I'm in the process of redoing my layout, and I've built a little switching extension on to it. Attached is the plan as its currently laid out. The horizontal section on the bottom is the switch layout itself, its about 2x13, give or take. Between the purple lines is a dropout section so I can walk through to the rest of the layout, and the red arrow is my question. At the moment, I threw in this extra run around. Part of it was just based on coming up with 2 ways to connect the switching lead to the mainline (the parallel tracks), and just leaving it there to think about it. Question is, should I leave it as a runaround? Or will this end up serving next to no purpose? There isnt a place on the table surface there to add a siding of meaningful length if I leave the runaround in place. Might this arrangement serve a functional purpose? Or am I just wasting a switch?
Thanks.
