New track plan # 2

[steinjr]

Dang Stein, reading this I am ready to build the yard and staging right now just to operate it
I have read everything I could find on operations but seeing it explained like this really sounds exciting. That is what I call operating !
Another article I always liked is Byron Henderson's " A little love for the yard ".
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I am also a fan of Byron. He thinks and writes clearly, and has interesting stuff to say.

I've read articles by Byron both on his web page (and blog), in the LDSIG (Layout Design Special Interest Group) forum on <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ldsig">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ldsig</a><!-- m -->, on the Kalmbach trains forums, and quite a few of his published articles - in the Layout Design Journal (comes with a membership in LDSIG), in Model Railroader, in the annual Model Railroad Planning, and I believe he had one in the first issue of Joe Fugate's new ezine, too. Had to go back and check - yep - he did a story on the Hoboken Shore Railroad in MRH 2009-Q1.

Anyhow, looking at the plan, I would be tempted to shorten the top table 2 ft and put a curve there and finish the loop. I didn't do a loop before because I was short on funds, but right now I could afford it. Oh, and the left table is open on the bottom, so it could come down 2 ft.
On another thread you said you stink at track planning. Well, I think you do pretty good :!:

Thank you. But feel free to cannibalize it totally, tear it apart and build something new with the remnants - I just wanted to illustrate a couple of concepts (like some ways of using staging to feed into the operations on the visible layout).

Smile,
Stein