A few months ago, there was a forum topic inquiring about the corners of layouts. When building my free-lanced model railroads, I thought the corners presented an opportunity in which to create scenes and, since the layouts were nearing completion, I spent extra time on the structures and scenery in those places.
First four photographs show the corners of my 12’-by-8’ layout with O-72 curves (completed in 2004). Last four photographs show the corners of my 10’-by-5’ layout with O-54 curves (completed 2019). Both were the subject of articles in OGR magazine (Runs 214 and 304) and the smaller layout was on the cover. The corner edges of the table were deliberately included in each photo.
The larger the curve radius in a corner, the more area in which to build a scene.
MELGAR
