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John, You would want to turn both the locomotive and tender coupled together.  It would could be a real pain to unhook some tenders from their locomotives, and I have never heard of it done before on the prototype or models.  I think the same would hold for any AB units for similar reasons.  I don't have an AB set out to see how long they are.  Less tracks off the turntable would be good to eliminate the curved ones.  The 4-way switch for the yard saves space, but then you would need a runaround track on each side of the yard.  I have 4% grades on my layout, and they are working alright on my short trains.  I'm sure you would like to run longer trains than I can.  I setup a temporary track and tried it at different grades with each of my engines pulling cars to see what would work.  Remember that it takes a little more pulling power on grades than straightaways.

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