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[Brakie]

Cops all over Ohio will be grateful to you Brakie. Earlier on the thread, someone mentioned that they hated putting more than one industry on one spur. According to Lance Mindheim (and I am a big fan of his work), this is how a railroad would prefer to do it since that's less turnout that they have to install.As a railroader, how accurate is that assessment.

Mike,Here's the thing..The rail served industry owns their siding not the railroad and in that light most industries would renege on sharing their track with another industry simply because while the other industry is being switch you will be paying your forklift operator or freight handlers to stand around waiting on the local crew to switch out cars for the other industry and that can take up to 30 minutes or longer plus the require time for respotting your car(s)...Try explaining why you have lost production man hours to the bean counters and upper management.

Also some folks may be confused since one industry may have several buildings on one siding and they may appear to be 2 or more industries.

Now here's why the railroads don't own the industrial track-maintenance cost and liability and the little known secret of embargoing a industry track for safety reasons and thus forcing the industry to fix the track or use intermodal.This leads to money saved by not having to switch that industry and the removal of a switch is saving maintenance costs.

I am also a big fan of Lance since he has done more for the advancement of modern design switching layouts then any magazine.