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QUOTE: Originally posted by JohnT14808 Heck, Red, we didn't even bother. The helix hits you right in the face when entering our club. So we just made a nice curved wall with a BIG window in it so visitors could watch the trains going up and down the double track helix. It's really a draw when running a 4 engine consist pulling about 65 freight cars. The train takes up three levels of the five in the helix. We did cover the top of the helix with scenery. As soon as I get the rest of the pictures loaded from our recent County Fair, I'll give out the URL on Rail Images for all to see. We have two helixes, one at either end of the layout. One has farming and industrial scene on top and the other has mountain logging and mining action, complete with three different wooden bridges and water scenes.
QUOTE: Originally posted by JohnT14808 Heck, Red, we didn't even bother. The helix hits you right in the face when entering our club. So we just made a nice curved wall with a BIG window in it so visitors could watch the trains going up and down the double track helix. It's really a draw when running a 4 engine consist pulling about 65 freight cars.
QUOTE: Originally posted by KenLarsen QUOTE: Originally posted by JohnT14808 Heck, Red, we didn't even bother. The helix hits you right in the face when entering our club. So we just made a nice curved wall with a BIG window in it so visitors could watch the trains going up and down the double track helix. It's really a draw when running a 4 engine consist pulling about 65 freight cars. SP didn't bother to hide their helix (Tehacheppi Loop)[xx(][(-D] (Sorry - couldn't resist!)
QUOTE: Originally posted by tatans A real goofy question: Can a helix be hidden BELOW the level of the layout?? would it be called a helix? the concept would be to get the train from the operating level to some other part of the layout, would it matter if it was above or below as long as the train arrived at another location on the layout, remember there is a LOT of space unused uneder the layout, or am I just nuts?