine shed on my layout, so that i could include a water and coaling facility for shunting operations but also so that i could add some good lineside features.. Small engine shed query - posted in layout & track design: my plan is to have a small-ish two track engine shed. each track would/could hold a single 0-6-0 tender loco. now i would like to incorporate either an ash pit or an inspection pit, or both.. This shed is for one of my small on30 layouts and was built from alastair’s “print-out” paper models. the base of the model is/was the new “covered bridge” kit but parts were purloined from both one of his house kits and one of the shed kits also..
The design was for a four foot by one foot baseboard, give or take a couple of inches either way, with the goods yard at one end and the small engine shed and coaling stage at the other, the latter to mask the exit to a fiddle yard and imaginary station off board.. This is to my own design, following numerous full size drawings of the desired model. suitably dimensioned balsa wood strips and "matchsticks" were cut, glued, painted and coal smothered, and resulted in the structure now sitting outside the engine shed. platform scene. On this layout, the mainline train comes out of its hidden track, swaps empties for loads at the interchange, and returns to staging. the shortline engine picks up the empties, takes them to the coal mine, and returns the empties to the interchange. the spartan engine facilities are also at the top of the mountain..
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