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 Posted - April 28 2017 : 12:28:34 AM
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Well, not really, but seeing his cool layout construction pics made me want to do something new.
Anyways, I've never had any luck with trying to diagram out anything, and have no knowledge
regarding CAD, I rather like noodling around with track and organically growing a track plan
with spare pieces. Kind of a right brain sort of process. Anyhows, I arrived at this scheme
that is an overlapping loop with one passing siding and one spur. Just because I like diamonds,
I threw an extra diamond in there to reach the spur. Since I couldn't find a proper angle in my
spare track box, I found this Hornby OO diamond. I think it will work fine...
All the turn outs are now moved closer to one side, along with the operating a
accessories, which will make it a lot easier to operate. The diamonds are also close
at hand should some go awry, there. Also, it opens up a little more real estate to
put weird Tyco things in there- high on my list is a gold mine and the Twin Peaks
that Micro showed off a few months ago (had to have one, at any cost).
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Posted - April 28 2017 : 07:01:10 AM
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Regarding the OO crossing, it should work 100% fine. OO and HO are the same gauge, OO just has bigger locomotives because when it came about, if you scaled a British locomotive down to HO, the motors of the time couldn't fit.
sim-al2
Also since they cut track maintaince the trains had huge trouble making over the railroad by the end
純那
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They did a Rock Island volountarily
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Posted - April 28 2017 : 10:24:37 PM
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quote:
Anyways, I've never had any luck with trying to diagram out anything, and have no knowledge
regarding CAD, I rather like noodling around with track and organically growing a track plan
with spare pieces. Kind of a right brain sort of process.
originally posted by Chops124Â -Â April 28 2017Â :Â 12:28:34 AM
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I'm the same way, I'll lay it out and move it around 'til the pieces fit. :D I may draw it out, hand-written crudely, to get a simple plan on paper, but since I don't envision a complex layout in my (near) future, I'm happy just to tinker with track and joiners for now.  I do have some plans for my Eldon tight radius track for some urban trackage. Or streetcar use. We'll see. I like what you did there.
Jerry
" When life throws you bananas...it's easy to slip up"
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Posted - April 29 2017 : 11:05:18 AM
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I ended up with one crossing, making for a nifty overlapping loop.
Still working on making it fit. Pleasant way to pass the time. Hopefully
it works.
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