{"id":71,"date":"2005-12-24T18:30:39","date_gmt":"2005-12-24T17:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/?p=71"},"modified":"2015-03-28T10:23:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T09:23:04","slug":"layout-design-for-the-lhr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/layout-design-for-the-lhr\/","title":{"rendered":"Layout Design for the LHR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have only a small area in the back yard for a garden railroad: basically about 8&#8242; by 32&#8242;. Robin and I did a detailed survey of the space so we would have an accurate idea where things were: sprinkler heads, fences, trees and other unmovable objects.<\/p>\n<p>I then used 3rd PlanIt to design the layout. It was very easy to recreate the Aristocraft sectional track in 3rd PlanIt and duplicate as many times as needed. I played around with a lot of different ideas before settling on the following. It&#8217;s very simple but scenic at the east (&#8220;top&#8221;) end. The ruling diameter with the curves is 5 feet (2.5 foot radius) so the layout is for small engines and rolling stock only.<\/p>\n<p>The other big feature was building elevation changes into the design. This appears to be a no-no for live steam engines, but my preliminary tests indicate that the 1.2% grade I planned should cause no major problems. And the layout definitely looks better with the vertical separation between the front and back.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Lost Hollow Railway by Station Studios, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stationstudios\/3543295740\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Lost Hollow Railway\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3594\/3543295740_b5d6465934.jpg\" width=\"227\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While building the layout, I decided to add a bridge at each end to drain the loops. They add visual interest as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have only a small area in the back yard for a garden railroad: basically about 8&#8242; by 32&#8242;. Robin and I did a detailed survey of the space so we would have an accurate idea where things were: sprinkler heads, fences, trees and other unmovable objects. I then used 3rd PlanIt to design the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/layout-design-for-the-lhr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Layout Design for the LHR&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-layout-design","category-losthollow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}