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Hello again, all, Standard Preface: Please forgive my ignorance. I am still working on getting my first layout set up and have messed around with a few track plans. Then, I decided to look at the Beginner's pages on the NMRA website and saw a pretty cool track plan that was complex enough to be interesting, would support two different trains (I have a 2-cab-control transformer) and allowed for expansion. But (there's always a but) maybe I am missing something. I know that trains always operate in forward and reverse. However, it would seem that most of the time when they are on a mainline, it would be desireable for them to be moving forward. My question is this. In the instructions for that track plan, it suggests that the locomotive should go "forward" around the track in a counter clockwise direction. However, I don't see how a locomotive moving in that direction would ever be going forward on the main line. Is the counterclockwise = forward simply a suggestion to keep the wiring straight and then you drive it the other direction? Am I missing a way to turn the thing around on the track? If I am missing something rather obvious (which is most definitely possible) then is there a group of track plans that would show a layout and then describe a "typical" operating session on said plans? I don't want to get a really cool looking track plan all figured out, laid down, and then be lost the first time I try to operate it. Driving trains in circles is one thing. Doing spurs and yards is quite another. Thanks, as always, for any isight offered. Darrin
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