@DoubleDAZ - THANKS SO MUCH for the re-design work. This looks great, very usable and closer to prototypical switching than just storing trains in my less-than-ideal space. My experience as a kid and younger man with my father, uncle, and grandfather didn't include a real switching operation since they were mainly Christmas-time loopers. I really wanted the ability to have someone disassembling and assembling trains in the yard while someone else runs the others around the mainlines despite the limited space and the use of O27 tubular track with only 27" and 42" switches. You whipped that out way better than I could've imagined!
I like the suggestion for additional engine storage with a switch to the left of the purple curve. Definitely going to do that.
I only have one question/concern. If an engine and train pull in from the left on the red track past the red and blue switches, I see how it escapes onto the blue track, but then that engine seems to be stuck pointing to the right (from the yard perspective). It would use the inner mainline to pick up trains from the right on the purple track, but could never pick up from the left.
If I add two right-hand switches where I added red ovals below, I could pull a decoupled engine out from the right on the purple track, go around on the inner mainline, go through these two switches onto the other side of the inner mainline, and the back into the yard on the left. Not prototypical and certainly fouls up the inner mainline for a spell, but enables me to turn an engine around. Make sense?
BTW, I cannot open the RRT file you updated and attached but get an error message Unknown File Type...Cannot Read even though it's a .RRT file. I'm running V
4.02 which I got about 10 years ago, so I'm guessing you have a newer version. Any chance you can save it as a version 4.02 file? If not, I guess my wife will have to give me a new version of RR Track for Christmas.
Thanks again. Happy Thanksgiving!
