Planning the yards for the layout I hope to start building next year, I'd like to build a locomotive terminal big enough to host all my operational postwar lionels (not including the duplicates) on the layout at all times (~60 currently). I plan on having my 2-4-2's run mixed freight and fill yard duties while I look for another postwar switcher, my 2-6-4's on mixed duties, my 4-6-4's on passenger and heavy freight, the 6-8-6's on passenger and heavy freights, and my 0-4-0 on yard duties and work trains. My Alcos (except for 230 which was my first lionel) will be mainly on freight and the NW2's will do freight and yard work, the boxcab will be doing yard work, my GG1 will be mixed duties, the 221 marines and 44 missile will be military train duties, and the vulcans will be mixed duty except for 53 which will do work trains. Trolleys, gang cars, and the cleaning car will be on their obvious duties. I plan to build a service track, roundhouse, diesel shop and back shops to accommodate the rest of the engines while not running. I'll probably make the roundhouse 10-12 stalls and the diesel shops have 4-6 rows, ditto with the back shops.
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