Well after what seems to be a few months of on and off design work, I think I have made it to the point where I'm ready to work out the L Girder bench work and start cutting some lumber. I thought I had everything pretty much worked out, only to realize today that the hidden track under the town really doesn't have enough clearance to be hidden. At first, I thought I would back up and do some more design work. The more I thought about it, the more I decided that I had spent enough time designing. I'm ready to start building and actually be able to run some trains! After all, once I get the girder work in and set the risers, I'll have a better sense of things once the girders are in and I get the risers in place. So here's the current design:
One other interesting discovery was in a bunch of old Model Railroader magazines I recently found online. I was looking through the April 1957 issue and came across the original John Armstrong article that had the beginnings of this layout design. This is the first time I have actually seen a good quality resolution of the original layout:
