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TZ, It looks simply amazing! I'm impressed beyond my ability to express... and a little lost [:I] Im not sure I followed the discription you gave on the second drawing in terms of where the tunnels would be, however these are amazing designs! Once again I can not thank you enough. Coyote P.S. Have you ever heard of a program called 3rd PlanIt? I just recently got it and looks very intresting, thought you might be intrested. [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Texas Zepher Here is the dog-bone saga. I did my initial idea (sort of an "E" shape) only to find out there was not enough space to do it maintaining the 24" / 26.25" minimum radius curves. So I just dog-boned the original design (below). I did not find it so interesting. So with a major change in thought I came up with dog-bone two (a most primative version also below). The problem with it is that to get this shape I really had to pinch some of the isles down to two feet. Very crowded, especially if one is trying to show off the trains to a group of people. Dog Bone 1 [img]http://www.walkersquawker.net/images/dog bone.jpg[/img] The separation of the two tracks at the one point is due to a picture I have where at one point the Santa Fe only had a single track over a river. When they added the second bridge for the second track is was down river about 100 yards and at a slightly different angle, making a quite dramatic scene. Dog Bone 2 [img]http://www.walkersquawker.net/images/dog bone 2.jpg[/img] Here the dog bone "loops" (upper right and upper left) would be in tunnels under the other trackage. The boring long straight track along long straight edges of the layout could be replaced by sweeping curves. And then my final thought. On the original design simply replace the loop in the lower left (just past the staging area) with two loops one on top of each other and Walla dog bone layout. The problem with that is the train would have to pass all the way through the layout twice (once in each direction) to get back to the staging yard. Or if you're up to the engineering add a helix and have a layout that can operate as a loop or dog bone layout. [/quote]
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