Just thought that I would post a pic of the last part of my nolix. I chose not to connect it to the lower part of the layout here, so I built a long bridge suspended by a sky hook. The track is ME bridge track with all the details installed. (Bridge girders, guard timbers, guard rails, and fire barrel platforms complete with barrels.)
The redish effect on the sky/wall above the bridge is a result of my trying to get the details and color beter in the photo.
Elmer.
The above is my opinion, from an active and experienced Model Railroader in N scale and HO since 1961.
(Modeling Freelance, Eastern US, HO scale, in 1962, with NCE DCC for locomotive control and a stand alone LocoNet for block detection and signals.) http://waynes-trains.com/ at home, and N scale at the Club.
I assume that's a #4 skyhook....they're the most common and even Home Despot carries 'em.
That's quite a bridge.....I'd leave it just the way it is, it's just the right touch of surrealism to make rivet-counters question your sanity......
Bill
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Allow me to show my ignorance - what is a "nolix"?
majortom
majortom wrote: Allow me to show my ignorance - what is a "nolix"? majortom
It's the absence of a "helix"....courtesy of the late, great John Armstrong.
To expand on what majortom wrote on the matter of the Nolix. It is a transition from an upper and lower deck of a layout without using a helix. Usually a long gradual climb, but it could be a series of switch-backs on mountain logging railroad.
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