http://www.thortrains.net/trackplan/HOEZ1.html
http://www.thortrains.net/marx/funlayez2.html
Funny - I used a couple of these for 2 or 3 weeks then decided on switching over to flex track. I had too many problems with the EZ Track switches and crossings. I now set up EZ track layouts for the kids and their friends to step on........I mean play with.
My layout area is 10' x 7' 8", a bit larger than your space but shows what can be done with EZ-Track. It's HO and nickel-silver track and the curves are all 18" radius. The turnouts are #4's and #5's as indicated. You may be able to adapt part of it to your space. This is the track plan.
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SmallSpaces wrote:Where can I find layout plans using ez track. I have a 12 foot long space but only 4 foot wide.
Standard reply for your query:
Don't look for a website with "layout plans for space that is x by y feet".
Start by thinking through this:
1) What is your vision ? When you close your eyes and try to imagine your railroad done, what would you like to see ?
Olden times with small steam engines and short trains ? Big steam engines ? Mix of steam and diesel ? Modern diesels ? Electric trains ? Trams or traction ?
Urban backyards ? Rural ? Mountains ? Flatlands ? Coastal ?
Eastern ? Western ? Non-US ?
Passenger focus ? Freight focus ? Switching cars within a big industry (e.g. a Steel Mill or a Harbor) ? Servicing steam engines in a engine terminal - dumping ash, coaling, watering, washing engine, turntable, ready track, roundhouse ?
How do you picture yourself with the finished layout - rail fan watching trains pass by through the landscape ? Dispatcher setting up meets between multiple trains, trying to keep a timetable ? Engineer or conductor planning how to pick up one car and leave two cars at an industry dock ? Yard master deciding how to break up a train to form the cars into two new trains ?
Continuous run (where trains go round and round and you just sit back to watch) or point-to-point w/staging (where you have to run the trains all the time, but where you also can create a lot more realistic traffic for the middle of the layout ?
Lots and lots of tracks, as much as you can squeeze in ? Or more scenery, less tracks ?
And so on and so forth. First develop your vision. Then you know what is the most important factors to you. And don't take the lazy route and say "I want it all". Decide what is the _most_ important factors to you - the stuff you are not willing to trade away at all - if you can't have those things, you won't build a layout.
2) Then take a clue from how the real rail railroads do various things - like stations, industry tracks etc. Get a book by John Armstrong called "Track planning for realistic operations".
3) Now you are ready to start developing a track plan that would fit in the space you have available. When you sketch what space you have available - remember to leave space for the operator to reach things (e.g trains that derail, scenery that needs detailing etc). John Armstrongs book will help you there.
4) Ask for more advice once you have decided what you want to accomplish.
And do consider going N scale if one part of your vision is long trains or big yards or some such thing - N scale (1:160) makes a given space about 1.8 times bigger than H0 scale (1:87.1).
Good luck !
Smile, Stein
A few weeks ago ,,,can not remeber who...had some great ez track links and great track plans ..it may have been from the Bachman web site ....(HO or N ?)
You could have a nice layout with N scale ...
I do not have my plan on digits ....But I run a 4x9 four bridges EZ track layout with 4 turnouts and A double loop...
Pat
Thank you for the two........been there and done that .....lol