Bringing the Royal Gorge & Southern to life

[Sarge]

Thanks for you comments guys. This is my first time, so I take all of your suggestions into consideration

Ok, I am not using the stub, wye, yard siding or whatever you want to call it. For the most part this will be just a mainline through the mountains with several tunnels and bridges. In the portion of the stub portion of the L where the wye was I will probably put a coal mine/rock quarry or other industry there. I am thinking of running a track off of the back side of this area that will run through the area at the far end of the room, which could have another industry and a staging area. The area I am talking about here, is actually a bar that the layout buts up against. I am also using this space for my work bench, so that will work perfect for me.

It is not my intention to make this into a switching layout, but one that I can run trains on with my son. I can use the club layout for intense op sessions when we get that done I do have a vision in my head as to how I want to do the scenery, I am just not good at describing it.

Interestingly, I read an article at some point about how the designer intended this to be operated a a single mainline operation, with the areas between the crossovers used as passing sidings.