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[quote user="rayw46"] Tom, I have a question, and it's also for anyone else who is proficient at layout design.  It's about something I've noticed in a few other layout plans.  It has to do with the location of the Yard in relation to the Engine Facility.  Why did you locate the Engine Facility at Smithville so far from the Yard at Taylor rather than locating it at Elgin where the locomotives would have more convenient access to the yard?  If this was a decision based on the prototype having the Yard and the Engine Facility located in these areas I can understand it.  But otherwise it seems that it's a long run for a light engine to make from the Roundhouse to the Yard and visa versa.Please note that this is a question.  It's your layout plan, it looks good and I don't think I'm in a position to critcize it.[/quote]I feel that it's the availible space that dictates the location of the Roundhouse, Turntable etc.If he had the room against the Taylor Yard Wall, the facilities certainly would have been located very near the yard.But in the space provided in the plan, the only place to fit any kind of roundhouse is right there in the middle blob.I personally never thought about trying to run an engine "Light" from one town to the next before it actually goes to work, we used to deadhead "bobtail" all the time without our loads from the house to the trailer before actually putting the load on the 5th wheel.Looking at it from a operational view, I can understand how the light engine move would make things a little bit interesting.Bottom line, the availible space dictated that the engine area goes right there into the middle of the room. There is NO room for it anywhere else without trashing the whole plan and re-drawing it.We could probably attempt to bridge the facilities into Taylor yard by way of the 18" walkway to the right and tie into one of the spare tracks. That will leave Colorado Bridge open for the revenue traffic.
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