Right now I have an eight track, double ended staging yard connected to a 2 track town by a reverse loop. This is duplicated right above it on the upper level.
A while back I decided to take the staging yard and straighten it out into a stand up crawl space and turn the two towns into larger towns with industry. This will enable me to narrow the benchwork by about six inches.
The staging will have more tracks to allow me to have more trains and the ability to stage special trains. The track will be longer which will help when trains sometimes are longer than planned.
I will be able to build these before ever connecting to the existing layout, so operations should not be affected.
This will add about 30 more feet of mainline to both ends of the layout. There will be roughly 7 new industries added to the existing towns. Of course, this is only a guess at this time.
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11 years ago
You mentioned this the last time we were there. Glad to see it is coming along.
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Still way early in the planning stage, but it should happen if something doesn't derail it.
ReplyDeleteExpansion is always good! :-)
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