Multi-Floor layout?
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I've not been able to find anything searching here or Google.I think one of the clubs in the Kitchener area has a barn full of track that goes on several floors.
Ah, awesome, so there's at least rumor that such a design is in operation. But there's shockingly limited information about either group on the web. Do either of you happen to know how they got between floors? Huge helix would seem to be the most logical. Or simply don't have them connect at all and use cartridges.
The HO layout at the San Diego Model Railroad museum does. It's quite impressive and I believe they do it without a helix. I'd post you a link but my search engine is not working at the moment. They just opened the second floor for guests recently.
TrainNut said:The HO layout at the San Diego Model Railroad museum does. It's quite impressive and I believe they do it without a helix. I'd post you a link but my search engine is not working at the moment. They just opened the second floor for guests recently.
It is the La Mesa club modeling Tehachapie, and they don't use a helix except the Tehachapie Loop which of couse is a prototype version of a helix.
Russ Bellinis said:It is the La Mesa club modeling Tehachapie, and they don't use a helix except the Tehachapie Loop which of couse is a prototype version of a helix.
<sarcasm>You'd think for a club in San Diego they could build a decent sized yard</sarcasm>
http://www.sdmodelrailroadm.com/ProgressonTehachapiloop/photos/photo20.html
Thanks for the info guys!
Very roughly... a 30" radius requires about 100" of track per loop. If you go up 4" per loop (4% grade - which is quite steep) you need 3 loops per foot. If you assume that you have to go up 9 feet - that's 27 loops or 2700" of track. That's 225 feet of track or 3 3/4 scale miles inside the helix... No wonder you do not see many like that...!
Andrew
Andrew
60103 said:I think one of the clubs in the Kitchener area has a barn full of track that goes on several floors.
That would be the Waterloo Region Model Railroad Club. http://www.wrmrc.ca/ Good one to visit, hope they get more scenery done soon.
WRMRC Website said:Incidentally, cars rolling down a helix result in speeds of up to mach-2 when they finally empty out onto the lower approaches.
Ha ha ha, yeup.
Thanks for the link! They don't really have good pictures or descriptions, but they do talk about it being multi-floored and having huge helicies.