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<p>Im not happy with the idea of yarding a train with the engine way up to the end of your drill and your switcher way down to the left trying to caboose to that short track.</p><p>At some point you might want to cut off one or two body tracks and use the new found space for a additional run around. You are going to bite off a section of the newly arrived train, set it there, back the train down, bite off another section and hopefully find room to stand with it until your road power gets out of there and into the engine house.</p><p>I think the result will be three sections of train on three seperate track with your switcher on the wrong end of it all and no way to run around to reach your ladder.</p><p>Driving your road power into your switcher's drill track is a bad idea. That switcher needs to have exclusive ownership of that track. YOU MAY put a caboose track somewhere in the engine facility so that your crew does not have to walk the length of the yard.</p><p>I see you coming in from the lower left. Stopping your train with the road power cutting off and proceeding STRAIGHT ahead into the engine facility and your switcher coming down off the drill and pulling the cut off the train to be backed all the way up the drill track and then shoved into a yard track.</p><p>Eventually you will run out of train and reach the caboose. Isnt it nice to have the caboose track on the right side? And not waaaaay to the left? If your train was coming in from the RIGHT your caboose SHOULD stop somewhere near that one crossover so your drill track switcher can get to it. and then chew on the rest of the train until the road power is clear to back all the way into the engine facility.</p><p>You may want to extend the OLD caboose track towards the left side yard lead and call it the engine escape track.</p><p>Suddenly you need two operators now. One to drive the road power and the other the switcher.</p><p>Oh, your train length is going to be decided from Engine to Caboose by the switch off the mainline onto your yard lead all the way to your crossover for the drill track. You dont want to hang out onto either mainline because that might interfere with other traffic that wants to use it.</p>
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