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Train Junky....if you have a 20x20 space you may want to consider a round the room with a Peninsula. and loops at the ends..essentaly only using 3 entire walls for the layout (as im not familiar with where the doors and windows if any are in your room). What i used to figure out the radius of the curves on my layout was by first measuring the area i had to play with. You see my layout was actually origionally my dads layout...but he no longer had the time and forfitted the whole thing to me...most of it was finished but of course i rebuilt a great deal of it to my specs. My layout fills our entire basement (making it roughly 35x60 with several indents and pushouts beacouse our house isnt a rectangle shape). But one of the pushouts is the area that is under the laundry room that connects to the garage (nothing under the garage but a slab). I measured the area which was 7x11. there was to be a horseshoe curve in that space so i took 7ft and then decided along the 11 ft where my curve would start. Roughly at 5.5 feet. So i took the 7ft x 5.5 feet and got 38.5. That 38.5 would be the maximum radius of the curve if the track were at the very edge of the benchwork...of course it isnt and its double tracked . But after i figured what the maximum radius is i simply moved the track in 4 inches from the edge of the benchwork knowing that if my max was 38.5..4 inches in would still keep it in the upper 30s. <br /> <br />I know thats probably a complicated mess to understand...but its one of the eaisest ways i know to get a "Rough" courve radius.
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