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PRR1950- you do have a point with the back right corner. Before I had posted it, I knew I was going to get roasted for that.  That far back corner was probably going to be a tunnel that started at about 2' from the back wall. So yeah...

There was going to be a tunnel with cutouts on the left side where the blue overlaps the 2 bottom rails, so mountain and scenery will support that track. I know it's a little hard to imagine.

The layout is primarily for the enjoyment for myself and my young sons, so I can enjoy my vintage stuff, and they get to play too.   As for the inner loop, I'm not sure how to include a second reversing section without it just all being track, so I was trying to leave some room for scenery and the like. So yes, it'd be a long turn around for the middle. And as for the outside pair, there was never an intent to have those have to change direction, though it'd be nice to include, but I don't see any conceivable way of doing it without a further mess of track.

I do appreciate the comments- they seem to be on par with what I was already expecting to be a challenge. I am somewhat interested in taking a look at what at an "around the walls" layout would look like. If you're only thinking 24-30" deep at the walls, I'm assuming to do the reversing loops, you'd obviously need to come out farther at those areas.  Do you think I could get 2 main lines to go around with double loops?

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