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<p>Stein-As you will notice from my plan I was able to a 1' to the length making it 8'.What I then did was to center the origional plan and extent the main 6" in either direction.What I did then was as you can see in the plan was to eliminate as shown in your sketch,the crossing and spurs 1&2.Spur 3 I made into a clean out track for steam cleaning the insided of boxcars prior to reloading.As far as the coal spurs are concerned-as you can see I straightened out the track,made one a switchbacks to service to pallet works and the coal dump.I needed the room for the coal structure. I figured that by adding track to the pallet factory I could add switching possibilities.I also added a wood chip hopper at the end of that track and was planning on putting a wood chip hopper that I made from a regular hopper car.Although it may look like a switching problem,the hopper car can remain in place for sometime before it had to be moved.In the meantime the factory can continue to get lumber loads.The overhead crane in the team track area is just a thought.I'm not sure if I'm going to keep it.</p><p>If as was suggested that the runaround track be made bigger,how can this be accomplished?</p><p>I don't want to undo any more than I have to.I do feel that by making it longer I might lose some track capacity to the lower tracks.</p><p> Would things work out better if I put the crossing track back in and added a sput to lower left? </p><p>You are also correct when you said that I was looking for suggestions and/or ideas.Although I like the way the plan turned out,there is something in the back of my mind that bothers me about it but I can't put my finger on it.</p><p>If you will remember when you were helping me with this plan was that I was trying to loosly base it on Airlake Park and you suggested that if I could increase the length on the layout from 7' to 8' I could bring in a few more cars.Like I said I was able to increase it to 8'.</p><p>There was one idea I was toying with to increase inbound/outbound capacity but I wasn't sure if it would work. That was to take the left side mainline track and curve it upwards and then adding a straight track to it.If this could be done it may help.It would mean shorteneing the tracks in the upper left but not by much.</p><p>I would be interested in hearing from you again about this.It changes are to made now would be the time.I haven't started building it yet,just buying track.</p><p>I had a copy of the plan before I made changes.It includes a crossing and industry spur in lower left.I curved the main line on the left side but I don't think this will gain much.Anyway now you can compare the two plans and let me know if any other changes could or should be made without getting too radical. Bob</p><p>[IMG]http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u234/foulrift/tp-4a.jpg[/IMG] </p><p> </p>
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