More scenery details:
Design notes: I am pretty much satisfied with this interpretation of Lionel's Showroom Layout.
- Expanding the inside layout to O48 minimum, running O42 equipment
- Adding reverse loop connections for the inside, which also creates two operating routes - the inside loop; and a figure-8.
- Expanding the outside up-and-over route to O60, running O54 equipment
- Adding a staging track, and/or connection to another RR for interchange (no double-stacks).
- Adding the On30 for a third operator, and more train action
- Additional spurs for more operating activity
Limitations:
- No yard, limited storage, but that is an aspect of the original plan as a showcase for new products
- I like a layout to have interesting operations, but also good continuous running and train watching without having to focus on throttles. The outside up-and-over runs one train. The second train is the On30 which I would set to a back-and-forth run with a pause at each end, rather than just running the On30 loop.
- The third train is the inside route (brown ties), which can run its loop on the left (boring after a bit). The problem is the intersection with the up-and-over. I am wondering if this inside route could go through the crossing or switch-intersection and all the way to the right end, by either timing so that trains will miss at the crossings, or run this route using conventional control, and making this route automatically pause/yield to the outside (gray track) route.
