In my original post asking for your thoughts and advice on a track plan, I said that I might have access to a long, narrow strip of backyard to set up a temporary layout. Well, today, DW not only gave up on trying to grow anything under the pittosporum trees, but she said she was tired of picking leaves out of the cocoa shell ground cover and was gonna go with bare earth.
So I said,“Maybe I should just throw some track down on it, heh, heh.”
No response one way or another, but I think I could finesse my way into building something, so here we go.
What do ya do with 5 x 22 feet, plus an odd-shaped 3-foot end section? There are those three trees pretty much in the middle of the bed and their rootballs are about 1 foot in diameter. This means the tracks will either have to straddle the trees, or avoid them by staying either in front of, or behind them.
I’m thinking a switching layout, pretty much linear, since there’s no room for a loop unless I run track out onto the flagstone patio. As I said elsewhere, I have about 200 feet of Aristo and USA trains brass straight, and three, #6 Aristo turnouts. Plus various radius curves.
I prolly need more switches, ya?
Gentlemen, start your track planning apps.
