Stein's Minneapolis Warehouse district 1957 (HO)

[steinjr]

Of course, no matter how I do it, cars at Robinson (the middle of the five industries) will have to be pulled to switch any of the other industries - but that's the nature of those kinds of track configurations - with several neighboring industries along the same track.

Unless you want to intentionally have it this way, swapping those turnouts would partially solve the problem. I.e. move the pair on the right to the left, and the pair on the left to the right. That way, you can switch the industries to the left and right of Robinson while the cars for Robinson sit on the "runaround" between the crossovers. It would however, make switching Robinson itself more challenging.

Andrew

Yes, I've tried that configuration too, but I liked the one I have now better - I am not too fond of having to pull an industry to create space for a switchback lead for another industry.

I prefer to just do a plain pull of several industries at the same time, followed by a straight push to put new cars into several industries at the same time.

So it is done quite deliberately. But I don't know yet if it is a good idea or a bad idea - we'll see how it works in practice - it can always be changed again later if it doesn't work well enough.

Smile,
Stein, goofing off from xmas preparations - time to get back to the grindstone over here :-)