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Ok, thanks -- so the answer is "usually on the right", but like everything else in the prototype there are legitimate exceptions. The reason I asked is because I may have a section of double-track mainline on my new u-shaped layout, which at this point I'm designing as basically a dogbone with the loops stacked on the left side. The top loop won't really be double track, since one leg is climbing the mountain and the other runs along the mountain before dropping back down to ground level further on. But there will be short stretch of double-track (also serving as a reversing track) along the front of the layout going to the lower loop. However, for operation sake it would probably work better to have the trains run on the left track for that short distance. Especially since there'll be a stub yard on the right side of the U that I'm hoping to design so trains can leave in either direction. Of course, I could also reverse things and stack the loops in the right corner, which would solve the wrong-side problem (and maybe some others as well), but I didn't want to be too far off if I did things "backwards".
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