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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Texas Zepher This isn't the same space you had originally posted, is it? What happened, switch rooms? First I noticed there are lots of "switchback" industrial sidings. There are no assoicated run around tracks. There needs to be some way to let the locomotive get to the other side of the cars. Then some of the leads on the switchbacks (like the one on the left with the loco house? are too short. They must be able to hold the loco and at least one car. I think I would try to fit at least one industry in the area "outside" the room. Lower left or right corners. Could be really interesting. The tracks are all very aligned to the edges of the benchwork. Just a tiny bit of angle or curvature in the tracks can add some interest. Same for the highway, two long exactly straight sections at 90 degrees to one another .... Then the opposite for your grade crossings, I think the road would turn a little bit to hit the rails closer to a 90 degree crossing. The two towns (top and right side) seem very samesh {If I can invent a word}. They both have lots of parallel track. Here is a rather fuzzy picture of modular layout under construction that is 2 feet wide. Notice now not parallel or lined up with the bench work the track are. [img]http://www.walkersquawker.net/images/horizontal W skirts small.JPG[/img] Edit Again:---> Looking at this again ... While the two towns could be considered 4 because of how they are arranged on "sides" of the main (with only one crossover "in" a town). I think I would move or re-move the track to the rear of the mains and let the mains take up that extra space. I would also change the radius on the outside main curve to 28.5" radius. I mean the track is already taking up that much space might as well use it to increase the radius. [/quote] TZ, Hello my friend, good to see ya! The man that set me on the right "track" early on! [;)] Yes Sir as you astutely gauged the OL and I did indeed abandon the Garage for a Spare Bedroom. We looked into the total cost of making the garage fit for the layout and when the figure hit 4K+ even with us doing most of the work ourselves we moved on to use the spare bedroom at least for now [^] I've tried to add some run arounds and will be posting the new plan tonight I hope. [:)] Many have pointed out the tracks running parallel to the edge and I'm trying to fix that but it's still boggling me so that fight goes on, hopefully I'll figure out an elegant way to fix that, still havent though. "An industry outside the room", could ya tell me more what ya mean on that one, Im not quite getting it. I took your advice and did indeed increase my outer curve radii and it worked out just fine as you predicted *nods* I increased the outer curves to 28" and did a full recheck of all my track centers. As always TZ thank you for your sagely imput, I look forward to hearing your fedback on the improved plan. Peace. Coyote
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