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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by leighant A 20 x 19 foot room? I think of layout as linear track running through a scene. Such as an 18 inch shelf with track, a 3 feet aisle and another 18 shelf on the other side of the aisle. In a 20 foot room, you can have 3 aisle-and-track-on each-side combinations, each 6 feet 8 inches wide. (That makes each shelf 22 inches wide.) Suppose the aisle is S-shaped--starts in one corner of the room along one wall, makes a U turn at the end of the room and goes back through the middle of the room, then another U turn to end at the opposite corner from where it started. The track runs on a shelf generally 22 inches wide. The end curves on inside pninsulas may need a little more width to keep radius from being too tight, have to take that out of the shelf on opposite side or make aisle narrower just at that point. The track would go back and forth six times the length of the room. 19 feet x 6 = 114 feet plus a little extra on the ends. Background down peninsulas keeps you from seeing more than one route going past at any point. Like a map, right is always east, left is always west, regardless which way anything is in the original room. This is the concept behind David Barrow's older layouts. Santa Fe in West Texas. See some of his articles such as article _Model Railroader_ Feb75 radio control throttle related to track plan, _RMC_ Dec78 p.85 article RR Mod Craftsman Nov79 p.78 passenger operations 50s, Mod RRer Mar80 p.62 Expanding the Cat Mtn, Mod RRer, Aug79 p.60 Rebuilding & Updating, Mod RRer, May84 p.66 "Today's Cat Mtn" Great Mod RRs 92 p.26 yard throat design, Summit & Mesa _Mod RR Planning 97_ p.84 "25 Years on the Cat Mtn" _ModRRer_ Sep99 p.56 [/quote] Thank you for the information.. I will try to find those articles. Thanks again. Peace. Coyote
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