Happy Curmudgeon
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Several years ago, I caught the bug and built the basic table for a layout and pretty much ended up with a single large oval laid on a 9 X 6 framework consisting of 18" X 6 modules screwed together, at which point I began accumulating engines and rolling stock at an alarming rate with no real plan, most of what I bought was on a whim, bring it home, run it around the track a few times and box it back up and never actually progressed on the railroad. Train room became a catch all, the layout became a table for that purpose, other interests, running a business etc and several years later, fresh from a summer vacation out west to Yellowstone and back, I found myself looking at the door to the train room, and a couple weeks before Christmas, opened it. Several large tubs and bags to the garbage, and everything organized again, a ton of stuff put on CraigsList, and a trip to the hobby store tomorrow night and I am ready to turn this into a proper layout, a completely fictitious line based solely on how I want to play with my trains.
This is what I'm starting with:
This is the first phase of the plan and the main line, the "yard" in the lower right hand corner is elevated at 4", there will be two ramps at 4% and an 18" bridge, should have more than enough NS sectional track to do it three times over:
This is what I'm starting with:
This is the first phase of the plan and the main line, the "yard" in the lower right hand corner is elevated at 4", there will be two ramps at 4% and an 18" bridge, should have more than enough NS sectional track to do it three times over: