... involving kit and scratch building locos and stock, and, first thing, fitting out my garage as a suitable space. The garage refit is actually progressing, and I've acquired a couple of donor chasses for locos, so I'm starting to think it may actually happen... Ideally, I want to model as close to prototype as is absolutely possible. This is the prototype layout. It's upside down, because thats the way it will be built, with the top if the image butting up to the garage wall. 2632_271434_550000000.png Of the four lines that run out at left, the central two are the actual branch lines up to the Junction, and the outer two are headshunts for the yards, and terminate within the blanked out white triangle. At scale size, from the middle of the large crossroads at right, to the end of the headshunts at left translates to 16 feet. The space I have is only 18 feet, and I will need some fiddle yard at left. Probably a minimum of five feet? This means I need ...