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WOW..........I am enjoying this thread immensly. RR employee vs rr employee vs rr employee all coming at the same situational topic from a different perspective and Me with a Ringside seat....Man it just doesnt get any better than this :).........Heya Larry!! ;)Thing is guys, we got Just a little over the top on How BEST to use a Model RR Yard. Realistically we should be discussing this from a Model RR Yard standpoint and Model RR operations and the best way I can see doing that would be to distinguish between what as modelers we do (or should do) as regards basic practices, and then Insert what the real rr does and why this practice is either not possible OR not practical in a model yard.Seems to me this approach would be more user freindly for the Non Employee's who really need your particular expertise (and I mean that for all 3 of you Larry, Dave and Nick!!)The thing is ya'll live this and many of the guys here really want to understand HOW to operate their Yards in the model world while at the same time understanding the differences between real and model operations. Afterall, we do have our limitations in the model world space not the least of them.How many of us can model a real Yard with all of its yards within a yard?? So from a Practical standpoint, Model Operations will NEVER be the same ads real life......can we agree this is a given???So using your expertise and the consideration that we can only afford the space for 1 functional operations Yard, How would YOU set up your's (keeping things Generic)for satisfying operation and Why? As a side note:By the way, that Pokegama Yard is quite close to me( I railfan it on occassion) and a nice example of a small yard but it has limitations. If you pan south you will find yet another Larger yard with shops. Pokegama is pretty much used as an ore transfer yard 99% of the time as I recall.For a much larger Classification yard the BNSF (old GN's) Allouez yard is east about 12 miles or so.And almost due north on the other side of the river is the DM&IR's Steelton Yard.Todd
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