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The Falls Valley Railroad has been hammering out final plans for a future yard. Since I dont YET have a scanned image of that track arrangement I will try my best to describe arrangement and how I think best to use it.Mainline goes into yard limits. One track will be the arrival/depart track off the main.The Yard switcher's drill track will have connection direct to the A/D track.The drill track will connect a ladder for 5 storage tracks. The store tracks are stub-ended.There will be a run-around that bypasses the ladder along it's diagonal length with the hope that the road engine can escape from it's train and proceed to the engine area to be serviced.Counting from the operator's point of view:Edge of table: Mainline.A/D Track with Drill track.Track One: YellowTrack Two: BlueTrack Three: GreenTrack Four: BlackTrack Five: Company use and engine area access as well as run around lead track.I see a color system where for example Yellow track. This track will recieve any trains considered to be "Throughs- or Bridge Traffic" that does not do anything on "My system" but passes through.This track also represents a train that will leave FVRR for the "Outside world" at staging. So once this track fills up with outbounds I can call an engine and get this train sent to staging.Another example: Track Green This presents all of the cars that are specifically marked to go to be loaded or empty at the town of Falls Valley. The yard switcher can sort FV cars to and from that track.Each of the other tracks with a color code represents a town on my line. Track 5 is special. It gets to be kept open for a variety of useful reasons.My goal is to orginate and ternimate locals to and from each of the 3 towns and to send extra trains to interchange or staging by midnight each working day. I also plan to recieve manifests that are blocked from either Philadepha, Baltimore and Hagerstown and sort them according to two-cycle and 4 cycle waybills as needed.This little yard should keep me busy for quite some time if I got it right. What do you think? Too simple? Too complicated? Too much in too little?
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