CHIPJOplanNOT
Finaly I've got something to show you..
It is , as Chip wrote, designed from out a totaly other angel...
My thoughts where at a place/era in the ( wild) west somewhere IN the Rocky Mountains, end 18, start 19 th century. So there are a lot of curved tracks because there wasn't much space for tracks between the mountains
The layout is also designed only for small/short steam engines and cars, not the one they drive today( 40-60feet
)
I tried to give rockridge( the town/buildings a place on the layout but I could find/make it
So I only "put" the building of the Rockridge station on the bottom of the rightpart of the layout.
Traincity is situated on the left side : a down town part and an uptown part. The uptown part is made with only facades and a road before the buildings leading to...the wild west.
The dontown part consists out of some buildings at the other side of the stationbuilding: saloon(s) hotels, shop?
Because there is an uptown, about 4 inches higher than the trakcs at downtown, I think the "viewer"of the layout can see more of the landscape or trains. It is build upwards, you look almost against it and the details can be seen much better. It is more dramatical than building it on a "flat' way.
I tried to do the same on the right part: the "continuous run" line, the tracks to Train City and at the "bottom" the canyowith the "transperant" trestle....
And, don't forget it, we're at the Rocky Mountains so not much space( those days) Just like us mrr -ers today....
I will post the drawing of the "underground" : staging and "tunneltracks" as soon as poss. I am "working" on it
Jos