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Trying a bigger plan--updated from comments.
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<p>I like this plan.</p><p>I will have to pick at it a little bit but I like this plan. Need I say more? Maybe later I will find something to pick on. I have to put away the big steam and get the 4-4-0 out for perspective.</p><p>That Lift Out is the key to the entire plan. Call it Keystone Gap or something.</p><p>Ok, I ran a train on it on paper, I can get a train built in the yard to either town, switch them and bring the results back to the yard. The siding on the top there next to the yard is going to be the absolute key because you can yard a train, run around it in one of two ways and shove the whole thing into a yard track and then go to the engine house without interrupting the main.</p><p>Must all that track be hidden? Try a different scenic effect after a few feet. To hide a whole train is to induce anxiety when operating it.</p><p>Dont forget that some railroads "Hung" thier engines or tender over the edge of the TT. Then again if your son's engine just wont fit then you have a wye option to turn it via staging.</p><p>The only other problem I see is that the siding at the mine is a tad short. Dont you at least want to make it as long as the total capacity of the mine tracks plus the engine and caboose?</p><p>Im not sure how long your staging is going to be, if you are able to maintain complete trains on each track ready to go then I think that you are all set.</p>
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