Southern Pacific Switching Layout

[Justinmiller171]

Justin,
Please don't take this as criticism, but according to your plan, it appears that you plan to run your railroad with a 100% capacity on your sidings. The rule of thumb is to use 50% capacity for your sidings so you have room to switch.

I will probably operate with the spurs about 75% full, I have the interchange and the storage track to act as drill tracks, Jack Hill operates with his spurs mostly full and he doesn't have a problem.

If you want more info on how I plan to operate the layout please this page:http://oscalewcor.blogspot.com/2010/02/t...tions.html

You lost me on your previous post. Why do you want to build a switching layout if you don't want to switch? I'm just lost, that's all.

I want to switch, but I don't want to just have busy industries, Consolidated Container has plenty of switching by itself, the other two industries are there for variety.