Working on Plainfield

Now that I have torn out all of Norwich, I need to start building Plainfield. One note is I plan on having three staging tracks on the back of the benchwork to serve as the northern end staging. The staging will be hidden by a short (around one foot high) removable back drop. Below you can see the interlocking diagram of the small yard and station area of Plainfield.

The N&W line run from the south on the lower left hand side and goes up to the upper right. The photo blow is a shot of the are looking north. It is from near the end of the NH in the late 1960's.  The original wood fright station burned down and was replaced by a smaller cinder block station seen below. 

The next shot is much older, shows The grain and feed store, I believe it will become an Eastern States Farmers Exchange dealer and then and Agway. It is the structure to the right of the station in the photo above.

Below is my layout of the area. The white paper structure is the cinder block fright house and the grey structure will be the grain and feed dealer. It is Edison Lab budling that is a reasonable stand in for the structure.

This is the other end of the small yard. There was an engine stationed here during my 1958 modeling period, typically an RS-1. It would handle the local switching as well as the line heading west toward Willimantic, CT.

Moving further north, the topography is a bit more hilly, I am using a bridge to divide the scenes a bit.

Here is the American Standard plant located north of Plainfield. In reality it is situated 90 degrees from how I have it, but there is no room to lay it out that way. This was a new customer to the New Haven in the late 1950s. The Magic Pans Bakery kit from Walthers is the basis if the kitbash.

Here is the actual plant in recent years, it is now a Staples warehouse.

The photo below shows the siding leading to the building, it split in to two tracks near the building. The track is at 90 degree angle from the main line.

I plan on laying out the 3 staging tracks on some thing plywood, then laying on the track of the benchwork. This will be keeping busy for a while.