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Dave, Good job on your track plan. I would suggest that you set up some standards. Such as minmium radius and turn out size and benchwork height. I would then re-draw the plan with a track plan stencil. It will give a more accurate sense of how things will fit. A couple of classic errors that I see here are not allowing enough space for switches (a no 6 is a foot long in HO scale). Your yard throat will definately be a lot longer than you have shown here. Another classic is not allowing enough space for accurate curves. I when you use the planing tool some of your spacing will change here as well. I would also consider more storage and possibly staging for long trains. Your bench work is pretty wide. It might be difficult to reach some of the areas to uncouple cars etc, particularly in the back of your penninsulas. I might re-arrange things to put track closer to the front or make the benchwork narrower. My two cents, Guy
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