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Maureen, On my railroad I have designed a hybrid of the “closed world” and interchange with the rest of the world idea. It is a double deck layout with the bottom representing Central valley in CA circa 1950. The top is Sierra based loosely off of the YV, Sierra and Hetch Hetchy railroads. This plan allows me to run SP and Tidewater Southern prototype around the valley on the bottom (cab forwards and mammoth steam) and run shays and old stuff into the hills. I have been inspired by Dave Adam’s Durlin branch and his ideas about operations somewhat. There have been several operations articles by him in MR over the years dating back to a least 2000. The operational design is point to point. Small branch line railroading with mainline harassment. The SP and Tidewater trains originate in staging and run through the scene back to staging. They interchange cars in the yard on the bottom deck of the layout. The “closed world” idea on my layout is to build trains in the yard at the bottom of the hill and send them up to the top and back. I have local freight, stock, mine, logging and passenger trains that originate on the layout and terminate on the layout. From the yard at the bottom they run through three scenes in the valley and then to a helix to the mountain district on the top deck. They roll around the top deck and depending on the train, end up at the far end of the line. The locos are turned on a turntable and they make their way back down. Along the way they set out and pick up cars. The design calls for a three hour session and roughly five operators running trains on timetable and possibly train orders (not sure about the dispatcher). Car cards are the deal a meal variety. I think the Fast clock will be at 4:1. The layout is about 5% complete at this point so I haven’t had a chance to work out all of the details operationally speaking. I’m sure that I will have a clearer idea of how many trains I can fit tin a session and how they will run after I get the basic track in (my goal for this year). Currently I have the staging done, benchwork for the bottom deck and a double track helix finished. Am laying track in the yard now. I have a lot more information about the plan in a word file I could e-mail you off forum if you are interested.
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