Input on a "Temporary" Shelf Track Plan

[steinjr]

Stein,I am not to good at computer drawing so,I will explain.

Here's what I would do.I would simply place the run around between the rip track and the mineral transloading track.This should make the warehouse owners change their minds about using trucks instead of rail.

You mean like this:



Or this?



Top one spares the team track area, but cuts down on the work space on the middle track on the right - i.e. the room for leaving inbound cars while picking up the outbound cars.

Bottom one essentially eliminates the team track area (or has the same issue as the warehouse runaround - cars at the team track has to be pulled before you can do a runaround move), but spares the storage space.

Both of the latter work just fine, but they all leave a layout that visually will be full of tracks right down to the front edge of the layout.

All three variants will work, and neither of them is inherently superior to the others - they just take the hit in different ways :-)

Smile,
Stein