my train layout

[collectormania]

hi everyone,

i created this topic to show you my lego train layout

i began 18 months ago, and i already change all 2 times, i begin now the 3rd design i made... 

this is pictures of the 2nd design i made :

my custom train station : i find it on the net, i did not created it myself :

th city area :

 

the ballasted tracks :

industrial zone :

 

this pictures are from 3 months ago, now i finished to ballast all tracks

it was already a lot of time and a lot of money to do this...

[collectormania]

all you saw on ths first post is now destroy, and i begin to create another design, and i change again 3 weeks ago, and redestroy everything!!!

i'm crazy...

now i hope the next design will be the last one

this is the layout design with made with 4dbrix ncontrol program :

the layout have 2 levels, the down tracks are ground zero and the upper tracks are ground 1

the tracks unfinished are connections of the 2 levels

for ground zero, the left place is the train yard, i will have 10 trains waing in this area, plus 2 series of wagons waiting on 2 lines with decouplers

the right place for ground zero will be a sbway with 2 trains running and 2 trains in waiting areas

for the 1st floor on the right it will be the town with 2 tramways

on the left the train station will be up the 5 tracks and i will make a industrial zone and commercial zone

the very left place will be a petrochemical zone with a train yard for single locomotives on the top...

i just began to create this layout, i wil ltake pictures as soon as i made it...

the 2 levels will be 18 bricks high, the tracks that go fro mground zero to ground one will take 24 tracks for the inclination...

the decouplers and the motor switches will be 4dbrix ones

i will use their program ncontrol to control them

i would like to make automation for the layout with IR detectors, i will certainly use some arduinos

at this time i Don't really know how to dot the automation, if someone here already done a thing like this, i'm open to get ideas...

i think for some automation scenarios like :

a locomotive go from the loco yard on first floor, it go to the ground floor to search wagons in one of the wagons line, it make a few turns and then go back to the empty wagon line, decouplers cut the locomotive for the wagons, and then the locomotive go back to it train yard on first floor...

my problem is i really Don't know how many IR detectors i need and where to place them on the layout, and how to use them with ncontrol or other program...if someone have some ideas i take them

thanks for reading

 

[Man with a hat]

That's quite impressive. I especially like that station with all those platforms.

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

Really amazing!

[zephyr1934]

The second design looked really nice, I like the pair of nested loops with the station and the maintenance shop. There was a lot of operation potential there. The layout in planning looks like it will have even more going on.

 

[collectormania]

Hello, thanks to all for comments, i wil ladd new pictures as quick as possible with the new design, it is going ver yslow at this tiem to make the tracks again (and again and again…)

[Paperinik77pk]

Lovely layout...I'd like to see it "by night"