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I think I'll do away with the factory, I think it will just confuse operators. I have a port to plug the throttle into, but it's a bit buried under the benchwork... I'll bring it out to the front where it belongs. That will defeat the purpase of the yard throttle, unless I have a switcher on the West end as well.The A/D tracks weren't just for arriving and departing trains, they'll probably be used for classifying cars. I should have labeled the other ones "storage"...This yard will origanate and termanate one local turn, and take blocks off one through freight in each direction for the local.The yard will have to be able to handle the cars off the through freights and work on the local. I haven't yet figured out the schedule, but I'm fairly certain that there won't be any more than one train in the yard at a time. Run-through traffic will be an intermodel train, but that just bypasses the yard on the mainline.I'm planing to control trains with "crew-change" points just outside of the yard, to control traffic so that the yard and/or the single track pass just east of the yard don'tget swamped with traffic. The dispatcher will have to tightly control traffic, because I don't have too many sidings if things get bad... I'm going to miss my staging yard... Would you reccomend adding more siding capacity on the curve just east of the yard? That's the current location of the staging yard. (I haven't torn it up yet, although I've almost finished the yard.) I think I'll probably go with Alex's design (a little modified to remove the random factory and add some more locomotive/freightcar servicing facilities), unless anyone has a better one? It will still be a long time before I can start building, as I've only got almost all of the classification yard up, and there's still the staging yard to go, although none of that is sceniced, so I won't have to scrape up the ballast and pull up the cork roadbed, just cut the track apart... Better get busy!
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