Freelance 2019-2

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First track layout.
A spur runs through an industry area serving four industries south of the tracks. Three eastward and one westward. The actual placement of that four tracks and one or two possible more switches serving industries with double tracks will be done when the buildings are planned..
A parallel spur with an intermediate connection serves either one or two low profile industries (team track etc.) north of the spur or may be used as a temporary staging track (or a run around when no real railroaders hating the time delay of run arounds are present ;-) ). In any case it is no siding under dispatchers control.

An important design point is the open space behind the tracks permitting background buildings with a remarkable depth of 4" - 8". I did it first time on Freelance 2018-1 and love it. Especially when standing in front of the layout and looking on the roofs.

I dropped the east-west roads from my previous layouts. There may be two or three north - south streets separating the industries..





ps. The layout had a complete shutdown from Saturday afternoon until Tuesday evening only!