As I've posted elsewhere on this forum have a look at http://www.carendt.us/ There are some very interesting ideas there [IMG]
I've seen some pics in 'Trains' of yards in West Virginia that were not so much curved as 'S' shaped as the tracks wound between the mountains and...
I don't use foam but use cork straight to the plywood. I've found that foam (if you are considering the soft stuff) to be prone to end up with...
By some standards, particularly here in the UK that is a quite generous size even for HO. Have a look at the Micro Layouts web page:-...
I grew up and indeed still live in England. My first train memories are around 1950 from beside the London Transport Metropolitan line from...