GEC's Layout Progress

[Green_Elite_Cab]

Your catenary building skills are really coming along Cab. Glad you still have some time to work on it. Takes me back to the 70's, riding around Philly, peering through those oval windows. Now I just need to convince you to swap in some #6 turnouts on that main line.

Probably gonna miss the oval windows. Except for the Silverliner IVs, all the other Silverliners are gone now. The Silverliner Vs could hardly be considered a silverliner in my personal opinion. They are so different, they just don't fit in.


I wish i could put larger turnouts in, but there is no viable way to do so. At least there are #4s in right now, as opposed to the old snap switches! Besides, no train that would need #6 turnouts would be using the turnouts on my layout anyway, since inside oval of track is 18"s, with the passing track being 20" between the inner and outer oval. The outside is 22", but that barely handles a GG1.

What would really be nice, is if when I build a new layout sometime in the distant future, is if i could make a nice big interlocking with LONG switches across 4 tracks, with enough space on either end to properly hang the catenary and pull offs. One of the problems with all these tight curves is that i'm going to have to play games to get the wires positioned properly for all these crossovers and turnouts.