Sorry this was the first time I put a video in a post so I ended up with problems sorry for the inconvenience.

love the tinplate. what are your plans?

Well I actually just came up with the track I had and I tried to just put it together but I am rearranging the track to have the loops bigger but I ran out of track. 

now that just gives you an excuse to head to the train store!

Looks great

O Gauge Work In Progress Layout

Hello Mercury Marx • I watched your YT video, you are off to a great start.

Cheers from Michigan

Great start, love the tinplate. Is it my imagination or is the surface unlevel? The train seems to crawl around the far end and go gangbusters around the near end. Is that by design or is it an optical illusion? 

Yeah I have noticed that it was slow on that end so I have been trying to solve it. The house I live in is 99 years old so they couldn't make the house level. Also that room I use as A office so when I get out of my chair the chair rolls to the side of the room.

If that's an O27 oval trains do have a tendency to slow down going into the curves. That  would be compounded if the table isn't level. You may check that the track pins in that piece of track are clean and making good contact inside the rail.

That's the identical design I used for my first multi track display it's fun and easy to rearrange by elevating one of the loops. At one point I elevated the inside loop with plexiglass so I could look through it and watch the trains as they ran along the outside rail in the back. The reflection the lights cast at night was pretty cool too. illumination can really bring small displays to life without a lot of expense; passenger cars, search light cars and other lighted cars on the secondary market are an easy way to add more life and variety as you take your time to deside how you may want to expand in the future. If you find yourself limited in space horizontally start looking up, I've expanded vertically up to 7'.

Have fun with it. I know I did and it inspired me to build more and continue the creative adventure I'm on.

The slow down you are experiencing could require an additional Lock-on in the area of the slow-down.  As said before, check the pin connections at each track connection to assure they are tight.  An additional lock-on should provide adequate voltage in the area of the slow-down.

Well after Christmas the layout has definitely changed.

looking good!

I finished my possible rework of the layout.I am not sure if all of you can open the file

I can't

I am not sure how to convert it though.

I like the house and garage.  Who was the maker of those items?

If your talking bout the blue house, there is only one of those in existence, the house was made by my grandpa when he was kid in shop class.

I got the plan converted now.

To access the spur, you need to run counter-clockwise. But, then you can't access the bottom spurs.

I move the switch to the bottom or to the curve for counter-clockwise running to access both.

or you can move the top switch to the right as a left hand switch and access it counter clockwise.

Are you using 027 track?

This fits better with 027-you can back in to all spurs with CC train movement. Optional connection for pass-through. Little bit of a tweak to vary from standard oval.

That is quite  good design, but I have limited space and the sizes would not work because I have two doors in the room and both need access and the other side of side of the room has  desk that I work at and that has a even smaller space. This way I redesign has the same size it was before and it can back into both sidings going counter clockwise. It not as good looking as yours, but it still fixed that problem.

Well, that was the main issue, backing into the yard. Sorry, I didn't pay careful attention to the size. So, is it 36" x 60"?

the main platform is 36 by 68 and the yard is 16 by 40.Its quite an odd size but I have limited space and I'm trying to get the most out of it.

36" x 68" with an 18" x 30" add-on