Good design. If you are looking for ideas for improvements:
- You could look for places where you can substitute a wider-diameter turnout (unless you have already purchased those)
- The passing siding at the top of the plan will be useful and fun. You could consider a revision substituting O-60 turnouts for the O-48 in order to minimize the space between the two mainlines. An O-60 is 22.5 degrees, while an O-48 is 30 degrees, so you would use a 7.5 degree O-48 section before the O-60 turnout to make the curvature match. You would need to make other adjustments in length.
- Your plan works nicely without a lot of annoying "fitter" tracks, so the above two suggestions might increase the overall number of track sections (and cost). So you would be OK to reject the ideas on that basis
. - I noticed one opportunity at the bottom of the plan to replace three 10" sections with one 30" section.
--Ken
