AF Christmas 2015 Twice Around the Tree Fastrack Plan

What would the footprint be for this layout, Mark?

It includes the flyer crossover track that the flyer wheels sets won't go through.  I found it interesting that a reported hold up with the PE set is that the passenger car wheels were all out of gauge. The picture in the Christmas catalog of that twice around layout has ONLY the PE Berk and no cars on the track.

Ben

The size appears slightly less than 70"x90". One would want to mock this up to test the clearance of the two tracks at the top of the diagram. Operating two trains on this layout may result in the engine cab overhang on the inner loop interfering with a train on the outer part of the loop. It may need a half straight on each side to get more clearance at the top for two train operation. With one train it looks great, but it does require a good size footprint. In our home I would add a second independent loop around the outside to prevent the "children" from arguing over whose turn it is to run the train. That would make the size just under 80"x100".

For what it is worth, it is the (unreliable) 90deg crossing that drives the size of this layout. A twice around the tree layout w/o a grade can be made much more compactly using American Models track with their 30deg crossing.

SCARM software. Not the best layout design gap issue with std. length track.

So then something like 6 x 9 feet?    Thats a pretty big area.