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If you follow the advice in this thread -> http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=41793 you will space your tracks at roughly 2" apart. If you start 2" from each edge, you can fit 17 tracks across 3 feet. Once you allow for a ladder at one end, your longest tracks will be something like 6-7 feet, with the shortest being something like 3-4 feet. If it's a double ended yard, you will have less room. (As a comparison, at our modular club, we have two portable yards that are about 24' long with 7-8 tracks plus double main line). If you are creating this yard just for staging, you can gain more room by building a sector plate instead of a ladder (also saves $$$ on turnouts [;)]) or treating the whole "yard" like a transfer table and mounting it on drawer slides. Andrew
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