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The Passing track should be as long as most of your trains (you can do a saw-by now and then to be interesting, but too often and it will probably be annoying, from what I read). If we figure 60 foot cars (kind of modern era average, I'd guess) a twenty car train is around 8 feet long, so you would probably get a couple of passing tracks in. In Track Planning for Realistic Operation John Armstrong points out that for a small layout (and I think you are getting at the upper end of that) a double track main actually works better than single, because there isn't enough room for the passing tracks for single track. By the way, if you are designing, you need that book. <br />
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