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Seeking help for spare-room-sized expansion of layout
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<p>Jim,</p><p>From your drawing it looks like the room size is 11' East to West by 10' North to South. Where is the door and how does it swing? </p><p>I would guess that the door is in the S.E. corner and the interchange track along the far right (East) wall is designed to go behind the door when swung open - but that is a guess. That would put the back of the roundhouse on a person's left as they entered the room.</p><p>Since engine servicing facilities are usually associated with yards or industrial areas you might want to consider switching the location of the mine and the turntable/roundhouse. That would make all the Northwest corner as "flat area" trackage and the Southwest corner and the whole South wall could be higher level mine and mine approach trackage (more open scenery).</p><p>A switchback to a mine is not uncommon and could be quite interesting but you do need to leave plenty of room on each common leg of a switchback. A switchback could leave the mainline in the Southwest corner and go North behind other flat land structures as it gains elevation. The common leg of the swithcback would then be in the rear of the Northwest corner. Then the second leg of the switchback would head back South again to gain elevation to the mine.</p><p>One thought anyway.</p><p>Good luck,<br />-John</p>
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