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Trainnut71

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Hello Everyone, I have been away from the hobby for a few years and now it’s time to get back into it.
I am planning 2 decks.
30”min radius
The lower deck will have the yard and some industrial.
The upper will be mostly logging.

Here is the planned bench work.
I have tried a few different ways and always come back to this.

Thoughts on the bench work?
 

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I like the concept. Having three sided access to your turn arounds will be nice. I had to model it up in SCARM to see if you've given yourself enough room. Looks like you did. Are you planning on two helixes on each end, just one, or going for a point to point design?

I entered into a complete teardown and rebuild to my own layout and got sidetracked due to multiple issues. It's been about a year and a half since I've done much work. Finally getting back into it. Been hard to find the motivation. Looking at threads like this helps. :D
Love to see this come together.
 
I need to get some software 🤣
Do you like SCARM?
Top left is the planned helix area and this will be doubled main throughout.
I have a concept drawing I will post
 
Looks you are off to a good start. I wonder ... if there is room under the stairs, you might think about putting your 'Mountain' there as access to that back track/scenery where it is now could be a killer.

The top 12' and 16' - is that a wall? If so, access to the track/scenery from the isleway is quite a reach. I have wrestled with the benchwork widths and have found that I can only reach in 28 or so inches on the lower level, less than that on the upper without knocking stuff around. Middle blob is the same for reach in.

Later
 
I should have mentioned that 2 squares is a foot

Yes that is a 28’ wall that has a 1 foot bump out
The Mountain would be on the second deck
 
Trainnut71 said:
I should have mentioned that 2 squares is a foot

Yes that is a 28’ wall that has a 1 foot bump out
The Mountain would be on the second deck
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Do you have another image that is not shown? The two images above show 1 square = 1 foot?
 
The 2 drawings are different scales.
The first one from original post is 1 foot per square. I needed to make it bigger to draw in some track ideas and locations so I drew it again at 2 squares per foot.
 
Trainnut71 said:
The 2 drawings are different scales.
The first one from original post is 1 foot per square. I needed to make it bigger to draw in some track ideas and locations so I drew it again at 2 squares per foot.
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Sorry, guess that I can't count!
 
Trainnut71 said:
I need to get some software 🤣
Do you like SCARM?
Top left is the planned helix area and this will be doubled main throughout.
I have a concept drawing I will post
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Yes, SCARM is really good (in my opinion). The free version can really help get you started and see if you like it and, if you do, then you can purchase a license for it.
 
Took some time and drew this up.
2’ aisle
Currently rads are 31/33

Lower Left is the helix to upper

Should I just run a single main once through and hide it back to the helix / maybe lower staging?
I like the double track but not sure….
 

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