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My plan is to make a table with an oval of O72 track on it.  The straight sections will be 80 inches long.  So the table top will be about 6.5 feet by 13 feet.  Because of everything else that'll be in the room this is the biggest I can do, and I can't do an around the room walls because of how many duck unders there would be.  I've toyed with so many different things to do, but I can't come up with anything that I like/feels right.  So hopefully some of you guys can come up with something.  The O72 loop is for the Lionel Big Boy and a MTH T-1.  I have one O42 locomotive and the rest are all O36 to O27 capable. I'd like to be able to run a couple of trains at once and also have spurs and sidings to do switching operations on.  I'd also like a short Main ST USA town with a few MTH buildings, one of which being the movie theater.  I want to use Atlas track.  Thanks!

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Sinclair,

The oval is a good start. I am working on something interesting that may fit in your space with the mainline being an outside oval.

 

So, if you can wait for some ideas after Christmas, I'll shoot them your way.

 

Happy Holidays, it's been good to spend time on the forum with you this year.

 

That goes out to you also, Mike.

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Carl-

 

I can wait, I still need to do work on the room before I can build the table.  When I bought the house a year and a half ago, I had big plans to fill the room.  Funny how over time, and as life happens, big ambitions get smaller and more realistic. 

 

Mike-

 

I forget that your layout is in a small room.  I always love seeing photos of it.  You've done a great job.

I have an 8x12 Fastrack layout right now, and am converting it to K Line Super Snap (RMT) 072 and 031. It's all because of noise. I like the big 072 loops to run most anything, plus all my engines the will run smaller can twist and jump around in the inner section. I'm about 1/2 done on the conversion. I could run 3 trains before with the fastrack with nothing banging, now I "should" be able to run 4 of them. "Should."

 

Three loops of 072, and a spaghetti of 031 in the middle. Everything is reachable from anywhere rail-wise, if you can do 031.

 

Just food for thought.

 

 

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Phil-

 

That is a nice layout, but Atlas doesn't do O31.  Maybe I'll try messing with it and see if I can squeeze it in with O36.

 

Carl-

 

Any updates on your ideas, or are you still recovering from the holidays?

 

 

I have kept messing around and came up with 3 things, but I'm still waiting for what Moonman had in mind.  I did some Googling of layouts and found some ideas that I then tried to convert to O from HO or N.  Most didn't work in the space I have.  Note, buildings and roads are just ideas I was working with for possible placement.

 

This one I like because it isn't flat, but only allows for 2 trains at once. And I couldn't find a place to put the MTH train station I want to use.

O72 loop 1

This one allows for 3 trains running at once, which I like, but still some decent switching.  The top middle spurs can be used as a condensed Inglenook.  It wasn't planned, but it kind of works out.  I took the World's Greatest Hobby layout and shrunk it and placed it in the double oval.  I've I take out the inner outer oval I can make the WGH loop bigger and add a small bit to the siding lengths.  But either way it's kinda flat.

O72 loop 2

This one I took an O27 layout I found and placed it in a double loop.  Also giving 3 trains at once, but the middle is very toy train like in operations, and limiting to what can run it in.  But it's the only one that allows for reversing.

O72 loop 3

 

Any more thoughts or ideas would be great, please.

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