A Look At Slate Creek.

[steinjr]

Brakie

I drew up your layout in Xtrkcad, I made a few changes such as expanding the lead to 2 feet, I also modified the spurs.


As you can see, a 2 ft lead can hold a small switcher and 4 50ft cars, I don't know what cars you are going to use, but this should give you an idea.

Looks fine. And if you want to, you can stick another spur going the other way (towards the left) at the left end of the layout, and either switch that as a facing spur with the engine arriving from the right pushing cars, or as a trailing spur when the engine arrive from the left pulling cars (whether it is a facing or trailing spur just takes a mental reorientation of how you think of the modeled area being connected to the rest of the world).

Smile,
Stein