My Nephew's Idea

Alex's Squiggles Railroad?

Trix Rabbit, Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids!

Got to like a kids imagination!

If you are going to build this in O gauge don't forget to add a piece of straight track between those "S" curves.  But, it does look cool.

Rick

RICKC posted:

If you are going to build this in O gauge don't forget to add a piece of straight track between those "S" curves.  But, it does look cool.

Rick

I'm going to stick to the original as much as possible.  I may just run a trolley on it to avoid the risk of S-curves.

Alex took the boring "8" out of "Figure 8" John!

Depending on the actual equipment you end up running, I think you might be surprised by the "S" curves. I've seen a lot of smaller trains run through "S" curves on You Tube with no trouble at all. And even if you only get to run a trolley, I think it's a great idea to build it for a little different sort of fun.

So...this is harder than I expected.  I can see two different radii in his design.  I was hoping to do that in O-27 and O-36 tubular (more toy like).  I think the only tubular system that has those is Menard's...but they aren't in SCARM.  So, I tried to do it all with O-27 and this is what I got:

I might try doing this with Atlas to see what that looks like.  SCARM file of Lionel O-27 attached as well. 

DoubleDAZ posted:

Depending on the actual equipment you end up running, I think you might be surprised by the "S" curves. I've seen a lot of smaller trains run through "S" curves on You Tube with no trouble at all. And even if you only get to run a trolley, I think it's a great idea to build it for a little different sort of fun.

Yeah, I was thinking about something toy-like (semi-scale?) anyway with probably a switcher and a gondola and a caboose like he has on his...

Well...I studied the prototype a bit more and noticed that the larger radius seems to be double the small, so I tied one at O-27 and O-54 Atlas.  Not too bad.

how about the Alex Knot Run or Alex Knot Rail Trail   It looks like if you use magic to turn the track into string it would tie a knot or some sorts, hence my reason for thinking of throwing the word "knot" in there.

Consolidating the list of name ideas:

• Alex's Run
• Alex Loop
• Alex's Trail
• Alex's Squiggles Railroad
• Alex Knot Run
• Alex Knot Rail Trail
• Alex Knot Trail

Trains by Alex

Trains are Alex

Looks like a shamrock to me.  Maybe something that reflects the Emerald Isle?

Alex's Crossing

The Ribbon of Alex Railroad

The Tri-Alex Loop

Rail-A-Lex Curve

ALEXXX CROSSING

Trix Rabbit Railway

John D. posted:

So...this is harder than I expected.  I can see two different radii in his design.  I was hoping to do that in O-27 and O-36 tubular (more toy like).  I think the only tubular system that has those is Menard's...but they aren't in SCARM.  So, I tried to do it all with O-27 and this is what I got:

 

I might try doing this with Atlas to see what that looks like.  SCARM file of Lionel O-27 attached as well. 

You can use another track type of O36 and mix it with the Lionel O for fitting. use fastrack O36 or Lionel Super O from the SCARM Lionel track library.

Great Trolley  LINE !  

nephews  conundrum 

nephews knot 

Alex's Pretzel Loop!