Pie is your friend…
How much track in your circle?
At 10’D x PI= 31.4’, a half circle is roughly 15+’ or 3 sections of your track…
John
John Caughey said:
Pie is your friend…
How much track in your circle?
At 10’D x PI= 31.4’, a half circle is roughly 15+’ or 3 sections of your track…
John
You might as well put a book written in Chinese in front of me 
Actually if I knew how long the straights were, I can figure it out from their. I have the curves fairly close. The straights that Im not sure.
Keep up the good work!
Its looking good Shawn:)
Shawn (napkin builder) Viggiano said:
John Caughey said:
Pie is your friend…
How much track in your circle?
At 10’D x PI= 31.4’, a half circle is roughly 15+’ or 3 sections of your track…
John
You might as well put a book written in Chinese in front of me
Actually if I knew how long the straights were, I can figure it out from their. I have the curves fairly close. The straights that Im not sure.
John Caughey said:
Pie is your friend…
I’ll take apple, with two scoops of ice cream, please.
Steve Featherkile said:
John Caughey said:
Pie is your friend…
I’ll take apple, with two scoops of ice cream, please.
I’ll take a slice of cherry pie, with 2 scoups of coffee ice cream… 
Pi R Round, Corn Bread R Square.
Apple w/Ice cream please.
I like a good summer smash or winter smash pie (berry mixed)
Shawn (napkin builder) Viggiano said:
I like a good summer smash or winter smash pie (berry mixed)
Do you smash it like Gallagher does watermelons???
If you put a saw mill between the 2 loops, one loop could be for the logs coming in, and the other loop could be for the lumber going out. That way you have a reason for 2 tracks that close together.
I prefer cherry pie, thanks.
Ill have cherry too, thanks;)
Great idea David. That would work perfec.
I made great progress today. I have all the lengths figured out to make it work. I got most of the outer loop complete. Just have to link the reverse loops to the outer and I need one more right hand switch. I have to work the next three days. I hope to finish it up Monday when the weather is nicer.
Hi Shawn:
I gave a bit of though on how to implant the layout on the ground.
I think that a 5 ft or 10 ft square mesh carefully laid - materialized with wood stakes or pieces of steel rebar connected with string - will be useful to keep everything more or less in place.
Once the grid is in place the turnouts can be located. In figure 2.1, I give you the coordinates and orientations of each turnout, or group of turnouts (center of the straight alignment). The coordinates are the distances relative to the left and lower borders of the main grid, and the orientation, the angle, in degrees, that the straight leg makes with the horizontal. The location is important, the orientation not so much in this stage.
Next, the vertices can be located (with stakes), and connected with pieces of string. The alignments of the straights will then be defined. In figure 2.2, the coordinates of each vertex are given. To simplify, the distances are measured the nearest string of the ten foot grid; for example, vertex #8 is 20+0.58=20.58 ft from the left border, and 10+1.22=11.22 ft from the lower border.
Finally, the center of the curves can be placed and the curves can be drawn on the soil using a piece of string with the radius length sliding on the center stake. The coordinates of the curves centers are indicated in figure 2.3.
Two different radius are used: 1500 mm (5’ 11” and 1200 mm '(3’ 11’’ ¼: the reason for this is that, to maintain compatibility with LGB, Aristocraft used metric dimensions, although indicating measurements in feet, converted at the approximate 1 ft = 300mm and not the correct 1 ft = 305 mm. The divergent leg of the wide radius turnouts has then an actual radius of 1500 mm and 18° of curvature, while the straight leg is 475 mm long. It seems then appropriate that the other curves connected to them have a similar radius.
In figures 2.4 and 2.5, the development of the curves and of the straights is indicated, for verification mainly.
After plotting the layout on the ground, track placing can begin – the fun part.
Figure 2.1
Figure 2.2
Figure 2.3
Figure 2.4
Figure 2.5
If the figures are not legible, I can send you a high resolution pdf.
Enjoy
José Morais
Headmaster of the Lapa Furada RR
Oh wow, now that makes sense. I don’t know why Shawn did not come up with that sooner.
Ron Tremblay said:
I don’t know why Shawn did not come up with that sooner.
Ya Shawn " GET WITH IT MAN "
Wow that will really helps me out. Amazing work. Thanks again Jose and thanks for a great track plan. Monday the weather will be more tolerable so I will be able to get everything laid out. Now Im really looking forward to the spring.
Shawn (napkin builder) Viggiano said:
… Now Im really looking forward to the spring.
If it ever comes …
Looks like you have some good fun ahead Shawn! You can work through the winter! You can always shovel off the snow and cover the works with a tarp overnight. (-;
I really like those plans. Are you going to make the reverse loops automatic?