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My layout is primarily a switching layout. When we reach the operating with a crew stage the jobs will be: 1. Bringing interchange and/or home road traffic into the yard from staging. 2. Yard switcher, 3.2nd switcher operating in an industrial area. Yard switcher will bring cars to industrial area to be switched by industrial switcher and the industrial switcher will bring an occassional cut of cars to the yard to get them out of way once the industries are have either unloaded or loaded them. That being said, for the past several months I have had the priveledge of operating on an area layout which is quite large and very fast paced. Virtually no switching, but lots of trains run under train orders. Sign up for a train, find it, call the appropriate dispatcher (there are two) to get permission to leave and then run following the instructions on your train order card. I have never had the opportunity to experience this "racetrack" style of operation before and find it very interesting and very exciting. I have been operating on this layout since the end of last summer and only last week I had my first opportunity to leave and pick up a car at a station on the layout. I thought the lack of switching would bother me, but in fact the layout is a great deal of fun to operate. I'd like some opinions from some of you who have experienced both types of operation. Cheers, Ed
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