layout

[buzhodges]

want to run trolleys with regular trains on 5x8 board, any ideas for the track layout?

[SteamGene]

Get an Atlas track planning book and then build your layout with the concept that trains and trolleys share the track.   Used to happen all the time.
Gene

[taz-of-boyds]

You can also do some things with streetcars, you can't with regular trains, that is some really tight radius curves, for example turning through a city street intersection.  One of my favorite streetcar lines built an amusement park a few miles away from Cumberland, MD to give the locals more reasons to ride the streetcar.

Have fun,
Charles

[Summertrainz]

1. think of an era
2. look for a place during that era
3. model that place
this is good because you are not aimlessley building things
and then
find a basic track plan
try a double loop
get a basic idea and go for it
need trolleys?
bachmann has a highly detailed trolley set
i dont have trolleys on my layout so
just ask google trolley layout online
itll spark your imagination
you'd be surprised the amount of deatail you can put into a 5 by 8

[Guilford Guy]

http://index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?opt=I&MAG=MR&MO=11&YR=1988
Try this magazine. It has a Great Trolley plan in it!