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[quote user="BRAKIE"]A ETT is priceless.[/quote] The ones I have discuss very little about yard design. As you so aptly pointed out.  Trains does describe over a period of months and years a lot of the modern answers to topics (at the time of printing).  You have a circular arguement.  Print books are obsolete-->industry everchanging.  How is a magazine article published 1,2,3 or more months ago any different?  The price of the book is 1 year subscription to Trains (or classic trains).  In that 1 year you will receive a magazine you can not possibly have more information about how things were done then, and some of the basic concepts discussed persist to this day.  For instance, a slip switch is more expensive to install and maintain, and its use should be avoided wherever possible.... 3 way switches should be avoided in yard design...  Google earth is a great tool, you will find only 2 lap switches in the hump at Moorman yard (which was covered in Trains magazine, but an indepth discussion of its design I do not recall).  That having been said, a hump yard is not really something most modelers have room to install. I could type the whole book here to prove my point (actually I dont think thats legal) I also subscribe to Trains.  But I have not seen much info on freight yard design, even less designing freight yards for model railroaders...... The dwell time is explained in the book.
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