L&N Industrial Rail Spur

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Operated the latest test revision tonight and it took 55 minutes to place and pull 2 cars on each track and with no "time killing" at all, other than just operating at scale speeds. So operationally it's working out okay. In some ways, It is surprising that such a simple looking track arrangement can provide so much operation; although working 3 long tracks, reminds me a lot of switching the distilleries back in the good old days, and that was quite time consuming.

I did adjust the number of car spots at the food distribution facility (5 rather than 6) and the candy plant (3 rather than 4) as it was a better car spot ratio to structure size.

After operating it, I'm wondering if perhaps I should add one more track back on the plan and place the crossdock on a separate track and split the trans-load track at the street crossing, with building products unloading on one side of the street (perhaps in a fenced in area) and covered hoppers being trans-loaded to trucks on the other side. Like this:     Not sure that it would really add much operation wise, but I'm not sure that I like the really long trans-load track as it is on the current test plan. Just seems like adding the other short angled track, fills in the right hand side of the plan a little better.

Still experimenting, so I'll operate it a bit more and see what develops.