Fastrack layout question

[coldstorage5]

Hey, Im ready to expand my lay out.  In my basement I have room for a L shape design.  Imagine a 4 by 8 connected to a 4 by 6.  So its 12 feet long and the L part is 4 feet wide. In other words I have a 6 by 12 rectangle, the I cut out a 2 by 8 section to get the L shape.

___________12 ft________

|                                    |4TH

|6ft      ** ______________|

|______| 2 ft

  4 ft

 

I tried to draw a  shape:

 

So my question is will the train be able to make the turn back  on the L shape loop where I put the asterick??

 

Thanx,

CS

 

[vbkostur]

ok. i think i know what you want to do. this is the option i would go using fastrack 036 curves(the most commmon).

 

 

[coldstorage5]

Great,

I will have an inner and outer loop in the L, so according to your chart.  I will proberly need another piece of wood in the inside corner.  What do you think.  Thanx for your time!!

CS

[Mntneer]

Hey, Im ready to expand my lay out.  In my basement I have room for a L shape design.  Imagine a 4 by 8 connected to a 4 by 6.  So its 12 feet long and the L part is 4 feet wide. In other words I have a 6 by 12 rectangle, the I cut out a 2 by 8 section to get the L shape.

___________12 ft________

|                                    |4TH

|6ft      ** ______________|

|______| 2 ft

  4 ft

 

I tried to draw a  shape:

 

So my question is will the train be able to make the turn back  on the L shape loop where I put the asterick??

 

Thanx,

CS

 

 

That's very similar to what type of space I'm looking at, and from what I gather by using RR Track, I can get an L-shaped layout with the Fastrack, but I can't fit another loop inside the outerloop, unless I go deeper than 4 feet.  So I'm thinking about Fastrack for the outloop at 36" and Realtrax for the inner loop at 31".

[Jumijo]

I had to widen our layout table to 4' 6" to accomodate 2 tracks.

Jim 

[vbkostur]

if you want two loops to kinda mimic each other, i would add a triangular piece in the corner and do something like this...

 

 

[vbkostur]

idea for a finished track plan. fastrack makes it hard to do what you want but it does have a little give to it...

 

[Jumijo]

idea for a finished track plan. fastrack makes it hard to do what you want but it does have a little give to it...

 

Close to what I have. It will be interesting to see if it will really fit on a 4' wide table. I had to widen my table to 4' 6". I like the switches in the inner loop.

Jim 

[fifedog]

May I suggest getting away from the front edge (**) alltogether, and placing a 45 degree crossing in between your two sections.

[ChiefEagles]

Good thought Fife.