Rebuilding the upper and lower loops of the RR, I had an insight that will both allow better foot traffic flow, less “Fill this in with dirt” areas, and also have a couple of ground-level access points should I ever want to expand across the yard to the other fence. First up is rebuilding the upper loop. You may recall from this past spring, I increased the radius of the loop. Unfortunately, that left me with some sections 3+ feet in the air. Here’s the OLD track plan of both loops.
You might notice that the heights, and the total vertical climb, is only about 18". Both loops were contrived a bit, with some “going up to here, then going down to there”, when I had actually thought I needed both loops to climb. I started to notice this when I put in the bridge over the track at Majestic, both ends of the approaches were going up. So, a bit of puzzling, and I came up with this design. Trains still travel about the same amount of track (about 10 feet less), and gain the same altitude, but the layout is a bit different, and I dont have the upper loop to fill/grade/wall/trestle/etc.
