Even so, Stein, looks to me like you nailed it.
Rich
Alton Junction
richhotrain Stein, Thnaks for taking the time to draw this diagram. It is very helpful while watching the video. Let's see if Batman agrees with your drawing. Rich
Stein,
Thnaks for taking the time to draw this diagram. It is very helpful while watching the video. Let's see if Batman agrees with your drawing.
Well, he would probably point out the three tracks in red below missing, and probably add some more details inside the double curl blob at upper right.
Grin, Stein
Thanks for taking the time to draw this diagram. It is very helpful while watching the video. Let's see if Batman agrees with your drawing.
richhotrain Brent, That is very cool. How big is that layout? It appears to be huge. Can you post a track plan?
Brent,
That is very cool. How big is that layout?
It appears to be huge.
Can you post a track plan?
Track schematic seemingly looks like a dogbone, folder once in the middle, with the right end lobe coiled once.
One passing siding on the lobe next to the fireplace, one passing siding on the inner coil on the other lobe, one connection from the inner to the outer coil. Couple of industry tracks inside inner coil at one end, one on the outside of the loop at the other end. Like this:
If this is H0 (and I think it is), I'd guesstimate track radius around 30" or so - maybe a little bigger, making the tables about 5 1/2 feet wide at their widest point. - so figure a room maybe 12 x 14 feet or a little bigger? .
No apparent staging, and built more for watching trains run than for operations, but it sure looks great to watch the trains run. I loved the effect of letting the two trains run at different speeds in the same direction so they met at different spots during the loop.
Nice long run, Brent, and nice steady camera work, too.
Wayne
Nice videos, guys. I wish I had that much room to work with.
-Ed
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." -Aristotle
Nice video Brent.
OK here's a new video I just shot this weekend. Commemorating the very first train through the wall, into my expansion room layout.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Woblq5tN8c
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Great.
Russell
Here is an old video of my layout. Be warned, quality is not great and it is long but it gives an idea of my track plan. So watch none of it , a bit of it, or all of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXrYeMHw5j0
I Double Dog Dare all of you, to post a video of your layouts so as we can get a better understanding of them. Still photo's are great but video's give us the whole picture. So post away! On board cameras permitted.
Let's see those layouts.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."