Where can I find layout plans using ez track. I have a 12 foot long space but only 4 foot wide.
Just start laying track, EZ track will guide you for the most part, and if you don’t like it, or it won’t work, easy enough to tear up and start over. Just my uneducated .02.
Thank you for the two…been there and done that …lol[(-D]
A few weeks ago ,can not remeber who…had some great ez track links and great track plans …it may have been from the Bachman web site …(HO or N ?)
You could have a nice layout with N scale …
I do not have my plan on digits …But I run a 4x9 four bridges EZ track layout with 4 turnouts and A double loop…
Pat
Standard reply for your query:
Don’t look for a website with “layout plans for space that is x by y feet”.
Start by thinking through this:
- What is your vision ? When you close your eyes and try to imagine your railroad done, what would you like to see ?
Olden times with small steam engines and short trains ? Big steam engines ? Mix of steam and diesel ? Modern diesels ? Electric trains ? Trams or traction ?
Urban backyards ? Rural ? Mountains ? Flatlands ? Coastal ?
Eastern ? Western ? Non-US ?
Passenger focus ? Freight focus ? Switching cars within a big industry (e.g. a Steel Mill or a Harbor) ? Servicing steam engines in a engine terminal - dumping ash, coaling, watering, washing engine, turntable, ready track, roundhouse ?
How do you picture yourself with the finished layout - rail fan watching trains pass by through the landscape ? Dispatcher setting up meets between multiple trains, trying to keep a timetable ? Engineer or conductor planning how to pick up one car and leave two cars at an industry dock ? Yard master deciding how to break up a train to form the cars into two new trains ?
Continuous run (where trains go round and round and you just sit back to watch) or point-to-point w/staging (where you have to run the trains all the time, but where you also can create a lot more realistic traffic for the middle of the layout ?
Lots and lots of tracks, as much as you can squeeze in ? Or more scenery, less tracks ?
And so on and so forth. First develop your vision. Then you know what is the most important factors to you. And don’t take the lazy route and say “I want it all”. Decide what is the most important factors to you - the stuff you are not willing to trade away at all - if
Well writen …great advice ,
My layout area is 10’ x 7’ 8", a bit larger than your space but shows what can be done with EZ-Track. It’s HO and nickel-silver track and the curves are all 18" radius. The turnouts are #4’s and #5’s as indicated. You may be able to adapt part of it to your space. This is the track plan.
http://www.thortrains.net/trackplan/HOEZ1.html
http://www.thortrains.net/marx/funlayez2.html
Funny - I used a couple of these for 2 or 3 weeks then decided on switching over to flex track. I had too many problems with the EZ Track switches and crossings. I now set up EZ track layouts for the kids and their friends to step on…I mean play with.