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I can't offer a specific suggestion how to work it in, but I prefer one reverse loop with a "wye" entry. Gives you the "either direction" effect for a lot less surface area than two loops. I don't mean a "wye" in the usual sense of a three-legged wye that can itself turn trains, but rather a two-legged wye, meaning an entrance to the same loop from both directions of travel on your main. This is a very rough sketch of what I mean by that (the blue line), that probably doesn't really work in the context of your layout, but conveys what I mean by the "wye into loop" idea... [img]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c158/kristianj/reverseloop.jpg[/img] As a bonus, you can also have a train go through the loop and re-emerge running in the same direction (it doesn't HAVE to be a reversing loop). If this trackage is hidden, it gives you some good illusion. You can have the train "disappear" for a while, then continue on its way. Or you can have it disappear for a while, then reverse and "come back" (i.e. it went somewhere off the layout (another city?) and now it's coming back. Admittedly a bit of a pain in the tuckus to build and wire this (you have two polarity shorts to deal with -- less problematic on DCC), but very flexible if you can work it out. Personally I've never been pleased with any layout design I've had that has a reverse loop visible. It just always looks to blatantly 'toy" to me... I definitely prefer to hide them under a mountain or some such thing. But, as with most everything here, that's simply my personal take on it, and YMMV.
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