11-01-2009, 12:58 PM
eightyeightfan1 Wrote:Sidings with no industry next to it could also be "imagined". Maybe an interchange for an industry thats "off the layout", such as a coal mine(empties in/loads out), or a company that may be situated "a couple of miles away from the main line"
Reminds me - someone (Tony Koester?) once described a pretty elaborate variant of that once - he had a non-modeled industry (maybe a paper plant) "in the aisle" that had a several tracks and spots (also not modeled on the actual layout).
You were supposed to leave a a cut of cars for this industry on a track that ran out to the edge of the layout. The cut of cars had to be sorted into a specific order ("to make it easier for the plant switcher"), according to which track inside the industry the car was for. A diagram of the imaginary industry and switching instructions for the imaginary plant were provided for the crew that was supposed to leave the cut of cars.
Grin,
Stein