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I believe the prototypes were between 111' and 115', so you would make it on a 90' w/o tender I would guess. I don't know anything about these, but I found them in a quick search so they may or may not be quality. http://www.cmrtrain.com/turntable.html...

I hadn't seen the MX31; it's the first one I've seen that doesn't look like a Gen 1 cell phone. I'll have to look into that, I see the owners manual for it was added for download end of Nov.

Thanks, I look forward to any input and ideas. I am trying as many of the things that are suggested as I can. I'm a Master's student, and last exam was today so I'm on vacation now and so will have more time. As you've pointed out, an E just didn't work with the curves, but I'm not willing to...

I guess the grades will make things difficult as it stands. I think I'll add 1 foot to each end so it will be 6' x 13', and then move the crossover points and the tunnel/bridge you suggested. That should also open things up enough for the drill track, getting rid of the double slip and maybe...

Thanks Fred, I'll have to check the grades, I didn't look at that too closely. 1. If I replace the #6 Double to under the line, I loose the opposite direction connection you mentioned in #3. That being a double turnout fulfills your #3. Maybe if I move the tunnel farther into the curve the...

I've been thinking about a large turntable also, but that brings up an interesting idea. What did they do with the tenders while the locomotives were in the roundhouse? I've hesitated on the 130' and Roundhouse since that combo consumes a minimum of 40" in length, while a 90' and smaller...

OK, maybe a total shift in direction, but that's the nice thing about paper, it's easily recycled. I tried several E, U and C shapes, and I just don't think they are for me. They just looked goofy, and didn't really seem to gain me much. The layout below is 6'2"x11', first things first, I am OK...

Well after that suggestion was made above, I started laying out an E, and I just don't think that is going to work for me since I do NOT want point to point. I prefer 30" R curves, so if I go with that #, plus add in some safety along the edges and for ballasting/detail, I end up with either...

This is just a rough so there are elevational differences, I just didn't add them in as well since it was already busy looking with the detail I did show. Total elevational change over the entire layout is about 16" from highest to lowest points. I'm just not a big fan of tunnels, but there...

Here's a quick layout drawn to scale of the side of the room I'll be using.

I've prepared myself for both of those (work and $) since I know that if I build a new layout without those things I'll just go back and add them in a short time later. Easier to just do it once rather than redoing it once. I figure that if I go through all of the extra work now when companies...

I had planned on just a single person in the operators pit. My room is actually much larger as it is a basement. I'm only using a portion of a larger room so coming through a doorway into that room there is 15' to the right, and 13' to the wall ahead. to the left is a walk-in closet for a...

First draft of layout - Now V 3.0 I'd like suggestions on changes/improvements to this layout. The size is 8'x12', HO scale. I used one of the base 8x8 plans in a Model Railroader layout book as a starting point. My scanner cut off the edges of the long side so the tracks are at closest 3" to...

Andrew, I won't be running them all at once, I figure with the relatively small layout size I'll have a maximum of 3 running at once, and normally probably only 2. I was planning on adding a booster since I plan to expand. As you can see in the picture below, the Marklin is much more graphic...

After years of Marklin Z layouts, I'm building a HO layout to return to my model railroading roots:) I have two possible layouts, one of which is 9x12 and one of which is 10x16. To be honest I'm not all that impressed with any of the DCC systems, as the last one I used was the new Marklin HO...

I was able to find an older post that stated that #6 is equivalent to 43" radius and #8 is equivalent to 67" radius. There was a link to NMRA.org, where the specs are supposedly stated, but that site doesn't work for me, have they changed the address?

New here, after years of Z scale layouts, I'm making the jump to a 9x12 HO layout (at least for now, trying to figure out how I can get away with taking more of the basement). My most restrictive locomotive requires min. 24" radius. I'm not planning on making the entire layout accessible to...