Update Progress and latest plan

Not a lot has happen. I finished putting the 1/2" plywood top on the layout. Mainly been prepping to install the backdrop. My MRR buddy Richard coming over Friday afternoon to help out. Here a link to photo's of his N scale Sand Springs Railway Layout.

Try to take some photo now that the room is clean up but both sets of batteries for my camera were out of juice so next time.

Here a update on the plan. I need to send this to my work e-mail to plot out on our large format plotters

Draft Plan of Current Vision

Here the draft plan of what I am starting to vision.

 

What I still do not have is a good ideal of is how am going to do staging.

Layout Planning has Started

I started with an walk-in design with staging off to the right along back wall.  I could not come with a plan that I like with how the staging entered the layout.

After viewing another MMR site that was using a published MR mag plan. This gave me a ideal, so I started again with the following:

The staging loop will be hidden. Based on my calc's I can stage 8 trains (2 per track). I still need to work out the elevations as the exit from staging on the right will need to grade up to the mainline.

Here a couple of 3D views first from room door

Next from a ceiling view

More to come!