Track plan revision 4.2 :
1-2-3 ... levels around the wall

Introduction
This layout will represent a section of the Southern Pacific set in central California from San Francisco to San Jose and the Los Gatos branch line from SJ to Felton in the Santa Cruz mountains, to Santa Cruz. At Felton an interchange with a short narrow gauge line take up to Boulder Creek bigtrees area.

Era represented is from 1935 to 1945. This selection is to have 99% of the roster as steam and some degree of “just gone” depression time ( I like the old not well maintained look of city buildings and weathered structures in the country) but at the same time having on tracks the latest steam developments (GS4 , oh wonder !)

Space and Layout Design
I've planed to use part of the ground floor cantina in our house for the layout room.
The total space of the room is 4x4,5 meters (13" x15"), not so much also modelling in N scale!
After a long discussion with my lovely counterpart about : "we have lot of thinks to "leave here for a moment" ( you know? ), I'be obtained an horizzontal slice of the real estate: "anything ABOVE my breast". So, I restart my previous design under a new perspective.

A peninsula in the middle of the room represent San Francisco Mission Bay shop, China Basin freigth yard and 3rd & Towsend passenger station.
An around-the-wall shelf design support the main line from SF to San Jose with intermediate stops at San Carlos and Menlo Park.
A lift bridge cross the entrance door taking to a second level, where San Jose Diridon station and Lenzen Roudhouse / Shop are the start point of a Wye pointing in two directions.
1- The branch line from San Jose to Santa Cruz stop in Los Gatos , then cross the Mountains to Felton and to Santa Cruz on the see.
2- A descending branch take to a staging yard , representing south of San Jose line (the Coast line).

I've reserved a little space for a workshop desk for "dirty" jobs (mainly scratchbuilding structures, painting and plaster jobs ) and an old PC for the operating sessions.

Track Plan:
I have done a preliminary scketch to define the spaces and main dimensioning, so, please, don't pay attention on tracks (they follow this design stage soon)
Drawing grid : Red squares are spaced by 50 cm (approx 20” ) and blue grid squares are 10x10 cm (approx 4”x 4” )

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	Lower Level: San Francisco to San Jose: From San Francisco start the main line to San Jose: the Coast Line.
	Upper level: SJ to Santa Cruz: Branch Line goes from San Jose to Los Gatos, climb on the Santa Cruz mountains, descend to Felton and finally reach the see in Santa Cruz. A short Narrow gauge ( Nn3 ) line take up from Felton up to Boulder Creek.
	From San Josè start the main line to Gilroy etc.. to Los Angeles : the Coast Line. This is emulated in a staging level that end on a stub yard with a run-around loop positioned bottom of the lower level. Scene was not planned here ( maybe only one Ocean coast typical scene on the left wall? )

3D View of all levels