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<p>"Once through a scene" is really the best way to go. No matter how you try to split a scene into two scenes it will still look strange if the same train comes through that scene again.</p><p>Based upon the space you have, you will have at least 160 feet of mainline (40' x 4). That equates to 13920 scale feet of mainline (160 x 12 x 7.25) or 2.6 scale miles (13920/5280).</p><p>If you operate at scale speed of 30 MPH (includes reduced speeds through towns, etc), it will take over 5 minutes for a train to get from one end of a layout to another without stopping. Five minutes does not sound like a long time but watch a clock for 5 minutes and you may think differently.</p><p>Then if you throw in realistic operations such as switching in towns along the way or stopping at passenger stations, it could take the train an hour to get from one end of a layout to another.</p><p>Bottom line: You have lots and lots of space, I would not try to complicate it.</p><p>Good luck,<br />-John</p><p><font color="#ff0000">Edit: Elmer (above) does have a valid point. You can have two different sets of trackage through the same general space. One track is a mainline and the other is a branch line. That is the way my layout is designed. The mainline is in the rear and higher elevations (in the distance) and the branch line is in the foreground and is where all the local switching takes place.</font></p><p><font color="#ff0000">The difference is that these are two SEPARATE tracks and functions. You would not have the same train running on these two tracks. There would be an interchange somewhere along the way.</font></p>
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