Southern Pacific Switching Layout

[steinjr]

Could I make a suggestion? If you make the turnout into Consolidated Container a right hand turnout instead of a left hand turnout, Eagle Foods would be able to fit 4 cars instead of 3 cars. Another result of the turnout change is that the line would look like part of the mainline with Consolidated Container branching off instead of the mainline branching off of Consolidated Container.

I tried that, but even with Stein's plan it still requires a train to go through an S-curve when switching Consolidated Container, Even with a straight section in-between it still doesn't look right to me.

1) If you go curve - car length straight - curve in the opposite direction, it is not an S-curve.
2) But if it looks bad to you, it looks bad to you.

Smile,
Stein