Southern Pacific Switching Layout

[Justinmiller171]

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.

Ah, that makes sense now.