Even if your layout is 40x50, you’re still watching trains go in circles, right? I mean, yeah, they’re bigger circles, but technically...
I guess if you built a 4x8 switching layout that would defeat their argument. It's been a cold dreary day here so I was using SCARM to try and come up with this weeks layout idea. It has been kicking my butt big time, I must have a bug in it. It won't let me layer things like for a 2 level layout, sometimes the 48x96 green rectangle I use for a template gets locked to whatever I'm moving or deleting and it goes bye bye on me and the scrolling doesn't always work. I miss my RR-Track, probably going to have to bite the bullet and get a new one. I miss not being able to put Plasticville and accessories on my plans. But I did come up with an idea for an O27 layout that might be good for a Halloween set up, lots of curves and turns that would let your train wind thru a haunted scene. It is the first time I've ever designed a layout with O gauges little brother, not as elaborate as the one I can't get to work out for me but now I have a whole week to figure out what I'm doing wrong. I might go old school and just take a box of track into the garage and try out some ideas on a sheet of OSB I have in there
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It uses 24 - O27 curves, 4 - 8.75" straights, 2 - 7.37" straights custom cut for the 2 loops, 2 - 7 3/4" custom cuts for the entrance straight away into the switches, 1 - 2" custom cut in the middle of the figure S and 2 - O27 LH switches.
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I know, the color sucks, wanted it to look like the brown ties of O27 track.
I'd also like to thank RSJB18 for welcoming new members, I have been some what remiss in my dutys in that respect! I do want to welcome everyone to the 48 Club and I hope for a long life for it like The Brotherhood of The Crappy Basement Layout has enjoyed over the years, in fact I would hazard a guess many 48ers are probably members in that group also. And Mark like RSJB18 said, your Christmas layout gets you in but your misunderstanding does raise a point, should we as a club call ourselves THE FORTY EIGHT CLUB or THE FOUR EIGHT CLUB ? A 4x8 is 32sq' not 48 but 48 is usually pronounced forty eight, and a 48sq' layout is a monster, maybe I'm over thinking this and should just play with my trains!
I also kicked around this as an idea...
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I can see a NYC J3 Dreyfuss Hudson pulling a string of these cars!
I think I missed my true calling, when I worked in retail back in the days of actual for real stores I used to get tasked with dealing with the store displays, I really liked the creativity it allowed me, that plus it got me out of real work!
Jerry