our new layout
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Have you calculated what radius the inner bend on the left end is? It looks pretty tight. In general, what equipment do you intend to run?
it is a 11 radius and i shoud have said it is a upper part on the left end that looks tight and we plan on running a few SD's on the lower part and a couple GP's and SW's to do switching on top and in the town:thumb:
rr9731's girl said:This was drawn up by using track template
I still worry a little bit, tiny errors in the angles can make turnouts quite different than you expect. The small scale can let you draw things that are impossible.
XTrkCad is free, and has the advantage of letting you print out a full size drawing that you can use when laying the track. The biggest disadvantage is that it isn't the easiest thing to learn, it is not as intuitive as it might be. But doing the tutorials/demos over the course of a few hours gets you pretty competent pretty quick.
i'll be sure to check it out, this is not our first layout, we've built a previouse one almost like it and had no problems.
its been a long while but we have made a lot of progress on the layout in our spare time. we did have to make a change to the rail yard as it was to small, must get picture posted now.
WOW Its looking great guys!!!!! AWESOME job :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
Now lest see some more pics :mrgreen:
Now lest see some more pics :mrgreen: