Orangeville Yard Engine Facilities
Orangeville yard looking from the south end northward.  Immediately to the front is the engine facilities.  The turn table will have to be scratch built.  Pit is already in place.  Originally, I was going to build the steel coal tower (at the bottom here), but I've decided instead to build the 200 ton wood tower that existed before the steel tower especially since the steel tower did not come into place until 1953.  However, having both will allow me to change dates..

This end was difficult to do to scale.  From the freight shed to the location of the first switch at the bottom of the photograph is dead on to scale.  The problem was I have not been able to get a photograph showing how the trackage came off the main line and entered into the engine facilities.  The configuration I decided to do was based upon similar trackage elsewhere and seemed the most logical.  The only problem I had was that No 8 switches are too tight and do not line up the track correctly.  The only alternative would have been hand laid switches, which I did not want to do.

In Feb of 2002 I acquired a photo which showed in the distance the track into the engine facilities.  Turned out that the "most logical" above was not reality!  Thus I ripped out the track and built it as it was.  You can see how the track swung out, then back in again.  Also, the coal tower track at the right went much further than I thought.  In fact, it went right up beside the ash pit track, over the creek.
Panel for the engine facilities.  There are four DCC outlets here, two on each side.

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