Happy New Year everyone and thank you for this great forum!

I have only just registered but have picked up some great tips and advice over the past year.

Fortunately I have been able to get my son as enthusiastic about model trains as I am and it is now time to move his tracks from the the floor of his bedroom onto a table. Since we both love to see the trains riding along the track and since we have limited space I wanted to do a multi level layout.

Again, due to the limited space available, we have decided the layout to be a single track and we have also stepped away from the helix concept. I have kept the gradient to a max of 2.5% and tried to use R2 curves as much as possible.

The idea is to have cutouts in between the loops to ensure there is a "relatively" easy access to the trains in case of derailment etc.

There are still some things I am working on with this layout but I would love to hear your feedback to see if this layout has potential.

Thank you so much and have a wonderful day,

Serge
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Cool, reminds me of my late "five track levels on two module levels" ca. 1 x 2 m layout "Hi-Land", which was my wife's favourite.

Link: https://www.marklin-user...adland-and-Hi-Land/page8

The lower yard module had a clearance height of 20 cm, which is the bare minimum for manual intervention in case of a mishap; furthermore, I found out that scenicking such an "enclosed" lower module only makes sense up to a module depth of 50 cm, since the human eye no longer perceives details behind it.

Hi Ak,

Thanks so much for your response and advice. I love what you did with "Hi-Land"... looks like a great layout on such a small surface area.

At the moment we are not planning to do much scenery but perhaps at a later stage we will add a little touch here or there. Also, the idea is to keep the layout as accessible as possible so there will not be much room left.

I had a good look at some of your other layouts and noticed that some of them have pretty decent inclines. I tried to keep the inclines on our layout to 2.5% max and we are planning to run shorter trains (at least that is what my son keeps promising me ). What is your experience with this... have you noticed your trains struggling going uphill?

Most of our engines are the lighter ones so even though we did some trial runs... I am still a bit concerned since most of the layout is going uphill.

Thanks again!

Serge

Thank you for the very helpful feedback Ak!

We will now start preparations for building the actual layout. Once it is up and running I will share pictures of the process and the final result.
Hope to have it completed by summer.

Greetings!

Serge