cowman What is the location of your layout? As suggested, if it is in the mountains, river bottoms can be far below the tracks. If you are running a shoreline railroad near a harbor, there might only be a few feet below the bridge. A pond or lake could be above the tracks, as ledge and natural terrain hold water in ponds in the mountains as well as the valley bottoms. Good luck, Richard
What is the location of your layout? As suggested, if it is in the mountains, river bottoms can be far below the tracks. If you are running a shoreline railroad near a harbor, there might only be a few feet below the bridge. A pond or lake could be above the tracks, as ledge and natural terrain hold water in ponds in the mountains as well as the valley bottoms.
Good luck,
Richard
Yes it is a good variety if all that you described from end to end.
lynn
Lynn
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gandydancer19 Think about the rivers or streams that you have seen in your travels around different places. Think about how fishermen access them. 15 feet seems a little far down to me. I would go for 10 feet maybe at the most. Of course if you are in the maountains it would be farther down in a lot of cases.
Think about the rivers or streams that you have seen in your travels around different places. Think about how fishermen access them. 15 feet seems a little far down to me. I would go for 10 feet maybe at the most. Of course if you are in the maountains it would be farther down in a lot of cases.
I did raise the low end so it has a bit more room to play with for a water way. I kinda thought to myself after I posted the question, man what a dumb question, end of thought lol.
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Elmer.
The above is my opinion, from an active and experienced Model Railroader in N scale and HO since 1961.
(Modeling Freelance, Eastern US, HO scale, in 1962, with NCE DCC for locomotive control and a stand alone LocoNet for block detection and signals.) http://waynes-trains.com/ at home, and N scale at the Club.
Now that I've posted where I'm at I would like to ask this question as it is one of my many struggles, I want to add slow moving deep rivers/canals not so much to the perimeters of the layout but more to the interior and build up the area around them with structures etc. To go abouts this should the river bottoms be sitting on the grid top as plywood or hardboard so to speak at the very lowest elevation of the entire layout? Should the track bed then be raised high enough on its risers higher than the level I now have them for the most part? Would the distance from the river bed then be 10-15 scale feet below the ground work or roadbed then everything else be build up above that? I would also like to add that seeing as I'm still not 100% sure where the rivers would go as structures still have not found there permanent home yet if the river bottom is to be placed at the lowest point being the grid top would I be further ahead simply filling in ontop of the grid where theres no track bed risers with some sort of base?
Thanks all suggestions welcome
Hi Guys I've been moving ahead slowly with the new layout . Benchwork has been up for a while in the two rooms and trackplan, well trackplan is pretty firm as per mainline and roadbed has all been installed along with turnouts which are ran by tortoise switches controlled by ds64 stationary decoders. Mainline has been tested with all my steam engines smallest to largest as well as my f7 A&B units, all adjustments made. I would like to add more interior layout canals and rivers as well as there will be a 3foot lond curved trestle which I picked up the kit a few weeks back. Just the other day I got an idea to cut away some benchwork and add the old river bottom ( from old layout) back into the mix attached to the waterfall which a trestle will cross. The layout will also have a wharf scene and although I did the benchwork and designing in a specific area I'm starting to think I need more like one of the 4 foot legs to do it in a proper way. Ive uploaded perhaps too many pics of the layout from end to end to try to give as much detail as I could. I will be the first to admit, this has been a very large decision making struggle and its ongoing.