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N-Scale Track Plan--Close Now Time to Nit-Pick
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[quote user="SpaceMouse"] <p>This is a first draft of a layout. The biggest problem I have is that I just can't picture the size--I mean those N thingies are itty bitty. The dimensions of the layout is 3 x 7--and I'm not married to that size. The main purpose of this layout is for rail-fanning while I figure out what I'm going to do with my basement.</p><p>The layout is modern Buffalo & Pittsburgh coal country. But the B&P hauls lumber and does locals. </p><p>I picture the bottom half of the layout as a hillside coal operation. The top half is industrial/rural switching. I have a couple factories, a freight dock and a junkyard. I don't have to use them. There is no backdrop down the middle, but the hillside will prevent seeing the one side seeing the other. </p><p>The top two tracks are kinda sorta visible staging. I would not be opposed to dropping down a level for off table staging.</p><p>I'll take any and all suggestions. </p><p>[/quote]</p><p>Since it will be a two sided layout, and it will be all that you have for a year or so; I would suggest that you take that second track down and make it into another loop. This will give you a double main line and let you have one train run in circles while you switch with another. I think that having two trains in operation at the same time will greatly increase the interest factor.</p><p> </p>
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