All mainline curves have easements, though some would be longer in a larger room. I chose 580mm (23”) minimum for big locos, passenger cars, modern freight.

The design is around the room on wide shelves. It is sectional, so pieces can be removed to work on them.

Construction uses a mix of new and traditional materials.

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The following devices have been invented or adopted by the SPL.

SPL1 Loconet distributor

Visitors
• Kadee-compatible couplers at correct height
• Wheels in gauge
• One tight truck, one free floating
• Weighted to NMRA standards
All SPL stock
• Wheels in gauge

Visitors
• We can accommodate DC drives on special occasions, but in general all locos must be DCC equipped.
• Track design assumes all-wheel pickup

Track

Welcome to the crew of South Pacific Lines. We want to share the SPL, hence the invitation to join the crew. We will also encourage visitors, especially kids (but not on crew nights – see below). School tours are a good idea. I envision an annual open day to show the neighbours what we are up to, and to raise a little bit of money for a charity too.

• Report all maintenance incidents. An incident is a derailment, a short, unexpected dead track, rolling stock hitting something, something broken. “Report” means mark it with the correctly coloured pin (written on the pin box), and if possible write up an incident chit and pin the chit.
• If you have nothing to do, there will usually be a few incident chits to investigate and fix