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I thought I'd ask this here, because the modular guys would know the best how to answer me. I'm warming up to build a 6X10 home layout, with the intent of it being lightweight and mostly portable. I don't intend to take it anywhere like a show or modular meet, but I do want to be able to take...

Got moved, so I have a layout room now. One of the church kids who helped is a modelere and railfan, so I'm trying buddy up with him.

Nobody has answered this question: Logging lines would not superelevate the curves. Superelevation is a costly feature to construct and maintain, and with the temporary (and low speed) lines the loggers used, they wouldn't care. Superelevation is found on high speed (< 25 MPH or so) track...

I also use Right Track. The good part is that the software is pretty realistic regarding how much space the track and geometry will take on the layout; the bad is that you're locked into using Atlas sectional and flex track, although you can sort of make up your own curved turnouts.

Continuing to pack up the place for our move next weekend. Once we're settled, I'll start benchwork on a switching layout.

After looking at what Railman wrote, I have to agree with him. Any traffic coming through that proposed curved switch, then taking the x-over is going to have to deal with a nasty S curve. Are you stuck with that Shinohara double crossover? If you aren't, consider replacing it with 4 Atlas #6s...

I'll second the handlaid curved turnout. Regarding the rail alignment issue, do you have some kind of stops built in to the benchwork to keep the liftout from sliding sideways? If not, put some in. Then cut back the flextrack to about 6 inches (doesn't have to be exact) from the seam. Drive in...

Maybe we're using different definitions of 'turn'. Mine is that the engine is in the lead on the road moves, and with diesels that can be accomplished with a runaround. Steam, too, if you're set up for tender-first moves (backup lights, etc). What I'm getting from your posts is I need some way...

I did a couple of years with the Little River Railroad when it ran out of Pleasant Lake, Indiana (early '80s). We normally returned tender first, and that's what I want to emulate with the model. I do not know if the have turning facilities now that they run in southern Michigan.

Tile, why do you insist on the ability to turn around a train? Remember, I'm working on a short line in the diesel era, and the concept is operating point to point with no bridge traffic (also why I stage 0-5-0 at the interchange). I have 1 steamer for a tourist train, of which there are many...

Home grown computer program that generated switch and staging lists. In my jaundiced view of the world, the switch list is my set of waybills. I'm willing to share my program, but be forewarned that it's not yet a Windoze application.

I'll try the Yahoo groups tonight. I've corresponded with AS before, and Dave Barrow would be fun... Tile, FWIW, all of the benchwork shown is 24" wide. I have short arms and a lateral displacement problem (AKA beergut), so I'm painfully aware of reach limits. All turnouts are within reach...

You can get CO2 bottles for paintball use for $20 or so. They'd hold have plenty of capacity for a 5 sec shot every minute or so. Might also be able to convert a fire extinguisher, too. I have no idea about hoses and nozzles, though.

Another consideration is fire codes. You cannot permanently occlude a window in a room where the primary purpose is sleeping. Most get by this with liftouts, but if the window is a double sash and the upper sash is permanently fixed in place, then a shelf permanently blocking the upper shelf is...

You didn't mention scale (edit-yes you did; Doh!). This is important in the respect that there's commercially available components to run G scale suspended from the ceiling. I haven't researched any of them (just seen then in action), but it may be possible to adapt to smaller scales. Regarding...

Another doodle. If you detect the influences of Dave Barrow, you're right. This is a CM&SF variant in the 2K4 MRP, squashed from 12X12 to 10X10, and with a continuous run connection added. Same theme as before... I like this one better than the OP. I knocked it out in about 45 minutes (2 hours...

It's happened already. I had a virgin highnosed Atlas GP38 painted for Southern running on a friend's layout, with a new guy at the throttle. It took a 4' swandive to the concrete floor, and he was sober, too. I've got it mostly fixed now, except for replacing one driver with a bent axle. IRL...

I can't answer for the rest of the rulebook, but when I have a layout big enough for more than one operator, this is my Rule G: "The use of intoxicating and mind-altering substances when operating this railroad is strictly prohibited. This rule may be waived if you bring enough for everyone.":D

The peninsula is a grain elevator (:thumb: Tileguy for guessing correctly), and the box in the upper right is an auto parts plant. Between the two, that's the bulk of the shortline's business. Other planned businesses are: publishing warehouse for bulk paper; plastic pellets for the automotive...

Tileguy, where you have the second wye penciled in on the lower left, the stub end track with the two rerailers shown is a drop-leaf interchange, and the curve immediately above is a liftout continuous run. My concept is to 0-5-0 interchange cars onto/off the layout. I don't think I have the...