My new track plan (with better picture)

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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Click this link to see a large picture of my track plan. Sorry about that.

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I like your plan. The only suggestion I have is to add a connection from the inner loop to the outer loop. The way you have it drawn, a train traveling east (counter-clockwise) on the outer loop can enter the inner loop but can’t exit without backing out! I was thinking a connection between Block 1 and Block D utilizing Spur D would get your train from the inner loop back to the outer loop.

Spur B could also be expanded with a few additional spur tracks for more operating interest.

Hope this helps.

Darrell, quiet…for now

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Maybe in the future. Right now I have a very limited income, and I’m strapped now.

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You’ve got some pretty nasty “S” curves with those turnouts off the corners. You might want to look at those again as they will cause constant headaches.

Let me pass along a web site that helped me a bunch when it came to designing trackplans. It’s; http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/~smithbf/BFSpages/LDSIGprimer/TOC.html

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Nasty s-curves already tried and tested with my pickiest locomotive and rolling stock. All problems have been eliminated and/or compensated for. They all took a consist of locos consisting of 2 PA2’s, an SD40-2, and an extremely picky P2K PA1 pulling a consist of thirty of the derialingest pieces of rolling stock I’ve got. All went beautifully. Not a single problem (that is, after all the bugs were worked out). We love our track problems, don’t we. Can’t live with 'em, Can’t learn without 'em. The plan doesn’t show it, but there’s a short section of straight track in the middle of the of the s-curves. This allows the cars to sway a little bit so they don’t get jerked off the track.

Thanks for the eyeball. This is why I posted the plan. There always something you can’t see that somebody else will.

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Where did that quote come from? I disagree with it totally. I have made and enjoyed many layouts without “yards”.

Yes, I agree with the statement. Even if you can’t put them in now they could be planned for. Those corners of the boards are great places to stick an industry.

This one crossover would solve a similar problem for clockwise operation. That would also let Block 1 double as a passing track for the outside should you wi***o operate as a single main fashion.

Block A and B need to be broken down into two smaller blocks each.

Why are spur A and B their own block?

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I might want to park a locomotive there. It would be nice to have it stay put.