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<p>G,</p><p>First, excellent drawing! The cut/paste of the MRR people is really a nice touch.</p><blockquote><p><em>Or possibly moving the whole thing up a little bit - setting the highest track level at 57" and the lowest at 51". For railfanning, you probably want to look in at trains, not down at trains. </em><strong><em>I know....I know....unfortunately that big red bar on the top right is a circuit breaker panel and the max height I can go there is 53" to clear the door on the panel for opening without hitting the track.</em> </strong></p></blockquote><p>A bit of a warning here. The building and electrical codes require full access in front of a breaker panel. I know it is your house but if you ever had any construction work done in the future the inspector would make you tear out the layout before you could pass inspection. A removable section would probably satisfy the inspector.</p><blockquote><p><em>Be warned that the lower right hand corner is going to hard to reach from the aisle, even if you lift off the top of the tunnel - reach looks longer than 30". <strong>The lower right corner trackage is hidden and will be accessable from underneath.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>It looks like this area may be 40 to 50 inches from the edge of the layout to the mountain in the back. You will have to climb or lay on the layout just to plant a tree. Construction and scenery will be a real pain. The only solution would be to make the entire lower right corner removable so you could take the whole mountain off and work on it.</p><p>Other than that and what Stein already noted this looks like a really nice design.</p><p>Good Luck,<br />-John</p><p> </p>
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