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Track map and plan

Endless story - caught in eternal planning, not (yet) reality! Dimension: The squares with stroke-dotted line have a length of 330 mm (approx. 13 inches).

Course

The double-tracked main line (cat wire) leaves the underground in south-east, leads in the foreground along the locomotive depot and disappears to the underground in the north-west again. The single-tracked line branches of behind the depot about in the middle of the scenery and leads through a loop in the south-west to the station in the upper level. There it splits. The line in the background, designed for push-pull trains, ends in a mall park station (refer to insert; in the big plan, 160 KB, only) in the far south-east. The line in the foreground leads over the depot area on a great bridge into a loop to the underground, passes under the station and appears west of it again. There is a branch, either to the incline heading for the main line or to the ramp for the station approach.
The »rail egg« in the depot area is just an option. Probably there will be left just one single siding to reach the branch.
The line in the underground is not clear yet. But much speaks for designing a »dog bone« (squeezed oval) arrangement with a park station for trains with about 1 700 mm. So for instance trains built with nine 26.4 m Eurofima wagons with an overall length of 165 mm in N scale (1:160). Whether this station is equipped with points or a big sliding board/service table is not cleared yet.

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Inspiration

Eckanlage mit Paradestrecke, p.102pp in: Joachim M. Hill, Modellbahn-Anlageplanung, 3rd edition, Düsseldorf, Alba-Verlag, 1991 (Alba Modellbahnpraxis Band 2, ISBN 3-87094-553-3).

Control

Elsewhen analogue self-block operation with constant current and additional driving transformer, if necessary. PC control rather improbable. (Otherwise I can truly watch the trains at the Nuremberg main station...)

Vehicle pool

Extending from period I (e.g. Adler) to IV (e.g. Airport-Express). Suppliers are especially Arnold N, Fleischmann piccolo, Minitrix and Roco, all N scale, i.e. 1:160.

(Thus in hope for a lot of bad weather... But to the level of the Miniatur-Wunderland (Engl.: Miniature-Wonderland) in Hamburg a very long way is to go ;-)