I think I found a protoype to use for my layout

[corsair7]

A few ideas (probably not original) to get up to next deck:

1. use the car ferry. Put a dock on each deck, one above the other, and manually lift the boat. (If you are a mechanical genius, build a crane or other gadget to lift the boat.) Put a big, deep box full of styrofoam peanuts on the floor under the docks, just in case.

2. NYC has a lot of tall buildings. Hide a sloped track behind the backdrop.

3. Helix. Both ends have a tunnel portal on them. The ends do not have to be the same tunnel if you don’t want to.

3b) Helix with scenery, plus a peek-a-boo slot somewhere so you can see just a snippet of the train. Worked in correctly with the scenery-ed outside, it can look like a train moving on an elevated track somewhere in the distance.

Good ideas.

I intend to use car ferries to bring stuff onto the layout.

Since I live in NYC, I know what lies across the river from Brooklyn and Queens.

If I use a helix, I’ll use tunnel portals on both ends. I’ll make sure one cans ee where the trains inside are.

Irv