New track plan # 2

[steinjr]

Stein Jr, I like your ideas but it looks like I would have to crawl under if there was problems behind the backdrop.

Not necessarily. I suggested "behind a low backdrop.

One could first have a normal height backdrop mounted on the wall, then staging tracks, then low backdrop (consisting e.g. of removable buildings which has a front and a top, but not sides or a back, in effect creating a "tunnel" or a "trench" for the staging tracks) , then regular part of layout.

Staging tracks and trains on staging tracks could be accessed by either using a step to get a little higher so you can reach over the low backdrop, or by lifting out the low backdrop (in sections) or access hatches in the low backdrop. A low backdrop can be fastened to a light framework (or to the real backdrop) with magnets glued to the back of the low backdrop and to the front of whatever it is mounted on.

By all means - not necessarily the best solution - but it is one (of many) possible solution(s).

Smile
Stein