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I'm about to move into a new house that has a 15x20.5' bonus room that my wife has given me free reign to turn into my new layout room. I've decided to model my local railroad, CSX from Lithonia, GA to Social Circle, GA in HO scale. Good many through trains between Augusta and Atlanta (Mainly Intermodal, but also coal and mixed freights). Lithonia has a small 7 track yard with three industrial spurs, I'm skipping through Conyers, (the next city on the line) because the industrial areas are too spread out) then Covington which has a storage track for local industry switching, 7 industries (of which I've decided at least 4 will be modeled) and an interchange with the Great Walton Railroad, then on the way to Social Circle is Alcovy Trestle, which is a very tall, rather long plate girder bridge over the Alcovy River, and then Social Circle itself, which has a very long passing track, historic train station (now a CSX Dispatch post), a plastics processing plant, and another GWRR interchange track. Now, all that being said, I've been playing around with Atlas Right Track 5.0 lately, and I've found that it's going to be nearly impossible to include everything in proportions that would be reasonable and without overcrowding. Could somebody give me an idea of a starting point on how to decide what stays, what goes, and if there is a better way to design a layout between three small cities other than a point to point around the wall(with hidden looping mainline and staging tracks). Minimum mainline radius can be 22", minimum yard/siding/branch radius 18". Road traffic typically has 6 axle diesels, and all the local switching is done by 4 axle Geeps. Anybody with prototype modelling experience, please help! :-D Thanks Jeremy
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