No. Avoid the cliche over under situations.
The track above the tunnel entrance has been done to death and screams "model train". It might've happened, but it always looks like a compromise on reality to fit in more crap.
Okay, there's that part where
twice I said not to get wrapped up on the exact track arrangement, bozos...
No intention of an over/under at all (unless as a staging yard outlet, and even then, the RGS had no tunnels, so it would have to be hidden). My plan there is to have the higher track descend behind a tree line and come around the front to Rico.
I haven't had time to draw it out yet.
While info agree it isn't common, there's a great example on the BNSF/UP main just north of the Kelso/Longview, WA area, where the now abandoned Weyerhaeuser tracks go right over the North entrance of the tunnel.
The RGS on the other hand never crossed over itself or any other railroad, and I have no intention of having mine do that either.
Gonna say it again for the
edification of all... I liked this plan for the shape of the layout.
I would adapt it for my own purposes, which would include:
1) No over/unders
2) Wider aisles (I have a bigger space)
3) Track arrangements that mirror the real ones at Placerville, Ophir, Lizard Head (minus the wye and snowshed), and Rico.
Oh, and just for
@Ed Kapuscinski, from the old Denver & Salt Lake Rollins Pass alignment at Riflesight Notch (before the Moffat Tunnel was built), a true Ed's Law moment:
That's if you want Ed to aprove.
Ed stopped approving when I quit doing Conrail...
