Sort of looks like the website maker just took images randomly from online and pasted them in as examples without citing any of them. Maybe its best to just contact the owner of the site for more info on the layout?
Charles
It’s a figure 8. I see one reversing loop, possibly, or crossing track which is a reversing section.
The double track mainline in the foreground leads to a loop up top. Looks like its more of a folded dogbone than a figure 8, but there’s something else going on that I cannot follow.
The idea that its a collection of images and not a pic of a real layout is not out of the question. That upper loop has a weird straight egde along the right side.
Yeah, there are some very odd things going on. I guess it could be a composited image. The website owner wants to sell his book, so he wasn’t much help.
I would call it a double track figure eight.
Hello All,
Without the overall dimensions, it’s difficult to even guess.
To really be certain you’ll have to buy what he’s peddling.
From the photo, it appears to be similar to the Woodland Secnics Grand Valley™ HO Scale Layout.
If you are looking for track plans check out the Atlas HO Scale Layout Packages in both Code 100 and Code 83.
Yes, these plans are based on Atlas products.
They can be adapted to any track manufacturer and can provide a starting point for your own layout.
Hope this helps.
Personally, I don’t care for it, but a friend is intrigued and thinking of building something like it. He asked if I could figure it out
It’s got elevations that the Woodland Scenics layout doesn’t. I’m puzzled by the innermost loop.
I think the tunnel closest to the camera ends blindly.
I think the inner most loop, which looks pretty tight to me, comes out the lower level all the way in the back right.
OK. I’ll throw my guess at it. The “weird” flat edge on the upper loop is nothing more than the track straightening out before starting to loop back around. It looks like a folded dogbone plan to me. The upper most tunnel you can see (round portal) must expose a short section of track that disappears again under the building just to the left of it, eventually making its way to the squared portal in the middle of the screen, and that round portal is fed by the two lower outside tracks as they make their way around the far end. I would guess that the two lowest portals are not only not blind endings, but actually connect somewhere under the far end to complete the dogbone. [2c]
You mean The Tunnel To Nowhere? [(-D]
Rich
You got that right!
Those buildings are all German.
What’s there to figure out?
Your friend likes what he sees. He should just, then, recreate what he sees. Where tracks are in tunnels, he can connect them any way that pleases him.
Task done!
Ed
Hello All,
OOOHHH! Good eye!!
Further inspection also reveals that there appear to be beer steins on the bookcase in the background and the photos on the wall seem to be of European locomotives.
Seems to be a European-based layout.
The track appears to be two rail as opposed to the Märklin three rail HO. That would lead me to believe it might be a Trix layout.
At the last train show I attended the Märklin/Trix booth was giving out old editions of their magazine.
Each magazine highlighted a layout with options for both Märklin and Trix track.
I don’t know if Märklin has a track plan database but it might be worth a try to contact them.
Hope this helps.
Marklin three rail doesn’t have three rails. The center power “rail” is provided by a continuous row of metal nubs sticking up out of the center of each sleeper. The photo is too fuzzy to tell if those black nubs are there or not.
Hello All,
Ja, ich verstehe, dass die dritte “Schiene” auf der Märklin-Bahnstrecke eigentlich keine Schiene ist.
OK, so it might be a Märklin pike.
In the magazines from Märklin I got the highlighted layouts list both types of track to build the layout.
They also give time-specific details.
If it to be in the steam era roundhouses with the associated track are listed. If the era is in the post-war diesel period they give a list for switching tracks in the yard(s). For the modern electric era catenary and transfer tables are listed.
Oh, those through Germans.
Hope this helps.
What difference does it make if the layout if German, French, English, whatever, if the layout still makes no sense?
Rich
Hello All,
One of the pikes in the Märklin magazines had a track plan that, to North American sensibilities, made no sense either.
But it’s what they built, documented, and published.
That’s the Europeans for ya! [:P]
Knowing this WON’T help.
I’m not sure how anybody could accurately show a track plan, especially since everybody seems to assume that they’re seeing the whole thing.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the far end of the layout makes a left turn and continues on, unseen. If that’s not the case, then all you’re seeing is spaghetti…scribble your own assumptions for a trackplan.
Wayne