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A gentle reminder - All too often I've seen (and been guilty of) track or benchwork plans posted without clear notation as to which scale they're intended for.

A configuration that might be wonderful in N scale might raise eyebrows in HO.

If there are elevation changes it's also very helpful to viewers to mark the main places they change.

And I find that a plan drawn over a grid in some standard size (feet or meters?) makes it much easier to visualize the reaches, aisle widths and radii involved.

If you provide this information when posting plans you're much more likely to quickly receive whatever help you may be looking for.

Cheers!

Charlie Comstock

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joef

Good point, Charlie!

You can't just use an HO track plan, for instance, in N by halving it's size. If the aisles are say 30", if you half-size the plan, now you have 15" aisles (oops ...).

Joe Fugate​
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