L&N Industrial Rail Spur

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Ed, I would just leave the crossdock where you had it on the October 11 plan. or put it between the covered hopper transload and the building products to visually break up a long siding.

For now, I'm just leaving things as they are with the long trans-load track and the crossdock at the beginning of the spur. It's similar to the arrangement of the prototype structure on the EFRR. I still sort of feel like I could add one more track to the plan, but this works out pretty well, especially with my limit of 6 cars inbound/outbound. The extra track may really not be necessary. Plenty of operation as it is, without having to have a track and small one or two car industry in every spot on the bench work.

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However, here's another possible variation of the plan with the one additional track:     Right now, I'm just not sure if this is really necessary, operationally.

Incidentally, which Track Planning software do you use? It looks good and I'm having thoughts about planning a new layout.

Mal;
I'm using the trial version of AnyRail http://www.anyrail.com/. It's easy to use without a long learning curve and has templates for most all major track brands. I especially like how easy it is to work with flex track on this program. Easily curve it as desired, cut it or otherwise adjust the length. It includes a feature that allows you to easily export your plan in JPG, PNG, BMP or GIF format.

The trial version allows you to do anything that you can due with the full version, but limits you to only 50 track items on a drawing. I haven't found that to be a problem with the layouts I've been working on since they aren't basement size empires!

The program sells for $59 USD. One other thing I like is that even though I'm using the trial version, they still update the software on a regular basis.