![]() ![]() ![]() It provides 5 amps of power to the whole layout. This HO scale layout is powered by my NCE SB5 booster. I plan to have a coal plant on the right side of the upper level which will have many siding for switching coal loads. There will only be one mainline that runs around the top. So far I only have track laid on half of it but so far I am liking how its turning out. The upper level is all industrial with many sidings and passing tracks allowing for lots of switching operations. The second level of the layout is the same Atlas code 100 track soon to be painted with the airbrush. All the tack is Atlas code 100 that has been painted brown with my airbrush. It is a smaller yard with 3 pull through sidings and 2 stub tracks leading into a locomotive shed. In the back of the layout is my switching yard. ![]() Each mainline is roughly 70 feet of track which allows for nice long trains. There are two levels, the bottom level has two mainlines that run parallel all the way around. I am attempting to model Union Pacific but I mostly run whatever locomotives I own. and just more or less freehand the in-between tracks - or just line up with a straight edge.I thought I would take some time to hop on here and show some pictures of my model railroad. Again I would just locate critical areas, a yard ladder, or a curve that just clears an obstacle, etc. All you need is an architect's scale, to measure the sceld down print and translate to actual inches and fractions to mark the same line on the full size version of the same grid, drawn out on your benchwork. That's all i need to know.Īnother way you can do this is print to an easy to measure scale, and then lay it out on the benchwork. Will my chosen curve radii, and turnout ladders, etc, fitr in the space I want them to fit in? Perfect. I treat my CAD track plan as more of a proof of concept than an absolutel blueprint. Last layout, I printed a very small bit full scale - a critical collection or turnouts that then guided the placement of everything else. ANd I will NEVER waste the money, paper, or ink to do it again. That said, I did it once, for an 8x12 donut layout. I use 3rd Plan It, and it allows me to skip blank pages when printing to full size - so i don t get dozens of blank pages where the aisles are, etc. ![]()
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