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Pictures would be nice to see what your layout looks like. !@

Ya i was just posting a basic idea of what im looking at. It will be 2 levels both the same area on each level. Im going to try and model Olean NY and a town in Penn which was the start of the grade up to NY. I didnt add any sidings or anything since im still trying to find out what the...

I just do it free hand with ruler and compass. By the way those are number 5 turnouts and 24"R min curves. I reall think a yard on the upper level would look sweet in this plan. Again just gonna wait and see what boss says about point to point with the 2 level area at the bottom. Im a huge...

Let me know if you like this.....I made it so it is a loop. However if you would like....Where the mainlines cross you could build a 2 level area with 2 end points with yards at either end and maybe some staging in that little 4x1 area. Let me know which you would like to see.

Im gonna scratch a plan up now....I will only make the mainline and a yard....you can add the sidings where you want them. Im going to try for 28"r and see what i can come up with.!

Post a picture of what you got

Ok thanks mang this is the kinda help i need. I guess Im going to do the Allegheny Division from Buffalo to Harrisburg with a Interchange in Olean with the Youngstown Div. Do you have any clue if helper locos were needed here?

I posted the bare bones of what Im planning to see what others could come up with. As for modeling Im going to do whats really there in real life. So read next post.

34 views and no response....hmmmmm am i getting the feeling nobody wants to give a hand? Or do nobody like conrail.? Wake up guys

Also what radius curves are we looking at here boss. Ill grab my paper and scratch some benchwork for ya. You can make a really nice layout with some nice runs between citys.

Are the blue lines Windows.? Also do you have the full area or just that small bottom section where u just put that layout in?

oh and i let me check the %grade youll have with that run up you had thought bout.

Ok that opens up all new things....either you modeling nothing but 50' boxcars or your layout is set back in the 40's and 50's. With 22" R for your curves I assume your gonna use snap track? A helix with a 22R curve is gonna be tiny and will leave you alot of room to add more sidings which i...

Ok guys im planning this layout now and have just wanted to see what ideas I could get with all your minds put togather. Its going to be a line from mid Penn ST up to Olean NY in which im told needed helper units to pull the grade. This will work out great since from the lower level to the top...

Ok i have had a few drinks and came home and put this togather. 2 level layout R30" min curves 1 Helix which if your going to run smaller stuff you can make however large you like or If your going to N scale then even smaller. I even added a island which you could have a interchange with...

Is this HO scale or N scale?

rgr that cant wait too see

I hear ya Doc Im just trying to help push these guys to the NEXT level in layout design. Table top layouts just look like that a tabletop. When you model on a cookie cutter style layout and have a point ;) to the layout things will just flow alot better. I would rather have a U shaped layout...

Listen with the correct setup on a Point to point you should still be able to sit back and let the trains roll. U can have connected staging points off both ends of the layout and be able to run straight threw the hidden yards and come out the other side of the world. More over If you have 2...