06-07-2012, 09:57 AM
I'm late to this "party," but I would think that how much "time killing" you do is dependent on how big your layout is. Since the title here is "Micro Layout Ops" we are talking about operations on a micro layout. If you don't do some prototypical type "time killing" on a micro layout, you have finished the operations completely in 10 minutes, now what do you do? If you are operating on Gary S layout in Texas, you probably don't need as much time killing because that layout is huge, especially for an ISL. For those of us with space restrictions limiting how much railroad we can model, time killing can provide more "bang for the buck" when we operate.