Southern Pacific Switching Layout

[Green_Elite_Cab]

Not necessarily. if the industrial park is out by itself on terminal end of a branch, there probably won't be.

I was thinking an industrial park off of the mainline, I don't think the local would head back to the yard after every industrial park they switch

Yes, but what i'm saying is that many industrial parks (at least in my expirience) really are just all by themselves on some branches.

That is certainly an idea to get a greater variety of rolling stock, but you only have a limited amount of space, and so it is justifiable to assume your industrial park is all that is left of the customers on a particular line if that means giving you more space to operate.

Also, many industrial parks are "off to the side", if that makes sense. The main track rarely snakes through the park itself. if its some god forsaken branch out some where (like the Pemberton industrial track discussed earlier), then other cars for other places are simply left behind on the main branch while the locomotives bring the cars they need to the industrial park.

Next, a curved turnout goes to the Intermodal Container facility (though it just occurred to me that you may have meant a box factory.... whatever).

Inland Container: http://www.the-gauge.net/forum/viewtopic...=24&t=3921

Ah, i figured that might have been the case. Well, there is plenty of space in that spot for that. It looks like it should take more than just a single track, but thats my opinion. You probably have enough space to add that extra track for storage in there somewhere.