02-26-2009, 10:46 PM
Loren, if I understand your last post correctly, your wife wants the island layout to stay in the house, correct? You are building the new layout in a room in the garage, right? I would rejoice, it sounds like your wife has more than a passing interest in your hobby. I think I would start with a "clean sheet of paper" for the island. You can put your interchange track at the bottom of the island, or just put a yard at the end of the island to function as the point at which your mainline railroad drops off loads for the branch and picks up loads from the branch. I really think you should include a wye at the point where the island joins the "L". You may be afraid of wiring a wye, but If you don't put a wye in there, you may unintentionally create hidden reversing section that will really be difficult to find and fix.