05-09-2014, 08:18 AM
jonte Wrote:Hope you don't mind my saying so.Not at all, I enjoy constructive criticism. However Bushwick Terminal has a pretty limited runaround to begin with, it has a grade crossing in between the switches which cuts back it's car capacity and if I had to take a guess I'd say they could only runaround 7 cars tops. I always see discussions referring to runarounds having to be 15 feet to be prototypical but BT is a perfect example of one only being about 400-500 feet long. When I operate the layout not every industry needs to be switched all at the same time either, so I can switch 2 maybe 3 customers in 1 session and have room to sort cars around and still be able to use the runaround. Also I'm not limited to 8 feet for a layout, In fact the wall that this will be up against is probably 20 feet long, I'm trying to limit myself and not let the layout take over my apartment, if I need to add a foot I might consider it but not much longer than that.
jonte