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New layout up for comments!...naw, time to move on.
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<p>Ok I'll repost with a few photos</p><p>Well here are a few snap shots. Perhaps Vail didn't read that I was expanding a layout built in a former residence as a "flat on the carpet-slide under the bed" experiment. I wanted to incorporate 2 of the three layout board modules I had created. All the inner loops are thus the former perimeter loops of the orignal layout.</p><p>Connection would be via one turnout formerly to the "south yard" now to a new yard. The old south yard would be connected via a turnout off another new yard that runs under a Warren Truss bridge. The lower loop of the new outer oval mainline is a rise and fall on a 4 degree slope.</p><p>The new layout pieces also had to be modular, and I could not build it at table height as I had to put it in a nice, but low main floor storage space I have refurbished for the purpose. Thus there are many board margins that I had to contend with.....and place the entire layout on 2 and a half dozen 2 inch casters. That way I could manouver them into place when wired and I can also stand, sit, and lean on the 1" medite boards with no flexing.....there are 6 to 8 casters under every board.</p><p>I can access the layout from two ends at least.</p><p>[img]http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/layoutcopy.jpg[/img]</p><p>[img]http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/newlayout001.jpg[/img]</p><p>[img]http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/182.jpg[/img]</p><p>But it is true, no doubt, that it doesn't resemble a realistic "working" railroad.</p>
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