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David, I don't want to throw a huge wrench into your plans - but just want to throw this out there: the concept of the trains "entering and leaving the scene only once". I put this in quotes because I've read many of the more recent top-notch track planning guru's articles about this. You could eliminate your tight curves this way - you'd end up with a lift-up or hinged section, and your trains could be run point to point, or when you just want to sit back and watch-em-run, you could let them run around the loop. Just a concept that I find quite interesting. A good recent example of this is Pelle Soeborg's layout featured quite a bit in MR this year. It's an extremely fine looking layout, and the track plan is extremely simple. Extremely, yet so beautiful. Also, (you asked for it man...) the plan looks pretty ambitious. You mentioned your modeling skills range from "beginner to not much better". I'm probably about the same. This is why I thought I'd call attention to the ambitious-ness of your layout. In any case, congratulations on diving in. It looks like you'll be in for a fun ride!!! (sorry this post sounds so negative... just pointing out a couple concepts before you dive in with big $$$$). Looks like fun!!!
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