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West Coast, I like the layout concept. Nice to see some ideas besides the spaghetti bowl designs that are still with us from the 50's + 60's. I agree with shedding the tyranny of the engine house and yard area, particularly on smaller layouts. Having said that, I chose to have a small yard and engine facilities on my new layout because they fit in my plan of operation. The scene takes up the biggest single space on the bottom deck. The yard will be the focal point for sorting out trains and through cuts of cars as well as the origination point for the branchline going to the top deck. I have hidden staging along the aisle of my layout with all of the switches right along the aisle with manual throws and acessibility for maintence. Since things are barely into the tracklaying stage on the first level not sure how well it will work, but initial tests went quite well. I also have some staging in the helix on a second track that parallels the mainline for serial staging. May we see a trackplan??
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