Planning: Extension of a current show modular layout.

[Keisarikonen]

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The layout was brought to the Finnish Railway Museum and was a success. A lot of people love the modular style of the layout as well as the themes it introduces. Meanwhile, the current sakura shelf layout had an issue with the turntable and I fear it would not be a positive addition. 

 

Instead, I have decided to repurpose the cherry turntable into a spring module extension, but it presented another problem with balance. Sure, you can argue that Finnish summer and fall are barely what one would call long, but I have decided to create two extra 60cm modules to the layout, making the entire thing about 2,3 metres in length. 

 

Moreover, the industry and passing station will be merged into one for the winter layout and instead of being a dead end, would rather create half of a station/depot. The idea that trains will be switched based on how long it has been run by the visitors. Since the idea of the layout is to have both controllers runnable by visitors of the table. 

 

But I am wondering if this is too ambitious, that maybe there is another thing I could possibly do. What are your thoughts?

 

These are the rough plans.

 

Edited 11 hours ago by Keisarikonen

[cteno4]

Great it was a hit! Extensions look good. Always nice to have passing tracks like that to easily bring out different rains fast. With visitors around its usually good to have operations as simple as possible as easy to get distracted with people talking and such and keeping the train rolling helps keep folks attention, some get frustrated with more complex switching of trains on and off sidings and leave at that point. Also easy to direct public operators to stop at the station, you switch the points and then they take the other train out, fun for them and easy to direct.

 

Are you planning on some different depth modules to get more scenery bits into modules?

 

jeff