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You can have the best of both worlds even in the simplest of layouts - an oval with 2 spurs on opposite sides, and a diagonal divider, as shown in several suggested designs in MR track plan supplements. You would be surprised at the switching opportunities possible with just 1 loco, 6 cars and a caboose. , and a few simple rules. The oval is used to simulate time and distance between spurs A & B, and to run round your train to switch the spur. Trains must move clockwise from A to B, and anticlockwise from B to A. At the start and end of your operating session, the oval on one end, at the divider, becomes an interchange. If you do this on both sides of the divider - hey presto ! you have a bridging railroad. To simulate a more realistic operation, your main run could be a folded dogbone ., with a reversing loop added at one end, and a wye at the other, both inside the dogbone. The ends can then be used as passing / run round loops. If you run both sides of the dogbone close together- abracadabra ! you have a double main line. OK, this is all fairly simple stuff, but you will be surprised at the complexity of the switching moves that become possible, with just a few spurs. <br />
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