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Here on the new, revised and re-revised Little River & Hobart its 16 hideout tracks each long enough to hold an 8 car consist plus head end power. Including one 20 footer, and one 15 footer for our long cross-country passenger consists and their M/U head end power. Plus a classification and transfer yards with 21 tracks averaging eight feet and set up for two working yard switchers plus. A&D tracks with a separate lead to the engine service area, roundtable etc. Separate coach yards and hideout for our work trains under the industrial suburb of our major city. The lead to that is alongside the engine shop and simply disappears behind the building. I suppose SOMEDAY we'll have more flanged wheels than we have track for but it'll be awhile. We devoted a lot of under-bench space to those hide-out tracks. Monitored for full/empty by photo cells with indicators back at the control panel. We're convinced that multi-level is where its at. Hope our 8.6 percent grades (15.5 inches in 15 linear feet) don't bite us when we get this new layout working. Please See separate post regarding that. If you're out of storage space for rolling stock, think multi-level. Boxes can be carefully flattened, packed and stored away from the railroad. Ours are down in the barn in the old hay-loft.
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