Hi All, How many of you are familiar with the layout & planning book by Bernard Kempinski, if you are there's a plan , plan #42, a simple walk in around the wall layout, I plan to build this plan, now I would like to add another level to this plan, just to make the mailine a bit longer in the space I have, the upper level would end in a reversal loop, would this be a good idea?? Thanks Guys,
Trainsrme1
Union Pacific Coos Bay Subdivision.
Do you have any real experience with multi-deck layouts?
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I have, and I do not like them.
If you like them, you should build one. I am not familiar with the track plan. Is there room for a helix, or would youi need a steep grade to get to the second level?
-Kevin
Living the dream.
I would like to have a grade up to the next level,
What scale are you building? How much separation do you want between the lower level and the bottom of the upper level? For HO I would suggest a minimum of 15-16" depending on the depth of the lower and upper levels. If you add the height of deck separation and the height of the upper deck then you will know how much climb you need between the lower and upper level.
If we assume a max grade of 2.5% (less than 2% would be better) and a lower track to upper track climb of 15" (deck to deck separation) + 3" (upper deck height) = 18" @ 2.5% = 720" = 60 ft run of track to climb 18".
Modeling an HO gauge freelance version of the Union Pacific Oregon Short Line and the Utah Railway around 1957 in a world where Pirates from the Great Salt Lake founded Ogden, UT.
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Hi Onewolf,
I'm sorry I forgot to say that I'm building in Nscale, I think I will have a partial upper level, meaning that the mainline will decend on one side of the layout, then once up on the upper level, it will go into a reversal loop.