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<p>[quote user="ATLANTIC CENTRAL"]</p> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">BMMECNYC</div> <div class="quote-content"> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">SeeYou190</div> <div class="quote-content">If this were not true, the book "101 Track Plans" would have been "1 Track Plan."</div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>If you apply the litmus test of no track more than 3 feet from a place where you can stand, it becomes 47 track plans (or something like that).  </p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>Does that include access hatches and "service only" aisles?</p> <p>I keep trying to build "shelf" layouts, and find myself always wanting "deeper" scenes.</p> <p>The new layout will have some 42" deep benchwork against walls (with stagging yards all the way at the back, behind a backdrop) and two 8' wide peninsulas to accommodate 44" radius curves. </p> <p>Sheldon</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>Yep, access is access.  I did a straight forward evaluation based on the fact its hard to build and maintain something you cant reach, topside creeper not withstanding.   I deemed about 47 of these layouts "buildable" based on that requirement.</p> <p>Sometimes it is unavoidable to need a deeper scene.  Its not easy to build a wye without a deep scene.  Especially if you want all three legs of the wye to be actual routes with no stub ends (there is a LDE I want to include, but I dont think it will fit in my space well).</p>
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