Eleanor Mentry

The most important thing when laying any track is to make sure that points are laid on a flat surface. If they are not then you'll get trouble, especially with very short wheelbase loco's. They will rock going over a point that is not completely flat, and as a result one set of wheels will not be in contact with the rails.

When one wheels is on the plastic frog, then this will result in the loco stalling! You can install extra pickup's and this will improve running. But well layed track this should not be required.

Eleanor

The above definitions of a micro layout, means that my Proposed Killarney is a micro layout.

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/2136/entry-19085-micro-n-gauge-layout-6/

Eleanor

Taking the design further, if you have a board, that only has a very short piece of tack to locate an extended Peco Locolift cassette. They are mechanically joined by replacing the sides with plywood ones.

The track is protected using rubber doorstops and thus the 2 hinged boards can be placed on a table without damaging the track on the fiddleyard board.

Thus the length of the scenic section can be greatly expanded!

Eleanor