For a long time have been thinking about adding another loop to my layout but was not willing to pay the price in track. I settled for one loop and I am completely happy with it. Now my 3 year old operates the trains on his own with no problems. He also wants me to run a train with him. He would use track power with the train engineer while I used my battery. It works out great when we are watching the trains but when he gets side tracked he forgets to watch the train and well we all know what happens. So The second loop plan was revisted. Then the other day I was looking at my layout and thinking how could I add a second loop without having to buy much track. I started looking at my new logging extension and my original track plan (Phase 1) from when I first built the layout. Then thats when it hit me. I decided that I would go to my loop I had when I first started out (phase 1). All it would require is a few sections of curves. The outer loop would incorperate the new logging extension as well as phase two of my layout. This required about 12 ft of track. I already had 8ft left over from my last project. Anyway for those that are confused here is my current track plan and then my new one. Current
New (red line is original layout phase 1) (green is outer loop, right is Phase two and left is logging extension) (blue will connect both loops and is part of current track plan)