Saturday 20 October 2007

Layout update

New track plan for the layout!

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Improvements:
-The second loop is now slightly large and the turns are constant radius all the way round

-Port Rosea now has only one platform and one through line. Didn't seem to make sense to be building two platforms and it compressed everything.

-Right hand turn is more constant radius.

-Flex track used for all the long straights to minimize joints.

-Glenstowe side track reworked to remove roundhouse (none of the kits I can find fit with the art deco kitbashing plans), and add a shunting/fiddle yard type area. More fun to operate and it makes better use of the uber expensive 3 way point I wanted to have somewhere in the layout.

oh and the airport runway is slightly longer. I'm still modelling a steam catapult into the surface to account for how it's too short for scale takeoff though!

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