Bob, do you have ideas for how to scale the buildings? Are we going to use minifig scale, ex. the height of each brick is roughly 1.5 feet? Should the size of the incline car be determined first so that the buildings can be scaled proportionately to it? I can start digitally designing either building once we know what size it has to be.
Greg, I think the size of the cars needs to be determined first, plus the spacing between tracks, and then the buildings scaled around them. Here’s a couple of pics that I grabbed off of the internet for the cars. I’m thinking 8 x 16 for the floor area of the car at a minimum. I think Walter already has a couple of cars rough built, so maybe he can chime in on what size they are. I was also going to play around with something before next week.
Don’t forget that the upper building has to also house the mechanical equipment (drum, pulleys, motor, etc.) that we come up with.
