Just a routine random inspection!

With added pounce!

"Your headlight's out!" "No it's no-" *BAP* "It is now!"

I can hear the passengers in the streetcar screaming in terror...

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/15866833/

These pictures are out of sequence.

Apparently among your fearsome powers is the manipulation of time...

Or it's not the first time Katjira has struck...

It's a Pussy Cat Car!

Oh noz! Katzilla!

Aieeeee!

You shall not pass! ^v^

~rawr!~ ^.^

How big is that layout? I'm finally to the point where I'm ready to build one of my own, and I still haven't fully settled on a scale. I have a space of 4x8 but what to fill it with - HO or O (I have both)? I see others' layouts of either scale and wanna build a layout of that scale. More recently I was thinking of building in HO and then joining LOTS to get my O fix in...

4x8, sitting on an old kitchen table. Outside oval is O42, inside is O27. :D

Ah, so you have two independent loops that can run two trains separate of each other, then? That's actually a design I was looking to build in O as I had gotten as far as two lines for running freight, and had plans for building a third for passenger/commuter service before life got in the way. You wouldn't happen to have a track diagram of your micro-empire, would you?

Never actually put down a plan, as the bugger just sort of grew, but....

Let me see what I can do.

Here ya go!

http://s289.photobucket.com/user/ma.....okqga.png.html

Hey, thanks for the plan! I printed it out, and I think I can make it work. A couple of questions about it... On the outer loop, are those one long section of 3' length and one half section of straight track you incorporated in your straightaways? And on the inner loop, are those modified straight sections on the ends or are those half-sections?

I have a Lionel milk car platform and coal loader to incorporate, so I like how there's room for a siding - or even two, if I can lay a second siding to service industry.

The plan is to build a semi-permanent layout that can be easily dismantled if necessary, so thinking about joining two 4x4 modular sections into one 4x8. Hopefully I'll be able to keep the layout, but if my wife and her BFF succeed in starting the in-home daycare they're talking about, that parcel of basement real estate is gonna be lost to eminent domain.

My pleasure! Hope you can use the plan.

1) Everything there is stock O27 bits except the 7.9" and 33.5" sections on the inner oval. Anything that's not marked is a stock half section.

2) No reason you can't put switches back to back and add a second siding mirroring the first. For a longer siding, add a curved piece and send it down on a diagonal. :D

3) Sounds like a plan. In either case. The kids can be amused by the trains and set up their sleep mats under the benchwork.

Heh... I'll have to make sure I put a fence around the layout, especially considering it's gonna be close to their level.

You know, between my wife's Lego collection and my trains, we're gonna be in an awkward position when it comes to teaching our kid to share...

(nodnods)