Mike Walsh's LEGO® Blog

I have been working on the layout plan for NCLTC’s Holiday Layout at South Hills Mall and I wanted to do something different. I don’t expect to build a bunch of new buildings for this layout but I do want to build some of the COLTC Modular Hills. I was unsure where I would place them on the layout but I am committed to build some of them! In the process of all of this mental planning I decided I wanted to add a diagonal run to the layout since all we have done so far is regular horizontal and vertical runs. I knew I had seen a write up on diagonal track geometries but couldn’t place my hand on it. A quick search of LUGNET resulted in this thread which ultimately lead me to Bill Ward’s excellent write up. Here is the result of my effort: