Pacific South Eastern Railway

[Wiredup]

Some major revisions of the track plan. I'm tearing everything up and starting anew...

I've been able to salvage 90% of my switches, the ones I couldn't salvage are crappy lil $10 Atlas switches that were causing major issues anyways, so I'm not bothered... all the Peco stuff was saved though.

So this layout SHOULD be less complicated, and much easier to build. I should also still get my 'mountain town' feel from it. I gave up the huge scenic runs to allow for more operation potential. But I still need to make some adjustments because I would really like to run two trains at the same time safely, and still be playing switcher in one of the yards/branch.

There is a total of 5 inches of elevation from the lowest to the highest track line in this layout, but I set standards before I started design and only broke one... my standard was a max grade of 2%. The max grade on the main is 2.6% which means I'm going to have some fun with those stupid woodland scenic risers.... so a 1.5% grade and 1% grade kit stacked should work.... The average grade is 1.6%

The standard for minimum curve was 12" radius... I ended up with 13" radius minimums! The average being closer to 15". this makes me very happy as before it was 11" radius curves and it was getting sketchy with my locos and passenger cars.

I'll be adding sidings to certain areas during construction depending on how the scenic goes... but I still wanna make a few edits...

Currently the is no way to run 2 trains at the same time without the fear of them killing each other... That and there is no real branch line either.... I got a 10x10 foot room! This should be easier.....

heres the plan:

upper level


lower level



I'm still not happy....



if anyone has any tips for me... here are the standards/concept I'm looking for:

- Minimum 12" curves for passenger cars. prefer 13" +
- Steam servicing tracks (4 for coaling tower, plus room for roundhouse and 130' table)
- double tracked passenger terminal separate from freight yard.
- passenger terminal needs a minimum of 5 feet of track (my longest train)
- freight yard
- lumber industry
- mining industry
- pulp mill (in terminal area?)
- freight terminal
- smaller branch line with freight/passenger terminal
- elevation changes
- max 2.5% grade
- water
- trains criss-crossin over each other w/bridges
- junctions