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I have noticed that switchbacks on layouts are one of those like/dislike items. Fact is that switchbacks always provide some drawback (switchback = drawback - my English is deteriorating rapidly) and real railroads will try to avoid them for that reason like the devil the sacred wate. However, sometimes it pays off to artifiacially create a bottleneck in operation to add some suspense and challenge to operation. Just think about it... SMILE (my emoticons are gone...)
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