My desire is to have two railroads that can operated together. I picked a plan and have got my table built which is 10 x 10. Where i am now is a 10 x10 with a pile of track on top. what next??????? I have material for some mountains with tunnels.....where do i start
Start cutting the plywood, mark your track plan with black magic marker. Elevate the areas needed with wood risers. What does your track plan look like? Next paint and seal your plywood with latex paint, tan or green, wire up your railroad, start your scenery. It will go faster than you think. If you scratch builld your bridges, make temporary spans out of plywood until they are ready. This way you can still run trains as you are working on your scenery and bridges.
Thanks i was kinda leaning that way...my plan is out of 101 track plans by Linn H. Westcott I am using plan number 31. It has two lines that cross. with several sidings and a working yard. It has some tunnels which is my main desire.. I am almost believing that i could just lay out the track, outline it, raise it up, run the train then build the mountain around it..do you think that is the correct way to go. thanks again woodie
Yep, that is how I would start. If you remove the plywood, do you have a open grid type table? the spacing of these support grids should be about 12 to 16 inches. This will facilitate adding risers were needed. When I was a kid I used study Linn's book for hours and days on end. Unfortunately, I don't have it anymore so plan 31 does not ring a bell. can you scan a picture of it and post? Once your plywood is cut and risers are up, you can decide if you want cork under the track or some homosote to make things quiet. I like cork cause of the price and ease of laying out the radii. Put your feeders in and insulated blocks as per the plan and run the heck out of it.... then do you scenery...
Have fun.
I checked out plan #31 and you must be running some rather small equipment on those sharp curves. I choose #39 because I wanted to run some large steam engines and now after I got the track in and started running trains I am not at all happy with it. It only has one loop to reverse directions and no way to get back in the other diredtion.
A 10 x 10 table is quite an area to work with. You may want to visit this web site to see if you can better utilize your space.
www.layoutvision.com
MC
Ten by Ten feet? Have you planned on how you are going to reach the center of that table to work on the railroad or re rail cars? Two and a half foot is about as far most folk can reach, so the middle of your table is going to require you to climb up on the table to reach anything. Which can be hard on track and scenery.
David Starr www.newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com