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Please provide some layout advice
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bcauldwell <br /> <br />Do you plan to have a facility for the intermodal? Like a crane or a piggypacker type forklift? You will want to make allowance for that. I bought a Kalmbach book called Intermodal Equipment and Operations that was a great book, it actually has 2 how to's on building a intermodal yard, the other books I found useful are Track Planning for Realistic Operations, Freight Yards all from Kalmbach. Those seem to fall in close to what you are designing. I like your idea of a mainline and intermodal idea. Also when designing, I would think about how you plan to run the layout, if you want others you will want to plan in the capability for more then 1 operator, I didn't as I use DC and it's a dual MRC throttle, not freindly for 2 people. Also if you are going to use car cards or a car forwarding or switch list to make operations a little more interesting. I am using a car card system, and find it makes it more interesting, in fact I feel lost when don't use the cards.
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