03-25-2014, 12:00 PM
Well, it's your layout -- but I'm curious when you say " A track from the hatch to the rear corner often conflicts with an open hatch (I did open the hatch ones with an engines in operation". It seems to me that you have exactly the same problem if you do something with the corner or if you don't, since you say you already ran a loco through the gap. Why not set up an electrical interlock no matter what you do, if you've already had the problem? Then you would in fact get a little more use out of the space without crowding in tracks.