SCARM STANDARD GAUGE LAYOUT

Hi Pete,

There is an interesting plan in this thread that you may be able to incorporate a turntable. A modified 1933 Lionel track plan by Dr. Martin A. Folb.

Check out at May19, 2015.

here is the plan which you could reduce in size by using 42 radius

OK, here it is...it needs 10' x 13'. I think you could work the TT into it.

Edit: I had to use 4-7" to make a 45° #20x cross-over.

I really enjoy playing with this program! I think I have a pretty reasonable plan now. I've added one more switch (which I'll need to buy) and quite a bit of track. Some of my current track is cleaned up original Lionel which I'll replace with USA Tracks new products. As somewhat of an aside here when I first starting building my basement setup I bought a lot of MTH curves, every one of them had shorts on the center rail from cut insulators. When I emailed and called MTH about this I got ignored so they won't be getting more of my money.  As for the future the latest plan below should work for me until I can get to build a real permanent layout.

If anyone has any suggestions for improvements please let me know.

Pete,

On your latest design I noticed it has 7 switches.... not 6. But they are easy to come by.

One thing I saw right off the bat was on your inner turntable loop, and the fact that you can easily make a reverse loop out of it. With just one more switch, continue the straight-thru track around to the inner most loop. This way you can reverse the direction of any train on the layout. You may need to do a little fudging with the track to make it work.

I have included a picture of the change. It is not SWARM, but done in RR-Track.

ARNO

But, you need two reverses. In SWARM or RR-Crash.

I have a non-sg person question.

Is it not better to avoid switches in Std. Gauge layouts?

or are Ross the answer? #4's and 072

Good point... I should say, you can reverse any train ONCE!!

Ross SG switches are the answer.

ARNO