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4. Simplified layout concept for the Illinois Railway
Museum.
necessarily accurate for any particular commercial track, but I
consider them a conservative layout plan.
I intend to use commercial track switches, and the actual track
plan can best be laid out only with them in hand, using them to
establish the key geometry. With the track switches, I can start
by laying out the critical wye trackage on the door table top.
Once that is established, the rest of the loop with storage track
switches can be laid out.
I also did a layout study of an HO version, where I increased
the table size up to a standard 4’x8’ plywood table top; refer
to Figure 6. For this layout, the wye was moved off the main
line because the table top width could not accommodate the
necessary wye configuration
