OK gents and ladies I’d like your opinions, is this a good/intresting idea or just plain silliness?
Ideas, suggestions, laughter?
Peace.
Coyote
grandpa,
What are the layout dimensions? And Radius of the curves?
My only concern is the S-Curves and if you would be running long trans?
My head hurts just looking at it. If you rest the whole thing on a sort of Lazy Susan, THAT could make things interesting. Rotate the layout while train is running would make the train stationary to an outside observer. Sort of The Watcher sort of thing… bwahahahaha…
Madness, you asked [:D]
If I had that space I would build a ‘around the wall’ layout, maybe 2 decks.
It’s just plain silliness! Try something with less curves so that way the train will be able to stay on better. So, my opinion is to try something in the “less curves categorie”.
Well, you have to admit that it’s original… I’ll leave it at that [:D]. Good luck, Dave
You may find that an around the walls design with a peninsula or two would give more layout area. I would also be a little concerned about the distance to the middle of the “leaves.” Is this area reachable?
Looks good for a test track, all curves! No space for sidings. If you had a really big spae and extended the arms out like a big cross - there could be some merit to a plan like that if you really were against the idea of around the walls - sort of like a great big modular setup.
–Randy
Too much symetry. S-curves are asking for trouble. No space for a yard. Just how skinny are you, anyway???
Around the room, if room I’d stick in a peninsula with a “shortcut” behind it. Give me continuous running on at least 2 seperate lines, plus some good switching a and yard. A siding or two from the main lines, mountains, industries, an addition on my house for all of the layout…
Mark in Utah
too silly . no where to add passing tracks , yards or sidings . if you just want to watch trains run a 4x8 with an oval of track would be easier and less expensive to build , the trains would look better on it too .
back to the drawing board !
[:D]
A variaton to give you some straight runs, make it multilevel. have a Xover ( Diamond ) on one level, then ramp up to a bridge for crossing another. Add a Tunnel and Cut or two. You could build it, photograph it, write an article on it since it’s so out there, then dismantle it or auction it off. It is origional. Dave
Besides all that has already been mentioned, you wouldn’t have anyplace for your trains to “stretch out” so to speak.
The layout dimensions are c. 4 6x6 ‘corners’ and a c. 6x 6 ‘center’.
The Curve Radii on that layout are 30" outside curves and 28" inside curves… the S -curves areas are each seperated by a min 1’ piece of track.
Coyote
chuckles Now even -I- balk at that [;)] but that would be an intresting project to get the lazy susan motor to run on DCC so that it would move ‘in sync’ with the train to produce the illusion you mentioned… Ouch!![ D)] Now my head hurts too!
Coyote
[:D] that’s almost as good as it being “special” [;)] hehehe
It has c. 24" all the way around it, 36" isles on the left and right and 48" isles on the top and bottom… Im not too terrible skinny anymore but I could move in those areas…
mind you it is pretty weird eh? [;)]
Coyote
nods working on an around the wall sort of layout as well in fact the loops on the clover are from one ‘end’ of that… I just grabbed it and looking at it said hey… I wonder and so I presented the above mentioned madness [:D]
each ‘square’ would be c. 6’x6’ so that would give an across reach of 36"… 30" being an ok reach for me… would indeed leave 6" per side or a square foot in the middle of each lopp that would be difficult to reach without step ladder… but that space could be scenic’d I suppose… I had also in my maddness thought of running backdrop boards between the tarcks and through the middle of the loops ‘dividing’ them… that would handle that unreach able square foot and create a between 8 to 12 scenes…
Coyote
LOL ahhhh my ticket to fame, fortune… wine, roses etc… who’d a thunk it all these years…
[:D] the multi level idea is intresting… adding to the madness… weeee…
strokes chin hmmm I suppose it would be one way to get a layout into Model Railroad Magazine… snickers
Peace.
Coyote
Good point… mind you considering my consist is somewhere around… 14’ to 15’ long it wont ever be strtched out for more than a flash… but… good point nods