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Steve, I hope you don´t mind a few open words on the track plan! Here we go: Your "wiggly " track is too wiggly - it looks like badly laid track you may find in a logging operation, and not like the Sweeping curves you should go for The turnback curve seems rather tight. Anything below 24" should be avoided, even if your geared locos will negotiate sharper curves. I still question the douple track line in a narrow gauge operation. Your layout is basically a folded dogbone with spurs leading to the mine and the fiddle yard. I see a lot of sectional track used in the design - try to avoid that. As you know I am currently building an On30 layout myself. I have invested a lot of work and $$ in getting to where I am right now, only to find out, that there are a number of flaws in the design and the execution taking away the fun I had so far in building and operating it. I will most likely take the layout down and start all over again. It´s a big loss for me, which will be hard to recover,  but it´s better to bail out now before sinking more precious $$ into it and still not like it! You have a fairly large space available for your layout and I think you can do much better than this. Do a search with the key words "On30" "layout" and "track plan" and you will get tons of information.
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