I built what I thought was a decent enough layout for my trains in DCC, 2 x roundy roundy tracks and at a lower level, I suppose what you would call a shunting yard, recently I have kinda moved away from the steam engines to the diesel engines and have bought 5 second hand locos over the last few months and fitted them with decoders, they all run smashing, ive even fitted lights into two of them.
My problem is I can really only run two locos and coaches/wagons on the 2 tracks , I now realise how small the layout is ( 4ft x 8ft ), I'm running out of running room, its very frustrating not being able to run more than two trains. I have put more than one train on each track at the same time but have to watch I dont cause any accidents and derailments.
Looks like I'm gonna have to have a rethink about the layout, its got to be extended somehow, but I am restricted to room ( i can make the layout a bit bigger than it is at the moment)
I have been thinking about using a helix and maybe using two or three different layers to give me the amount of track I would like and to run a few trains at the same time.
This is my very first blog ever on any forum, so be gentle with me regarding comments.
PS. Just wanted to thank everyone for help and advice given to me over the last few months.
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