Someday I hope to have a layout representing the UP triple track main from Gibbon to N. Mechanical problems are physical errors that will keep the layout from working properly. IвЂ™ve divided the common trackplanning errors into four categories: mechanical, access, visual, and operational. do i need a main buss loop for both the inner loop & outer loop or rjust run feeders from both loops down to 1 main buss run I am planning on 14 Ga. A little planning at the outset can save you huge amounts of time, effort, and frustration. It will be 3-4X6 sheets with 2 main line loops around the perimeter. There is also a branch line that ends at a coal flood loader, to add lots of unit coal trains. Question: I am starting a dcc HO layout in my garage. My idea was to have a 2 main track railroad, where trains could be looped for open houses and railfanning, but for operations, trains would come out of staging, run over the line, and either end at the modeled yard or back to staging. There is a 2x31В staging yard that would have been on the otherside of the left wall. The conversion to jpeg made it too wide, so its a bit skeewed. I drew this with openoffice draw, and is not to scale. Amoskeag Northern Railroad - Freelance HO scale layout based on a merger of the Boston & Maine Railroad and Maine Central Railroad in the early 1980s. I have not built this, this is only one option I am looking at, since I havent actually built the building that will someday house the layout. This design can be manufactured for N scale and HO trains. He also consults on layout design and has been commissioned. Double Helix: The Double Helix layout is a double track layout built from two helix kits with trains going up one helix, across the straight track and back down the other helix. This track plan is something that I would be happy with, so not everyone is going to think this is the best plan every, but I designed it for me, and I like it. His N scale Alkem Steel mill model won best-in-show award at the Madison, Wis., NMRA show in 1997. The track plan is suitable for running of long passenger and freight trains and also for lots of shunting/switching operations in the stations and branches. Im only bringing this out due to the above request. Large and complex U-shaped HO scale layout with main station on the upper level, connected via double main line and two helices to a large shadow station on the lower level.

Ho train layout plans 2 main lines