Well it looks like I have 58 full straights, 11 half straights, 35 R2 curves, and 6 banked curves. I'll try and post photos as the work progresses. Between this track and the model railroad track I'll be a busy guy between now and Christmas. I can then play around with the track pieces and see what I can fit.

I was going to start with a 3' x 8' sheets but I think I've figured out a way to use the full 4' x 8' sheet and have it fold up to the wall, and then put a 4' x 4' module at each end to make kind of a U shape.

I may try and find the tighter R1 curves to allow tighter turns, especially 180s to allow more track in the same area. I have mostly R2 curves so I'm limited on the radius of the turns. Plus, as has been said, the actual track pieces have flexibility to them once several are attached, so if I have a 10' straight and it needs to move 1/4' to attach at the other end I can move it that far. I kind of figured that a free program wasn't going to be perfect (even the American Flyer track module gives me a case of the crazies, and there are only about 6 track pieces). I suppose I could cut down the length to 10' which would allow access to that corner by walking around the track but I really wanted to use the maximum amount of room.

The problem I see with the 4' width is getting to the far corners to retrieve a car should it go off the track. I'm trying to figure out if I can fit the layout on a 3' wide table of if I need to go to 4' wide. My plan was to have a section 12' by 3' that would fold down from the wall and 2 other sections 3' x 4' that would connect to the long section to make a U shaped table. I'm building a fold down table in the garage (Mama nixed the idea of using one of the bedrooms because 'there might be another grandbaby coming' so I'm once again banished to the garage. Any suggestions? I'm at a point of taking all the track sections and actually putting them together on the floor to see if the layout works. I've tried removing full sections and replacing it with half sections and quarter sections but I can never get the track to complete properly. I start from point A and add track sections but when I get back around to point A I can't seem to get the end of the track to match up with the beginning piece. For some reason I can't seem to get the ends to match up when I build the track. I downloaded the AnyRail program, which has a Scalextric track module. I've been trying to figure out the best way to figure out how big a track I can build with the track sections I have.

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