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JohnPalmer, You specified no construction on site. Maybe looking into "Modules" that inter connect will assist you. Or possibly build your world on a series of rectangles such as 2x4 feet at a time. The long panhandle could be a dock, a harbor, or a staging yard possibly a logging or mining branch with a switch back to get to top. Schematic Ideas depends on what you want to do with your trains. If you like operation perhaps starting at the engine house then to the small town or yard to build a train then taking empties to each online industry and swapping for loads coming back to the yard. At the yard you can go ahead and make up a train of those loads and ship it to a interchange track (To a connecting railroad.) MR recently had issue about I/C's If you had a yard on the "other side" of your world you can send the through frieght there and switch those industries etc. You may want to build a way to run a train contiually. Sometimes visitors come and want to see a train run while you quietly make up trains in the yard several tains later they may begin to ask you questions about all those side tracks. Ergo time to operate. If you dont want to handlay track, there are plenty of options for ready made track. You probably will need to lay a subroadbed such as cork etc to cut down on sound. Ballast of grey will show yard tracks and sidings while off-white colored ballast will indicate a main track. Sounds like you can have a place to make and break way frieghts (Also through trains) and send them to each town on your road. Possibly a lap for each town will assist you in feeling of distance. Then an equal number of labs on return to the yard from the last town switched. Try for trains of 14 cars more or less. You dont always need to run just 14 cars. Sometimes you like to place a brawny engine and tie it down with many cars or a few trains will be shorter such as a shay with 4 log cars up a switch back. That is my ideas for you. There are many ways to build a road, and you have a good start already. Have fun and let us know how it goes. Lee
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