L&N Industrial Rail Spur

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IMHO this is probably one of the best topics on planing a freelance ISL based on real industries and prototypical track plans I ever had the pleasure of following..

Gee thanks Larry! I need a morale boost! I'm still not getting anywhere with the layout at the moment other than to try and do a few things that should have been done months ago. Too eager to run something and skipped a few steps in the process. Of course that eagerness has allowed me to do a lot of testing of some of my plans and most important RUN SOMETHING - so guess that wasn't a bad thing.

A week ago, I was in a real slump about working on the layout, almost to the point of losing interest in it completely. Then a couple of days ago, the bug bit me again and I was all fired up to start building something. However, before I even get started, I think of something else and I'm stuck again!

I think that perhaps I'm putting too much emphasis on the track plan rather than my ultimate goal of realistic operation. After all, an industrial spur is not like trying to model the DRGW in the Rockies, and I've demonstrated to myself that even a simple track plan like what I last posted, provides plenty of prototypical operation. But I keep wondering to myself if I'd be satisfied with something like that.

I keep looking back over the track plans that I have come up with and especially ones that I actually laid out and operated for a while. Most of them look pretty much the same, just with minor variations; so perhaps I've already found the right plan for my available space. Anyway, I'm still playing around some with the track planning software and experimenting on the layout, so maybe it will fall together soon.