Made some progress this week...
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Bob next weekend you need to post pics of trains running! No pressure or anything like that mind you! 
You have the makings of a real fine railroad there. What grade do you have there? Good luck and have fun and please keep us posted.
Ron :thumb:
Ron :thumb:
Thanks for all the feedback...
Thanks for all the feedback. Having natural light is a nice thing ... except at night
Now lets talk about the grade... it is rather steep on the far right turn and I have to figure out a way to keep my track level coming around that tight 30" curve and platform bank on the far right near the window. I'm going from 0" to about 5 1/2" inches in the far left hand corner, with my homemade trestle, and then back down to 0" in the front portion of the layout.
I wanted to show some depth and height on this layout so the grade was determined by the space available to achieve my goal. I hope I won't be sorry with this decission. I have about 408 total inches to accomplish this in. I have been told that a grade should be a maximum of 1" rise for each 100"s so I guess my grade is a bit much.
As far as having trains running next weekend... I don't think so... I am still waiting for the release of the NEW MRC Prodigy Advance to run this railroad.
Regards,
Thanks for all the feedback. Having natural light is a nice thing ... except at night
Now lets talk about the grade... it is rather steep on the far right turn and I have to figure out a way to keep my track level coming around that tight 30" curve and platform bank on the far right near the window. I'm going from 0" to about 5 1/2" inches in the far left hand corner, with my homemade trestle, and then back down to 0" in the front portion of the layout.
I wanted to show some depth and height on this layout so the grade was determined by the space available to achieve my goal. I hope I won't be sorry with this decission.
I have about 408 total inches to accomplish this in. I have been told that a grade should be a maximum of 1" rise for each 100"s so I guess my grade is a bit much.As far as having trains running next weekend...
I don't think so... I am still waiting for the release of the NEW MRC Prodigy Advance to run this railroad.Regards,
You're in good company...
http://www.trains.com/Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/003/015kegsf.asp
...just lay that track well :thumb:
http://www.trains.com/Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/003/015kegsf.asp
...just lay that track well :thumb: