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Posted by wickman on Thursday, July 10, 2014 6:39 AM

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

 

Thanks Richard

Yes it is a good variety if all that you described from end to end.

lynn

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Posted by cowman on Wednesday, July 9, 2014 11:01 PM

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

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Posted by wickman on Wednesday, July 9, 2014 7:54 PM

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.

 

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. 

Thanks

Lynn

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Posted by gandydancer19 on Wednesday, July 9, 2014 5:20 PM

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.

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.

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Posted by wickman on Wednesday, July 9, 2014 2:46 PM

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

Lynn

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New Layout
Posted by wickman on Wednesday, July 9, 2014 2:35 PM

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.

 

 

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