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Reply to "Benchwork - Laying Track"

John, I agree if you really want the turntable and roundhouse, then the topside creeper is well worth the investment.  I would love to have a turntable and roundhouse, but in my space there wouldn't be room for much else.  

I think I needed to see the layout in actual three dimensions before I could see how to fit in the wye, two-stall engine house, and yard below.  If you go waaayyy back in my design and build topic, you can see how all were discussed in some measure during previous plans.  It all started in January 2017!  Wow, it has been that long to get this far.  I call this plan that I am building Plan D.  Plan A was scrapped on the drawing board.  I started construction on Plans B and C, then I tore them apart and repurposed everything in Plan D.  I am going to have a good bit of track and a few switches left over when the track is all done.  So the inventiveness was more like Thomas Edison finding 1000 ways that don't work before one does.  

I have been taking advantage of the warm but not hot weather trying to get some things done outside that I didn't get done in the summer or last summer before the knee replacement.  Therefore I haven't had much to report on construction.  In the evenings I did fiddle with trying to add another siding that didn't work a couple places, but I think I have found a place to fit it in.

I like the bottom plan with the two passing sidings, one on the yellow and one on the blue track.  For me, elevation changes are hard enough to just get a steady grade with verticale easements at the top and bottom so I could cross over the other track, that I don't want to think of building the slight ups and downs like in reality.  Making long straight stretches look better with some slight curves really looks great.  Then again, I have enough trouble bending flex track to suit a small connection, that I didn't attempt the slight curvatures.  Maybe you could do it on your much longer straight-aways with the largest diameter curved sections on the market.

Maybe the bascule bridge would work on the yellow track across the aisle from the yard.  It would be great if you can fit it and some kind of saltwater in considering where you grew up.

I'm hoping to get something posted on my newest siding, but so far there isn't much to photograph.  I hope someone else throws out some ideas on your plan and comments.

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