Stein's Minneapolis Warehouse district 1957 (HO)

[MountainMan]

If you connected those two tracks in the center at Robinson with additional turnouts...?

I've tried a few different permutations there, including these:









An additional factor to take into account is that I need to have a section boundary somewhere in the region between the two crossovers I have today, to get sections of a suitable length for getting into or out of my small room easily, and I would prefer to not have a crossover straddling the section boundary. And that I didn't want to make too easy to switch - having longish tracks with several industries on the same track, where you had to pull cars at several industries to get things out of or into a third industry was fairly typical of the prototype.

I obviously could work some more on that part, but I figured I would just try it out and see how it works, and then come back to it later, if need be. One thing I could do fairly easily would be to just reclassify "Robinson Produce" to be a part of the industries on either side of it, and just use the loading dock for the side industry instead of any loading docks at "Robinson Produce".

We'll see how I handle it when we get that far.

In the meantime, it has become December 24th over here in Norway - it is Christmas Eve, which is the big day here - with a big family party, gifts, Santa Claus and the whole deal. Got the gifts for my wife wrapped - time to head back to bed for a few more winks before the kids wake up :-)

Merry Christmas to you all!

Smile,
Stein

Seems to my uneducated eye that connecting those two isolated center tracks would increase the efficiency of the yard...? :?