hi Chris and all the others
You are working on a great design. I also like the last elegant proposal. I am however a bit worried about the amount of track versus scenery. So some questions:
1)How do you want to place your layout in the room? Or which side is against a wall?
2)Do you consider hiding or conceiling part of the staging tracks (or the big interchange)?
3)The four track yard seems a bit big to me, storage could be done on cassettes as well.
4)Did you consider letting the low branch continue under the main till the edge of the table.(and add the casette at this point. Operationaly it could be another industrial zone and it would add some bridge traffic to the branch)
Go on with your great work. TMHO you are making an allready very good plan even better.Have funPaul
Paul:
I am worried about the amount of track vs. scenery.
Good point. It looks like Chris will need to use retaining walls to separate the vertical differences in the trackwork.
He could use the entire layout to model an industrial district in a large town, instead of each switching area being a different small town. The retaining walls would look more at home, as would the switcning areas being close to each other yet vertically different.
I think he could eliminate the fourth yard track and have enough yard storage and add more room for scenery to transition the the elevated area.
- Douglas