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I haven't seen this kind of problem discussed and I might very well in the end take this question over to the ops Sig discussion group and ask there as well, but I thought I would pose this question here for my sake, and others who might be interested; and those who might have ideas. I designed an N scale layout in a study which has achieved the "empire" status I wanted. At present, I have two decks up, with a third planned underneath the first, to handle some, but not all, staging. With out going into boring details of the layout configuration, I can say the layout can handle a lot of operations and operators. The room is difficult to describe, but is sort of 9 by 13 in one half and 7 by 13, in the second half of the room. Here is my dilemma. The room will only comfortably hold three operators, which I think will only keep the layout running "marginally." So if I have two decks and one train on each deck running, the third guy can be operating one yard and that is it. In other words, I have more layout than operators. Is there a way to "stretch" operators? One thing I have considered is to have computer running in and out of staging. So the computer would take a returned train into staging, and move a requested train out of staging ready to run. But other than that I'm afraid I am limited on ideas. Any thoughts?
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