several of you helped with designing my last trackplan. However, when I go toput the costs together I come up woth a rather massive *22* turnouts... far more than I can afford right now, so while still working on the benchwork, I cruised some websites, amd chopped a couple dogbone ideas into this single track design. it could be a logging or ore mining line, or a short line somewhere in the appalachians or Ozarks:
the numbers are the appropriate atlas Riser from their Pier sets, or terrain or equivelent size. 1 pier set can handle the rise from 0 to the first bridge pair, then more piers hold up the second bridges, while the space in between is filled with terrain at 1 11/16 inches -- the same height as the '12' -- or possibly 2 inches, which is 10/16 of an inch higher than the highest pier, with a double tunnel on the right made by stacking foam.
The track for this is much cheaper: around $102 compared to $365!
this can be cut further by the fact that really only 2 turnouts are needed for the upper right interchange and the logging or mining spur on the hill in the middle left, the other spurs (and a yard area) could be added later.as could a passing siding on the upper hill
the numbers are the appropriate atlas Riser from their Pier sets, or terrain or equivelent size. 1 pier set can handle the rise from 0 to the first bridge pair, then more piers hold up the second bridges, while the space in between is filled with terrain at 1 11/16 inches -- the same height as the '12' -- or possibly 2 inches, which is 10/16 of an inch higher than the highest pier, with a double tunnel on the right made by stacking foam.
The track for this is much cheaper: around $102 compared to $365!
this can be cut further by the fact that really only 2 turnouts are needed for the upper right interchange and the logging or mining spur on the hill in the middle left, the other spurs (and a yard area) could be added later.as could a passing siding on the upper hill