What do you do with the corners of your layout??...pictures!

My corner treatment was to create a "failed" tunnel so RR management had to revert to the old road curving away from the more direct, but now out-of-service tunnel route.  I will finish it some more, but this is a temporary layout that will be itself abandoned in 6 months (we are moving one last time).

Laidoffsick posted:

THAT is exactly how I want my rock faces to come out; color, texture, steepness. Can you direct me to how you did that in terms of a resource or share your technique? Excellent use of a corner by the way.

The O-72 outer loop on my 12-by-8 model railroad, completed in 2004, leaves relatively large areas at the corners that I filled with scenery and structures.

MELGAR

I'm almost sure that stack on the powerhouse in Roger Wasson's corner coal operation is the exhaust for "Hemi" prime movers.

Great layouts!

Here are two of mine:

Corners of my world.... top photo NW corner lower level.  Second photo SW corner upper level with building against corner and mirror to extend view of street. Third photo - northwest corner of east upper leve. Fourth photo - southwest corner of east upper level with southwest portal exiting Mt. Randolph. 

Tom

Still being  in the benchwork  phase this question is a point of reflection.   Some of my corners are not really corners as such.  Many "corners"  are just curved benchwork with an emergency access.  In one corner of a staging area I was able to install  an additional branch line turntable over top of a triangular access pop up:

I do have quite a few outside "corners" but they are all curved;

Below is a bottom view of the benchwork which facilitates the curves:

Here is one of two corner fillers yet to be added:

Below is the other end of my mountain loop.  You can detect the right angle corner where in it will sit.  Each loop gets a round pop up port hole.  The mountain loops are being fully wired and blocked for automatic running  of four trains prior to setting in place.  They are all elevated over the main RR.

Other corners on my RR are  soft curves with removable bridges for access to plumbing and a Rennai tankless water heater.

Melgar, Tom Densel, nice corner work.

Tom Tee,  Are you a guitar maker?  That's what your curves and under side of your layout remind me of.

Joe, well actually I started wood working with building  a variety of inboard and outboard racing hydroplanes, then wood ribs in a Piper J-3 wing, then  got into finish carpentry and hardwood flooring. 

I only ever got to read up on guitar making but knew the only thing I would be able do with a guitar is smash in over a certain relative's head.  That lead me into working with 2mm bendable plywood which could be built in such a way the blow could be enlightening but not fatal.

My side frame rails were built up to 3/4" thickness which is the standard stick built consensus.  

Below is what you can do to a normal right angle squared off corner.  The yard was originally a dead end affair but there was a desire to convert it to a run through arrangement which called for a 90 degree curve across an aisle.  I felt we needed a 45 degree fascia to facilitate a lift out.  So there needed to be a fudging of the existing benchwork.

This is the "after" of a  right angle corner:

If you do not want to fabricate your curved corners you can take your 3/4" plywood and steam it for an hour or so.  We use a one gallon paint can to form tight corners:

Anymore my time is tied up in another venture.

In a small space you have to get creative.