LooVille Extention to a L shape....

[Freightcars]

You'll need to switch to N scale first. 

The other alternative is to have a layout room that is almost twice the size. 

[Steve Smith]

The other alternative is to have a layout room that is almost twice the size. 
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Niel,

This is where (HO)rribly oversized ferroequinologists get the benefits on (N)ormal wrong; it equates to FOUR times the footprint, not merely double !

Steve

[Freightcars]

This is where (HO)rribly oversized ferroequinologists get the benefits on (N)ormal wrong; it equates to FOUR times the footprint, not merely double !
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I stand corrected

[LooVille]

Good Morning All,

As promised, I did some work over the past week and weekend and I think I have a yard with all the steam equipment that can work and that I'm happy with.

The grid is 100mm

The green section is my current layout. I will keep it as a module that I can take to the shows. There will be a few changes I have to make, but it is just on the 3 lines in front of the station.

Then the 2 red rectangles is the new layout.
Top left will be hills with a Castle.
Top right will be mountain (RoundHouse will be up against the slopes of the mountain) all the way to the left connecting with the hills.
Right edge will have a bridge and middle back just before the point will be a wooden trestle bridge.
The two grey sections of track will go to a second layout below. This will be just to store 3 or 4 built up trains.

Please give me your input and comments.
Lots of work and time is going to go into this layout, so I want it to work well.

Thank you and speak again.
Cheers.
Evert.
 

[capeklr]

Hi Evert,
looks great, just have one question, is there a reason that the section of track in the red circle is so curved?
Regards Jörg.

[LooVille]

Good Morning Jörg,

Yea, I'm not to sure about that bit hey. I could not make it work as a curve and still have it bigger than 300mm.
I think I will sort that part out when I actually build it. Will have to see...

Cheers.

[capeklr]

Okay, when you build try and do that section with flextrack.
You should then be able to get a nice smooth line with an easy radius.
Cheers Jörg.

[LooVille]

Jip,

I build with Peco Flex Code 80. I have about 100m 4x boxes of it at home already and I have about 20 left and 20 right Electrofrog points.
So I think I can get a far way.
I just need to buy all the wood for the bench work still. Then everything can start. 

Cheers,
Evert

[capeklr]

100 meters of N scale flextrack, wow how far do you want to extend your layout? 

[BigEd]

100 meters of N scale flextrack, wow how far do you want to extend your layout? 

To the street it seems 

[BigEd]

Evert, I think this will give you a lot of fun. You might have to make a tweak or two when you build it, but it looks stunning so far.

[Freightcars]

Hi Evert,

That can work.

As Jörg pointed out the S-bend that he circled is a concern but you've already addressed that.

Otherwise it looks good to me.

Cheers,

Niel

[LooVille]

Thank you very much for all the comments.

Thank you Niel for responding. And yes, as Ed also said, I'll have to tweak one or two things as I build.
Nothing is cast in stone.

Once all the bench work is done and the buildings footprints is made I will pack the track out and then we see again.
But I'll keep everything and averybody up to date with the progress. I'll be doing a full build pictorial again 

Can't wait to start.
Cheers,
Evert

[Freightcars]

Hi Evert,

No worries.  Keep us posted

Cheers,

Niel

[wesley]

Hi Evert

This looks to be a seriously interesting topic to follow. Having never built a layout ill be sure too learn a trick or 2.