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I'm not sure I can explain what I'm thinking,and I draw worse than I write, but here goes... The mountains stop about 3' in from each end of the board, so the center 2' doesn't have any mountains. the upper track, the one that is part of the oval, is flat on the base board all the way around. It exits one mountain, crosses across a couple ft of open board, then enters another tunnel into the other mountain. In other words, then entire outer oval is flat on the board, and just going under the mountains via tunnels. The coal mine is on top of the left-hand mountain. So to get there, the track starts from the center, curves up the inner face of the right-hand mountain, across a bridge over that 2' gap, and onto the other mountain. The left hand mountain will be high enough that it'll be about a 6-7% grade to get up there. Combined with the 15" radius curves, that means a small engine and 1-2 small-ish hopper cars The gap will probably be a dirt road leading into a mirror or backdrop. If that looks bad, it'll just be a gap in the mountains. No water for now -- I've had bad luck trying to make water look right in dioramas I've built. There will be various buildings along the spurs -- I took them out for this drawing to make it less complicated. Thanks, dave.
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