hon30critter Hi Nerfball6: I've been following your thread with interest, and your track plan is developing nicely. I have one small suggestion. On the lower right side of your penninsula you have three side tracks. Two of the tracks are formed by placing one turnout in what I will call the 'run around' and the second turnout below that in the spur. I think there is space to put the second turnout in the run around instead of in the spur. That will give you three separate spurs and more than twice the available storage space than your current configuration does. Using smaller turnouts might make the change easier. If my description isn't clear, I can draw up a track plan for the area. Dave
Hi Nerfball6:
I've been following your thread with interest, and your track plan is developing nicely.
I have one small suggestion. On the lower right side of your penninsula you have three side tracks. Two of the tracks are formed by placing one turnout in what I will call the 'run around' and the second turnout below that in the spur. I think there is space to put the second turnout in the run around instead of in the spur. That will give you three separate spurs and more than twice the available storage space than your current configuration does. Using smaller turnouts might make the change easier.
If my description isn't clear, I can draw up a track plan for the area.
Dave
Thanks Dave. I liked that suggestion.
carl425 In case you haven't started the benchwork yet, I think you'd find the whole layout easier for operators and visitors to walk around if you were to attach the penninsula to the top section of the layout.
In case you haven't started the benchwork yet, I think you'd find the whole layout easier for operators and visitors to walk around if you were to attach the penninsula to the top section of the layout.
Thanks Carl425. You are right that it would open it up to more visitors if the penninsula was at the top. I went back and forth with that myself when I started designing the layout. I also played with the idea of a dogbone style layout. But in the end, I liked the idea of following the train around from it's entrance at the staging, through the small town, through the countryside, to the yard, and finally to the penninsula. With the layout presenting itself as you walk through. Most of the time it will just be me operating, at most one or two others. I made sure to have 3-foot isles all the way around. So it shouldn't be too hard to maneuver.
Only thing I would change is on the large yard you end all the yard tracks in a line, you have the space so some could be longer than others.