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My attempt at designing a layout for Greenberg
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Thu, 5 Sep 2002 17:14:34 GMT
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I decided to start a new thread to detail my vision of what our next layout
could look like. (That nasty reversing loop has been successfully eliminated).
Layout
http://www.nelug.org/layout/3x6layout5.GIF
Parts
http://www.nelug.org/layout/parts5.GIF
First let me say I am supprised how much more flexibility 3 tables gives us.
Here is a list of what I think are the highlights of my design.
1. Flexibility of 1 large or 2 smaller inner loops for a total of up to 3
operational trains.
2. Significantly more siding space, and it is not all bunched up in one area
of the layout.
3. Lots more MOC space.
4. Lots more space for the Amusement Park in the "Fair Grounds".
5. The Fair Grounds include a passing siding (Switches at both ends). This
makes it easy to either have a Circus/Zoo/Amusement Park support train there or
to use it as a station for droping off and picking up passangers visiting the
Fair Grounds. Picture a passenger train with passangers getting on and off
with lots of commotion and excitement.
6. The large Main Street sections are at opposite ends of the layout in order
to help balance things.
7. Because we probably don't have enough Train cars to fill all the sidings or
enough MOC's to fill the empty spaces we have lots of flexibility. We could
add more sidings to fill space or if we have a large influx of MOC's we could
reduce the size of, or eliminate, some sidings.
8. There are a couple sidings that are easily accessable from the inside of
the layouts which makes switching out trains easier that it was in the past.
For my tastes I don't see much in the way of downsides to this layout but I can
think of a couple things that some might mention.
1. The roads don't connect. This is a model railroading thing, you need to
use more imagination about what is off the layout. Townies would probably
prefer that all the roads connect.
2. The smallest of the 3 loops is a little small but my view is that we don't
need three massive trains running all at once. This can be used for a smaller
short-line train or even for a trolly if we choose. It's still 1 more
operational loop than we have had in the past.
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: My attempt at designing a layout for Greenberg
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| Well I've been reluctant to comment, because I didn't want it to look like mud throwing, but I just feel I have to say something though. In lugnet.org.us.nelug, Eric Kingsley writes: <snip> (...) There actually might be too much space. I see the (...) (22 years ago, 10-Sep-02, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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