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Hello everyone, anyone interested in drawing up a layout plan for me?  The room is 12 x 22.  I would like to incorporate a passenger terminal area, turntable and roundhouse, and multiple levels all interconnected.  072 minimum curves.  Would appreciate anyones input and thoughts.

Thanks, Buddy

 

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Buddy,

Just a tip to maybe try and get some of the forum designers to help you out:

First, what type of trains and equipment do you plan on running - conventional, Legacy or MTH command control, Atlas track, Fastrack, etc.

Second, what kind of layout are you replicating - rural, desert, small town, city, etc. - are you modeling a specific railroad, etc. ?

Third, can you draw out at least a simple sketch of what you are thinking the layout would look like and attach it ?

You might want to also search some of the designers - Ken O-Scale, Double Daz, Moonman, etc. on this forum and look at some of their prior work and if it it's close to what you are looking for.

The only advice I could venture to offer you would be for you to consider how much space can be consumed by a turntable and roundhouse; also, if you are going to have a yard facility from which the engines would draw freight or passenger consists, that adds a big amount (in my opinion) of switches and lines of track, additionally.

I don't have the impression in my mind that 12'x12' of plywood acreage would afford you space for much more beyond that.

Of course, if that kind of operation is what you have been dreaming about, you will make the whole thing work. Imagination can do a lot.

FrankM

P.S. This acreage started out as such a facility,photosub_edited-1 complete with turntable, roundhouse, and attending RR-yard. Fortunately, I had saved the round cut-out from its center, which was where the turntable went, and plugged it back in for construction of the neighborhood. photosuburbleftMy wife and I and our guests enjoy this area as it is in this final iteration.

Have fun.

FrankM, Moon Township, USA

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