Then the turntable at Cherokee is very very short. I like the wye best of all, very branch-liney. I’m studying these planes very closely for ideas for a somewhat smaller space. I also like the abundant open spaces, exactly the country railroad feel I want for myself. With the crisis I’ve had to leave my home in a hot spot and evacuate to MS which is much less densely populated. I have a roughly 10x14 area under a raised house available for a layout. I was fooling around with it before but always unhappy with the operating scheme. These plans come close conceptually to what I want and will provide some needed ideas.
Hey Patrick, Thanks for the note. I hope that you find some components for your own design. I agree the turntable is pretty short. I grabbed an example from the AnyRail database that was just long enough to turn the 10-wheeler that I have from Bachmann. I think you would want a few more inches of width on that section if you were running larger locomotives, and maybe broaden a few of the curves. I think I sent the minimum radius to 24-inches. This plan does intersect the Crawford and Cherokee (my layout) at the Cherokee diamond. You might consider some of the elements here as well.
Correct. Model Railroad Planning 2008 includes the article “Fit a Branch Line in a Bedroom” by Paul Dolkos. One challenge with the around and under staging approach is clearance between decks and considerations over the grade-tolerable doe shorter branch line traffic. Incidentally he gives a shout-out to our fair site and to Mark Davidson and Rick McClellan.
