Thanks all for the positive comments on the plan. maybe it's not as bad as I thought it was.
Anyways, I stayed up till 3:00am last night working on revisions... I just finished revision 9 this morning (the plan posted last night is revision 2 by the way)
I think I really got something special here!
no color's to help with this plan.... I'm feelin kinda lazy after all that planning, minds gonna explode.
anyways, here's my latest revision!
This is the new bottom section... gonna do a double decker! :mrgreen:
So... instead of making the mainline a continuous loop I've decided to make it a point to point layout... with one heck of a main line run!
So the terminal stays as is. When a train leaves Eastbound it reaches a return loop with industry located within. I think I'll scenic this area before it gets tracked. That way I can play structures and do the siding around it.
After the train loops it head back to the station... not very realistic, but whatever... then it heads Westbound towards the helix found in the bottom center. The helix will bring the layout up 16 inches to:
which will have scenery a lot like:
http://www.trains.com/mrr/default.aspx?c=a&id=1438
The idea here is that the top section will be 90% scenic that way I won't have to really worry about switching and what not. Because of the huge mainline run I've also decided to double track it at this time of the planning stages.
What I think I'll do is I'll snake the train through the area so that I can recreate this scene in n scale:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-U81eun5OA
well thats my plan anyways.
The branch line still exists. it's just raised a bit now... and will get some small modifications as time passes.
No trains swerving over each other though. wall1