CSX Al, Thanks for the comment. A turntable no, but I have a transfer table I purchased 4 years ago that I am planning on using. As for a track plan, I have one that I am still cleaning up. When I created it I forgot to build in the grades. I knew in my head what I wanted. I realized when I was done that it looked very messy. I know what is what but no one else will. The layout as a whole is 25 x 14 with access from 3 sides plus down the middle. The look of it is somewhat like another layout that I saw on the forum. I believe that layout was called South Fork. I was struggling with putting together a nice layout when I saw what that gentleman had done. Our dimensions were the about the same, we had some of the same accessories plus his track plan looked real nice. He basically had very close to what I was looking for. I tried contacting him a few times but never heard anything back. So I have borrowed some of the look for the mainline and the yard.
One thing that I have added which is different is a slot car track for a little race action. It was something my son and like to do but in order to have a slot car table I would have had to make the train layout much smaller. So I incorporated what is basically an oval slot car track into the train layout. The train layout will actually be built on top of the slot car track. Once scenery is done it should actually look like a grand prix race. I hope to eventually get the layout plan loaded on here.
thanks
Paul
