03-02-2010, 12:57 AM
Russ Bellinis Wrote:I like #1. Looking at how long your spurs are, that is the only track plan that would allow you to run around more than 1 or 2 cars, and your capacity on your spurs would allow as many cars as you could fit in between the two switches in the top track of #1.
But would it provide any more fun to be able to shove three or four cars into a siding than it is to shove one or two cars into a siding?
The probably quickest way of switching a bunch of industries would be to have no runarounds moves at all. Just take a string of cars, make the mainline long enough that you can fit your entire train beyond the outermost turnouts both on the right and the left, and have one engine at the front of your train and another engine at the end of your train. All industry spurs are then switched as trailing spurs.
Not nearly as fun to run (f*) as Jack's plan, though.
Smile,
Stein
(*) from the comfort of our layout aisle, not from a too hot or too cold cab of an engine, being dog tired and having to get out in all kinds of crappy weather. Some aspects of real railroading I'd rather not model :-)