Lazy 8 RR

[dwbeckett]

Food for thought, remove one layer of blocks on both planters and rase the lower section by one layer of blocks. That should give you a 4% or less grade. Hope that helps, BTY there is a excelent post on trestle bent buliding.  

[Tom The Brat]

Nice start!

You'll want to ease those grades a little. It might help if you got the low point on the underneath line under the bridge and continued the grade through the corners and the upper straight.

[zakowitz]

Thanks for the nice reply John,

    Great Idea about using the stones, and I am going to ease the grades also.

                                           Zak

[John Busby]

Hi Zak

I think you need to try and ease the grades a bit if you can.

Looks like a good start take the time to enjoy what you have for a while and find its limitations the ones you can change and improve on while you work out whats next.

Don't forget to re use the key stones or what ever it is that's created those two circular beds as the line grows.

Borrow a few books on your chosen theme and throw a couple of buildings together or maybe a very utilitarian loggers ?? miners coach just to make sure the theme is what you want

You now have a bit of breathing space to smell the roses and experiment.

regards John

[zakowitz]

 Some fellow in one of the many forum postings I have read in the past month or so said, "Just lay some track and run some trains." So I have. Here are some photos of what I have done so far:

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7392037@N05/sets/72157600010787853/

 

The temporary road bed is old 1x4 cedar decking that I had laying around. I cut it the same length as the track pieces to be put down , and arranged the cedar pieces into the figure 8. Then I just plopped the Aristo-Craft track on top. The Cedar will all come out and be replaced with either one long trestle or gravel road bed.  

Man what a trip! I have a couple of 7.9% grades, if I am calculating that right. (3.75 inches/4ft). So this initial set up will be a short haul logging or mining operation. I hope to add a ground level yard, station, and long haul freight and passenger routes later this year. I will have my hands full for a while building the trestle and rocking the grades to each circle. Anyway it has been a blast!   "Jump right in and run some trains", has been good advice so far.

 

                                   Regards,

                                                Zak