Yard_Duty
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Well, as my layout room comes ever closer to completeness, I've been doing some SERIOUS research in layout building and soul searching as to what exactly I want out of my railroad. I love big-time AC traction mountain railroading. But, I also love switching local industry with a purpose. (you know, a chip mill on one end, and maybe a plywood plant on the other. Or a coal mine and a power plant. you get the picture.) So after much reading and searching through track plans, I decided to try to free-hand one. Below is what I came up with. The room is 12X18. The plan is on a 1 foot grid. The lines in red are at 48 inches above the floor, with the blue being at 36. to simulate a branch line to a lower lying area. The top right corner is probably an interchange. (CSX w/ NS) Now the blue line is where I need some help. I want a few industries as I mentioned above. Pay no attention to how I have it at the end there, as I'm open to suggestions here. Is that downgrade do-able with that lenght of run? One more thing about the room. It's an upstairs room with knee walls. I have an illustration below as well.
