Operations/shunting article in July MR?

[RobertInOntario]

OK, here is an overview shot of my layout.

It is only approx. 5.5 ft. long by 3 ft. wide!

Mmm - a nice looking (and compact) layout, but maybe not your typical "switching industries" type of layout.

You do have a passenger station and a small yard. But do you have any rail served industries on that layout? Somewhere where you would want to set out or pick up cars to be loaded or unloaded?

Stein, just curious

Thanks, Stein. Well, only the front half to 2/3's of the layout is finished so I could try to create & add some industries at the small yard. Otherwise, I admit that the layout mainly works as a passenger layout but I do occasionally run freight trains through. I was thinking that maybe I could start a freight train out from the "fiddle yard" and deliver various cars to the different sidings in the middle of the layout.

I also have a small shelf switching layout but that's a side project that I occasionally work on. I was thinking of re-laying its track. It's bascially an "Inglenook" shunting layout -- maybe I could use apply these shunting guidelines to that?

Rob