Thoughts Wanted: layout staging-interchange yard

[Gary S]

Thinking ahead a little bit, I can't help but wonder how deep the layout will be to the wall, what kind of radii you will be using? If you are going with 2' deep, that will give you 6' aisles? Probably a bit more then eh?

The shelving will be mostly 18" to 24" wide, mostly 24". Now, at the 180 degree turn at the center wall, the shelves will be about 30" wide so that would be 30" + 30" + 4.5" of wall thickness for a total of 64.5". I can use a fairly large radius curve there, probably around 27".

Will it indeed be quite linear as you've depicted, or will it randomly freeform in and out around various industries and scenic features with access panels towards the back? Will you have any change in grade or are you going to try and keep that to a minimum?

No grade changes as it is mostly switching industries, and I don't want cars rolling around by themselves. The shelving itself will be linear unless y'all can give me some ideas on gradual curving of the fascia board. The track probably won't be absolutely parallel to the fascia for the entire run... alot of the "mainline" will be parallel to the fascia, but some of it won't.

I'm not a big fan of the point to point layouts as I like to sit back and watch 'em run... BUT it would seem logical to have one yard on each side of the doorway for maximum seperation.

The removable bridge will be there for continuous run, which honestly, I can envision myself doing alot of that.

EDIT: I got to thinking about this later this morning and I seem to remember you talking about how you couldn't wait to get the layout moved in. Sooo, with that said, how much of the layout that will go into this building is already built?

Here is the room showing the existing stuff in red. Now, the yard on the left is subject to modification or deletion in its entirety.