05-11-2011, 12:53 AM
Hi
i personally would cut-back also the "old" part of the layout.
Then, try to think in th third dimension, the hight.
We have our corridor elevated, the switching szene is on the lower level.
In you case, perhaps think at the layout to D. Herrison, he crosses the track with an double oval, see http://web.mac.com/msibnsf/iWeb/Acela%20...plays.html.
Or let only two tracks as an oval elevated ( as corridor), the make ramps for the comuter trafic and switching to the lower level, there can be a passenger station.
The you can use ( when you make an "damaged" oval) this as scenic devider.
In the lower level also can be the staging tracks as you planned.
I think, so its more interresting, to have two levels. For example you may also use the NH catenary layout, also an oval, elevated, with an switching area.
Or you turn it arround, the corridos is lower and the switching and stage yard is elevated, for example see http://carendt_backup.gully.org/scrapboo...index.html (scroll down for city classics layout), her you can see, how they use the scenic deviders.
my 2 cents
i personally would cut-back also the "old" part of the layout.
Then, try to think in th third dimension, the hight.
We have our corridor elevated, the switching szene is on the lower level.
In you case, perhaps think at the layout to D. Herrison, he crosses the track with an double oval, see http://web.mac.com/msibnsf/iWeb/Acela%20...plays.html.
Or let only two tracks as an oval elevated ( as corridor), the make ramps for the comuter trafic and switching to the lower level, there can be a passenger station.
The you can use ( when you make an "damaged" oval) this as scenic devider.
In the lower level also can be the staging tracks as you planned.
I think, so its more interresting, to have two levels. For example you may also use the NH catenary layout, also an oval, elevated, with an switching area.
Or you turn it arround, the corridos is lower and the switching and stage yard is elevated, for example see http://carendt_backup.gully.org/scrapboo...index.html (scroll down for city classics layout), her you can see, how they use the scenic deviders.
my 2 cents
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Amtrak X995
Amtrak X995