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[quote user="pcarrell"] <p>Other then some rather obvious "S" turn issues (which you alluded to already) I don't see any reason that this couldn't serve as the basis for a fine beginners RR, provided you can reach everything on that big table without crushing foreground scenery. </p><p>I would suggest that the center branch could even be slightly elevated to introduce some visual interest. Even and inch or two would do wonders to add realism and draw the eye away from the fact that this is really a simple loop plan (not that there's anything wrong with that). It would also make the layout seem larger. One last thing.....I don't know if you'll have room to do it or not (you might have to remove a couple of straight sections from the end curves to do this), but I'd at least look at skewing the plan slightly on the table. Again, this makes the plan look larger as the eye has a tendency to automatically try to figure out sizes of objects with straight lines (like table edges) and not having tracks running parallel to the edges tends to cause the eye not to do that, and therefore your layout looks bigger.</p><p>Overall, good plan that has a lot of potential!</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>Thank you for the feedback. I have recently been visualizing this as an actual track plan more and more. Raising the middle has been one of those thoughts. It would serve three purposes for me. One seperate areas of interest. I was thinking of actually making it more of a yard area in that space. Two with the rased area I could create a tunnel hidding one of the loops onto the mainline. Three with it being raised I could create a bridge, over the mainline loop, from the yard that could go to future expansion / staging / ect to bring trains into the yard.</p><p>I don't know how that all just popped into my head. I wonder if I could grade that correctly coming out of the yard around that first turn?</p>
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