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Randy, I presume that you are interested in comments on the track plan?? A couple of questions: Is there a specific direction of travel??? What is the theory behind the loops at the top? I see that the outside train will go around the outside and beyond, but what about the inside train?? It runs around twice to get to the siding at the far right?? Speaking of the upper big loop area: From my perspective you have a lot of tracks eating up real estate that you might want for industries and scenery. Many of these tracks are redundant in that there is already a track going in the same direction to the same location. I would get rid of a lot of the tracks by losing the inner most loop and not connecting the tracks at the bottom left corner in a giant loop. I would flip the yard at the bottom of the loop and work it from the inside main. I would install switches at both ends of the the mains to create runarounds on the lower straight away. On the top I would also install switches to create runarounds on the straight and connect all the sidings to the inner main. This would mean that your outside track is your thru track (highball) and traffic on the inside will have to dodge the local working the industries. One more question: What is the function of the yard at the bottom of the loop?? Does it build trains? Interchange? Car storage? You could gain more room by losing the third track off off the lead . It is on the small side and you might want the space more than the five cars that will fit there. Regardless of what else you do, I would put in run arounds. To show you what I mean: Imagine that a train on the inner track comes from tracks at bottom left up from staging all the way around as far as it can go to the siding in the inner right side. It will be loco forward. How will it get cars from the siding behind the loco and into the train??? I know that your post didn't ask for opinions so I hope that all this makes sense and is taken as friendly critique of your plan...
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