My new basement, or, how to fill it

[rrinker]

Hmm, what benefit would there be to moving the staging from otherwise unusable space into prime railroad space?

If I push the peninsula up more to make more space along the bottom for the yard, I more or less would have to eliminate the entire extra bit there as the aisle width would compress a whole lot. I did consider a much simpler run like that, but it really shortens the mainline run. Right now it's somewhere around 2.8 scale miles (just the lower deck main) so doubling it gets me a fairly decent run end to end.

Train lengths are 10-12 40' cars, any longer and I think it would be too cramped, plus I'd be having trains spill over between stations. Not to mention the siding lengths and all that good stuff. If I want to run long trains I guess I can always go to one of the club modular displays, I have a 28 car train I run there, and once in a while we empty the coal yard and run 100+ coal hoppers, though even on a layout 140+ feet long, that is a bit much.

--Randy