Biased Turkey, I've used flex track and commervial turnouts, and handlaid.
Hi Matt, haven't seen you around lately, hope you are well. The invite to visit is still open, pm me if interested.
Steamhead and Herc, thanks! When I designed the layout I thought there would be three of us building it, but it turned out to be just me for the most part, a friend did do some beautiful paint jobs on locos for me. Shortly after purchase of the house it is in, one friend moved, the other got busy with other things, so I was on my own.
A funny story, when my wife and I were looking at houses, obviously a suitable basement was high on my list of priorities. When the agent showed us this house the owners were at home, and friendly. A day later I wanted to come back for measurements, the agent arrainged for me to do so with the owners directly. They let me in, I asked to go to the basement, they looked astonished, thinking I would measure for furniture, I guess. When they saw me measuring where the lolly columns were, etc., they were just clueless. The looks on their faces was priceless! The layout was designed before the closing, but it took 6 months of work on the living areas before I could set foot in the basement. I've spent a lot of time there since! The early sketches were thrown out, but near exact dups were quickly drawn for the thread I linked to in my first post of this thread. That was the closest I came to scale drawings for this layout!