{"id":1830,"date":"2024-11-17T14:32:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T19:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2024-12-27T14:26:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T19:26:40","slug":"mqr-design-revised-freemo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/mqr-design-revised-freemo\/","title":{"rendered":"MQR Design – Revised Yet Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve taken the opportunity to move from a big oval to a loop-to-loop design. This design still uses Piko R3 radius curves as the minimum radius but now there is a significant single track run between the two loops. This should be more interesting to railfan on; you can definitely see the influence of Robb Bennett’s Weston Railway<\/a> on the design. You can also see from the drone-eye-view above where I expect to situate the layout in relation to the gardens and other buildings here at the farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I should be able to build this design in sections; each will be like a Free-Mo module with a standard 2′ interface at the end of each module.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The MQR at a Glance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Scale<\/strong>: 7\/8″ or 1:13.7 (45 mm gauge track as 2-foot gauge)
Prototypes<\/strong>: Penrhyn Quarry Railway & Talyllyn Railway
Locale<\/strong>: Wales
Time Period<\/strong>: late 1950’s
Size<\/strong>: 8 x 30 feet
Layout Style<\/strong>: Loop to Loop
Layout Height<\/strong>: 48″
Benchwork<\/strong>: Raised Platform (pressure-treated wood) 
Roadbed<\/strong>: Cedar splines
Track<\/strong>: Peco
Minimum Radius<\/strong>: 3′
Maximum Grade<\/strong>: none<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve taken the opportunity to move from a big oval to a loop-to-loop design. This design still uses Piko R3 radius curves as the minimum radius but now there is a significant single track run between the two loops. This should be more interesting to railfan on; you can definitely see the influence of Robb … Continue reading “MQR Design – Revised Yet Again”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-layout-design","category-marchlyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}