Coffee table layout & multi-level track

[Anonymous]

I'm thinking of making a coffee table with a N scale with a glass top but haven't told the other half yet but will talk to her about it when i have orgnised a good case lol.
She is not that bad she encrouges me (not that i need it!) :B

[Anonymous]

I'm thinking of making a coffee table with a N scale with a glass top but haven't told the other half yet but will talk to her about it when i have orgnised a good case lol.
She is not that bad she encrouges me (not that i need it!) :B

[Anonymous]

Multiple levels and extra mainline run is well worth the slight extra complexity in construction. Just try to allow cleaning access for your crossover spots. Keep grades 3% or less with vertical easements (especially at the bottoms) so body ,oumted coupler trip pins don't hang up on turnout parts or outer rails on graded curves. Also, if using styrofoam for an upper level\ yard, place a thin flat piece of plywood under the turnout ladder to keep them all flat - styrofoam can have small thickness variations that cause leading pilots to mis-track turnout points.

[Anonymous]

Multiple levels and extra mainline run is well worth the slight extra complexity in construction. Just try to allow cleaning access for your crossover spots. Keep grades 3% or less with vertical easements (especially at the bottoms) so body ,oumted coupler trip pins don't hang up on turnout parts or outer rails on graded curves. Also, if using styrofoam for an upper level\ yard, place a thin flat piece of plywood under the turnout ladder to keep them all flat - styrofoam can have small thickness variations that cause leading pilots to mis-track turnout points.

[dustyg]

I model in N scale. At present, the only space I have for a layout will be in a coffee table that a furniture-making friend is building for me. The internal dimensions are roughly 27 1/2 inches wide by 48 inches long, by about 6 inches high.

I'm currently drawing the track plan, and am trying to decide between keeping the track on one level, and letting the scenery rise and fall around it, or doing some kind of folded dogbone arrangement and having the track cross over itself - a similar arrangement was featured in the Sept., 2001, MR.

I'd like to hear opinions about the aggravation and complexity of multiple levels, but gaining twice as much mainline distance, versus keeping a simpler but shorter, one-level track plan.

I will cross-post this to the main forum. I'd love to hear from you on a forum, or e-mail me directly with your thoughts ([e-mail]). Thanks!

Dusty Garison

[dustyg]

I model in N scale. At present, the only space I have for a layout will be in a coffee table that a furniture-making friend is building for me. The internal dimensions are roughly 27 1/2 inches wide by 48 inches long, by about 6 inches high.

I'm currently drawing the track plan, and am trying to decide between keeping the track on one level, and letting the scenery rise and fall around it, or doing some kind of folded dogbone arrangement and having the track cross over itself - a similar arrangement was featured in the Sept., 2001, MR.

I'd like to hear opinions about the aggravation and complexity of multiple levels, but gaining twice as much mainline distance, versus keeping a simpler but shorter, one-level track plan.

I will cross-post this to the main forum. I'd love to hear from you on a forum, or e-mail me directly with your thoughts ([e-mail]). Thanks!

Dusty Garison