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Hey guys, I'm starting back up my 4x8 layout with fresh ideas and plans. My plan is to have some simple operations up top, and a lower staging below. I don't know if this in necessarily do-able with HO on a 4x8 though, but here's some pictures to help. The trackplan picture is the lower staging shelf. I need to revise it a bit more but that's the best I could come up with at the moment.
What are your thoughts?
Best regards,
Mike
EDIT: I just found out I can use 18" radius curves and be okay. So I will make revisions.
I must be missing something here! You have a helix from the lower staging deck to the layout deck, ok, but you want to the lower staging level to pull out like a drawer. How are you going to do that without disconnecting the Helix from one end or the other?
Heh, this is where it gets interesting. My plan was to have the deck simulate much what a bridge does (like one to get into an operating pit where you are surrounded by track). It's really hard to explain. It's in my head, but hard to show. Maybe I should hand draw some pictures?
Mike, I think I answered this once before. If you only have one track that goes up and down the helix and that one track then connects to the staging area, you need a way to connect the track electrically and mechanically when the drawer is slid in and out. Please read the other response I wrote, since I think it's the only way this will work.
Mike, I think I answered this once before. If you only have one track that goes up and down the helix and that one track then connects to the staging area, you need a way to connect the track electrically and mechanically when the drawer is slid in and out. Please read the other response I wrote, since I think it's the only way this will work.
