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 Wow,I am overwhelmed by the comments on my now "nearly finished" design - lotsa food for thought, again. Some additional remarks:Era will be late 80´s or early 90´s - so structures will be a mix of old time brick buildings and these corrugated steel things you see nowadays. The types of industries are not yet fixed, so they might change. I know I have to do this before I start buying rolling stock... The "Sentry Chair and Table Manuf. " will be in any case a 1-story building, so I can reach the turnouts, which will, offcause, be manually operated. While typing this, I think, I will change into a warehouse... [:D] Barge and tug need to be resized - I still have to make up my mind on what type and make I will use. I am also insecure about the grain elevator. The sheer size of it (height) makes it an LDE of it´s own and adds "structure" to an otherwise fairly flat layout,  but I am not sure wheteher this is not a bit too much. Once I start building the layout I will make a mock-up of it to check. To my knowledge, railroads tried to avoid single or double slip switches as much as possible, not only for reasons of cost. I may be wrong here, but the reason why I removed it was availability and look. Peco Code 83 track has no double slip available, yet, the code 75 material has "European" tie arrangement, ME has none available, only Atlas, which is hard to get where I live. The decisions which track to use needs to be made as well - I might even start to handlay the track (providing that the tremor in my right hand is gone). Does anyone have experience with building Fast Track switches - it looks so easy in their videos.You see, there is a lot to do before I can start to build. The next step is to print a 1:5 version of the track plan and build a cardboard mock-up.
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