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    Mimic Panel Design

    Lot's of great information on this site, thank you for the link!
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    Mimic Panel Design

    I think I have it figured out, I drew this up in JMRI Panels:
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    Mimic Panel Design

    Hello fellow modelers, I am not sure if this is the right forum for this question, so I will move it if I need to. I would like to create a mimic panel to manage my switch matrix but I have never put one together. I am not sure how to layout the panel in the most simple design that...
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    Starting my first Layout.

    Thank you! I wanted to give it some clean lines as I spend a lot of time in here. It almost feels art-deco with the curves. The cut-out in the back was actually my wife's suggestion, I was just going to keep it off the wall but that took away real estate, and she suggested a cut-out in the...
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    Starting my first Layout.

    Thank you for the warm welcome. I do tend to overthink things a bit, it's an occupational hazard in my line of work. I wanted to be sure there was access everything, I think I have designed enough room, time and experience will tell :). I have so much to learn about signaling, rules, CV...
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    Starting my first Layout.

    I'm going to work on the yard a bit. I'll look for some videos on yard management and see if I can't work that a bit better and add sorting track, great suggestion, thank you. I do have a pullman set that I can use to test the curve spacing. Since those are pretty long, it should give me a...
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    Starting my first Layout.

    Hello All.... I am excited to start my first real, semi-permanent HO scale model train layout. I have been gifted quite a bit of stock and engines and made a 4x8 table with the old track. I am in IT by trade, so my immediate interest was in building my own DCC setup with opensource...
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