CIty operations & street running

[steinjr]

But anyway I remeber and still have pics of tracks running everywhere turning all directions and in the industrial areas track in the streets with switches everywhere. The big question here is how do you recreate that realizime and operations? Can never seem to get it.

Btw - not really an answer to the question about urban switching operations, but in another forum I had a thread about realistic looking urban scenes, which gathered a lot of nice links and references.

Here: http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/p/135841/1523468.aspx

As for realistic urban operations, how about using scenario cards to determine how many cars to pick up and set out (and just picking a random scenario for that industry at the start of the session), combined with special instructions for how the various industries should be switched ?

Some examples on Linda and Dave Sand's Model Railroad web page:
Some spot diagrams and train briefs: http://www.sandsys.org/modelrr/modelbuilt/crt/
A discussion of some types of spotting arrangements for industries: http://www.sandsys.org/modelrr/modelbuilt/pi/

Smile,
Stein