Placing Rail Served Industries On Layout Edge

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Leaning over scenery isnt as bad as you might think. This is my Miami layout its 20" deep and 5' long, it has a road along the front then several industries, 1 rail served and 2 not, but I lean over them very easily and I use sergent couplers.

Dave;

Some experimenting that I've done with having rail served structures at the front of the layout has shown me that it's really no problem as far as operation, unless it bothers you that you can't see the rail cars behind the structure. That's strictly a display issue as far as I'm concerned. I have always manually uncoupled the Kadee couplers and that wasn't any problem either. Just a matter of finding the right structure and height so that I could easily look over the structure to uncouple the cars.

It can certainly make a difference in layout planning and in the case of industrial spurs, it can really add to the look and feel of such a location. I may reconsider having one or more such industries on my own ISL.

By the way... Great looking layout!