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O-72 Layout on a Budget, Part 1

Make this 21' by 8' Layout  Step-by-Step


Here's the layout you can build, a little at a time. At 21' by 8', it's one of the biggest budget layouts!  This layout uses 72' curves and switches throughout, with regular, half and 40' long O gauge straight track.  It allows for excellent switching action, good long running, loop and point-to-point type operations.  For those running long trains and who have the space, and those who want to be "scale" it's a project to be enjoyed.  Building as we do in stages, even a poor man can eventually have this rich man's layout.

NOTE: There are two parts to this layout  Use links at bottom of this section to access the second half of the project.

Start with a wavy dogbone, as shown

One switch makes a siding on top, a second adds another

One switch on the bottom spur adds another siding.

One more switch, one more siding.

A switch on the right loop and a spur makes a passing siding or cut-off

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