My Experience Upgrading my layout to O54 with Gargraves and Ross track

Hi Art,

I enjoyed your video.  Seeing the layout diagram, might I suggest adding an left hand  054 switch at the point where the two  tracks come so close together on the new loop, You then can run straight through as you have it now and also reverse direction on the loop.  Think of all the switching and running scenarios this will add.

Earl

Part 2 of my Layout expansion - I rebuilt the front side of the layout, adding about a foot and put down the new track.  Of course I ran into issues with the switches

@Conductor Earl posted:

Hi Art,

I enjoyed your video.  Seeing the layout diagram, might I suggest adding an left hand  054 switch at the point where the two  tracks come so close together on the new loop, You then can run straight through as you have it now and also reverse direction on the loop.  Think of all the switching and running scenarios this will add.

Earl

Thanks for the feedback, I played around on Scarm for a while to see if I could get your idea to work but I wasn't able to.  Not sure if I mis-understood, but the way I changed the layout with the switch allowed for one direction change but I couldn't reverse back.  I am also trying to make that section where the two track come close together be a lift out so I can get into the corner closet so I'm concerned about putting switches on that section.

I included my scarm drawing if you have any ideas.

Episode 3 of my layout O54 expansion, I go through some of the issues I had to work through and show how I finished the main loop!