Model Structures posted:Deuce:
It's not big - about 14 x 18
I will have two main lines if I want to watch trains go round and round but most of the layout is switching especially the left side which is part of John Allen's famous time-saver switching game.
I am still struggling with 'pick it here and drop it off there'. I have a lot of pick up here but not many drop it there.
My logic for design is "how is the commodity handled" or how is the freight handled? sources/suppliers to processors/distributors - to end user/retailers.
Then, pick it here and drop it there happens at each stop with fulls and empties.
Now, it would seem to depend of what kind of buildings that you have and where you place them.
I would view the dual mains as a main and a local that you can foul while picking here and dropping there.
The RR's functions (yard tracks and spurs, passing sidings) can be both.
