I am just considering building an N scale RR and was wondering where, if any, on line can I get some ideas for a track plan. I think I will start with a 3’ X 7’ board. Thanks Mike
Try going to www.atlasrr.com and click on “layouts”. Another interesting site is www.thortrains.net Ken
Boy, this ole’ world is really getting turned upside down; several stalwart HO-Scalers asking exploratory questions about the merits of N-Scale!!! Things are looking up!!!
Mike;
I do not mean for my response to be cynical or derisive but define for me the term, "N-Scale track plan’. I ask for this reason: when I bolted HO for N in the early '80s my first layout was based very closely on the HO Railroad That Grows. Linn Westcott’s original design was a 4X8 configuration; I left the width alone - although I could probably have (and subsequently came to wish that I had done so) extended it to 4½ feet. My room allowed me an equvalent (HO) length of 17 feet, more than twice the original length although it was only, actually, 112 inches in length - an equivalent HO length of 60 inches. The as-built HO-Scale layout had called for 18 and 22 inch radius curves; I cut them down to 14 and 17 inch radius curves. My adjustments(?) to the original track plan allowed me to increase the track/scenery ratio and to almost - maybe even more than - double the number of industrial facilities. One of my major modifications was double tracking the whole kit-and-caboodle giving me multi-train operating potential.
Gertrude Stein said that “A Rose is a Rose is a Rose!” Well, in my humble opinion, “A Trackplan is a Trackplan is a Trackplan!” I have, as I am sure you have, encountered trackplans which draw me back again and again for a variety of reasons. When I encounter a trackplan that suits my fancy the first thing I do is grab my hot-smoking calculator and start doing
I just did a 3 x 7 layout for myself in the layout section. It looks like this:
It is half railfan half switching action. 15" curves minimum.