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<p>I have a 11' by 11' room I am building a layout for myself and grandchildren. I love a challenge and am looking forward to this. I need to know some of the basics that all of you know but I have not found yet. My lay out will be HO and am planning no turns smaller then 22" radius, I will go out of this room into a closet of what ever size it takes and build a helix and come back into the train room at an upper level. Some questions I have are how close can a set of tracks be to another, does that change on curves or switch yards. I sometime have trouble visualizing tracks going over one and another. Should the helix be a double or just a single and when do you go from one to another. I am in my 60 and about to retire because of my health. I have trouble with my back and bending, is it okay to install a small section that is removeable and what would some of the controling features to a removeable section.</p><p>Thanks for your help,</p><p>Grandpa McGuire</p>
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