A New Garden Layout

[Graham ASH]

Ive been off here for 4 weeks as Ive been moving house. The benifits of this is that I now have a back garden, which measures 80ft long, by 18ft wide at the house end and 16ft wide at the top of the garden, the garden also rises from the house about 3ft to top of the garden.
I intend using Peco Code 200 track, and would like to build a Logging / Mining layout in this area. There are no restrictions to building, but I reckon it will make a superb area for what I have in mind. I will be running it on DCC which will be inside - any ideas / thoughts please.
I would like to incorporate at least two trestle bridges


Graham

 

[bobg]

Yeah! Go for it, and don't forget the piccies!

 

[beavercreek]

Wow starting from scratch....just what I would like to do knowing what I know now!

On the ground, in the air, with lots of planting, without plants, using lots of natural rock, using concrete, single track with spurs, double/triple tracked with reverse loops...the options go on..and on

There are some good books on the building of a railway as well as copious amounts of good advice from this venerable forum.

This little blog might give a little help, although there are as many ways to construct a garden railway as there are railways!
http://riksrailway.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/how-to-build-garden-railway-or-if-i.html

or this one
http://www.shoppeforeman.com/ctggar.htm

 

[Graham ASH]

Thanks for the replies, Im actually going to plan this one a bit. It will mainly be Logging, but with a touch of mining. I hope to build the railroad tracks zig zagging up the garden, with a logging part which willing have reversing pieces and wyes. I will probably have a complete circle of track so that I can leave something running, and a logging camp, a looo shed and maybe jst maybe a Sawmill.
Im staring slowly this will be my last layout
Graham