Ideas for handling horseshoe curves?

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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Thanks Eric I always enjoy looking at the Utah Belt plan. Never realized how similar the overall shape is to what I am doing until I just looked at the PDF version you provided the link for. Jamie

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YES. perfect example. Only I would maybe bring the track back in a little sooner instead of fanning it out so much.

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Hi everyone, just wanted to show what I have done at the end of one of the aisles to address this issue. If you recall, I have two levels and two aisles, so four places where I will have complete 180 degree horseshoes. While both levels on one of the aisles actually feature the horseshoe curves as part of the scenery, I thought that two more would be a bit much. So, thanks in a big way to some of the suggestions I received on this forum, I deepened the benchwork at the end of the other aisle to a full 24". This way, I can put more scenery in the foreground and deemphasize the horseshoe to the background of the scene. I think this will work out well and have a few good ideas that I need to work into the track plan.

Here are a few views of the end of the modified aisle:

Jamie