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Here is the background: The Vail is Vail, AZ, so this is a railroad located in the Sonoran Desert near Tucson. This is an N-scale layout in a corner of the garage. The theme is in the direction of the SP line through Southern Arizona, in the transition era. That said, I think there may be a time machine and space macchine involved, as almost anything from anywhere at any time could show up. The three main workers on the project are myself and my soon to be 17 and 18 year old sons, who have expressed considerable interest, and have put their money where their mouth is in purchasing some equipment in anticipation of the construction. They also built a 4x6 layout and installed the original Prodigy DCC system with almost no help, so I think I have assistance. (BTW, the prodigy will be replaced, and may go on to run a small HO layout for my two younger sons.) Anyway, the curves are no less that 16.5", and generally more, so we hope to run almost anything with reasonable sucess. A quick tour: There are wall to the bottom and left. The top and right are clear, but not devoted to railroad exclusively. The main yard is on the lower level, left side. At the rear of the yard is a fairly substantial paaenger station. Above the yard is the engine servicing area, with turntable. Leaving the yard towards the top you follow a loop around the pennisula, gradually climbing to the front tracks on the upper level. The staging area behind those tracks will be blocked from view froom the inside, but open on the outside. The upper level continues around the layout to the 4 turn helix (a hair over 2%) back to the lower level, and on around to the yard. Diverging from the main both above and below the yard are reversing tracks that climb up under the staging and join near the ends of the upper level main. I think I need to add just a bit to allow those to look like interchange tracks, although the original idea was that they look like industry tracks disappearing behind buildings, and I may still go that way. Now to post the pics: Level 1: [img.nr]http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/jlbaz/level1.jpg[/img.nr] Level 2: [img.nr]http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/jlbaz/level2.jpg[/img.nr] Any and all suggestions are welcome.... Edited messing with the image tags... This isn't how I really want this to look...I am trying to figure out how to have the little picture when you load the thread, and click to get the bigger one with the Close up in the corner. I am feeling less than bright.....
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