Input on a "Temporary" Shelf Track Plan

[Brakie]

Mmm - looks a little bit on the track heavy side. I guess it really depends on what you are trying to model on your temporary layout.

How about something with fewer turnouts and more scenery? Here is e.g. a quick sketch of a layout somewhat inspired by Bill Dixon's Tymesaver on Carl Arendt's Micro Layouts site (in scrapbook 53: http://www.carendt.us/scrapbook/page53/index.html):



In the drawing above, green cars are inbound cars, orange cars are cars to be picked up, blue cars are cars to be left where they are or re-spotted after switching. Engine is portrayed by a GP40-2 in the drawing - I don't have any steam engines in my program car library.

Might give you some more ideas about what kind of things you want on your layout (and what kind of things you don't want on your layout, too)

Smile,
Stein

Question..Why would you want to block the only run around track?

Think the owners of that warehouse is going to be happy every time you move their cars?

I think they would have some words for your freight agent along this line..

Sorry,but due to the constant moving of our cars we decided we will ship and recieve by truck.