Most impressive!
You have been busy building your layout. I like the curved points and you seem to have working double slips? my one was problematic, so I removed it.
I also like that your trains have a journey from the terminus, through various stations on a continuous circuit, and a junction to a high level line with a return loop. So lots of operating potential too.
Nicely done Curtis....
Gizzy - you warned me against them and they've made me nervous but I'd already bought two so wanted to give them a shot. The terminus one is very reliable from my use so far. The one in Steinertal can be a bit random but I see where your "problematic" statement comes from. I did leave some flexibility in the track plan to remove them if I can't solve it though. I've spent years admiring them so at least wanted to try.
Thank you. Yes, honestly, a lot of those considerations were inspired by
ge_rik
so much of my appreciation go there. He has a
great post and video on running options and I was really impressed by the flexibility. After watching his video the original track plan was scrapped completely in order to try and make the options in (running loops, out and back, terminus etc). I don't think I had truly appreciated the layout design until I was filing for this video and I was able to have the two continuous running circuits going while controlling the U-Class.
That being said, the wonderful folks in this forum have been extremely helpful both actively (responding to my questions) and passively as I've tried to read and consume the collective wisdom!