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My first layout back in Sydney was a pool with a rail line around it. Now I have moved up here to Queensland; I started in my area 2 the same way but with more garden and an entertainment area. But now i have area 1 going and am well into area 3 and these are all separate courtyards with separate layouts all joined together by rail, but all layouts fit in with the garden they are situated in. And they can all be controlled from anywhere using a remote handset to my MTS. Area 1 is an anticlockwise reversing loop wending its way thriough a tortuouse set of curves amongst palms and ferns and "birds of paradise" and a Japanese pagoda complex, it is connected to Area 2 by a 10 metre track along side the lawn. This area is my main drag at this time and it has a complete circuit which is a shape I cannot describe but i think from my schoolboy geometry it is roughly a rhomboid or possibl;y a rhombus. It includes a small bridge and two Thai Pagoda areas. Then we have Tunnel Doreen, which I have described ad nauseum, going behind the pools pumhouse and connecting it to. Area 3 this is my first planned layout with a double dogbone all curves are about R3 and all grades are 4 %. We have managed to fit 35 M (220') into just over 22 M2 or 242 sq ft, ie 7.2 m X 3 m. It nearly has a clockwise reversing loop to complement the one in area .1 In the planning stages (doing nothing stages) is to run a major line from area 3 through area 4 down to the garage and I will eventually stable my trains there. Garages in Queensland have a roller on there back wall to allow you to take a boat or a caravan right through. Also another one which is going to be quite tricky is to connect area 3 up to area 1 with a second tunnel behind the pumphopuse ( this will be an elevated tunnel as well and this will then be a rare thing a double decker tunnel) and an elevated track right over area 2's main straight connecting up to right in the midlle of the reversing loop in area 1. In this new layout in area 3 I am putting in two sets of points (switches) to accomodate these two planned extensions. Regards ian
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