Promised overview photos showing the spaghetti bowl (contrast to chosen sightline vignettes)

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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Lots more at https://nscale4by8.github.io/nscale4x8/

Overview

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I’m a life-long HO scale guy who, if I were restricted to a 4x8 layout, would probably opt to do without…

But I must admit, this is very impressive![Y][bow]

Jim

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Spaghetti Bowl is right!

It looks like a lovely layout with a lot of care taken to maximize the useful real estate, but definitely not my cup of tea. In a way though it does resemble a lot of city railroading, which is not my ideal anyways. Is it operatable or just someplace to watch the trains run?

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If you don’t bother to click on his link, you will miss the fact that he designed and 3D printed the buildings. The track plan does look like a spaghetti bowl but with the structures it all works. [Y] [Y]

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Thank you [:)]

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My challenge was to achive several goals:

  • Provide sight lines and vingnettes that match the prototype, Cleveland Flats Industrial District.
  • Enable continuous running of at least two trains while a third performs switching operation serving industries.
  • Support unattended operation for display at shows. I still hope to show this layout in the future.
  • Serve as an excuse for my growing interest in designing and printing structures incuding lift bridges.
  • Be small enough that I have a realistic chance of “completing” the project.
  • Be extensible if I ever have time for another installment.