03-04-2011, 07:09 AM
Actually the way you really want to work this is not to have balloon loop staging on each end. Doesn't fit the traffic patterns. What you really want is huge loops. You didn't specifiy an era, that makes a difference.
At Reading you basically have 5 routes out:
To the NW on the Main Line to St Clair
To the NE on the East Penn branch
To the SE on the Main Line to Phillie
To the SE on the Belt Line to Phillie
To the SW on the Lebanon Valley Branch
If you are doing steam era, the BIG traffic will be from St Clair to the Phillie Main and East Penn, if you are doing diesel era the big traffic will be from the Lebanon Valley to the Phillie Main and East Penn. The Belt Line runs mostly eastward, the Main Line from Phillie mostly westward.
At Reading you basically have 5 routes out:
To the NW on the Main Line to St Clair
To the NE on the East Penn branch
To the SE on the Main Line to Phillie
To the SE on the Belt Line to Phillie
To the SW on the Lebanon Valley Branch
If you are doing steam era, the BIG traffic will be from St Clair to the Phillie Main and East Penn, if you are doing diesel era the big traffic will be from the Lebanon Valley to the Phillie Main and East Penn. The Belt Line runs mostly eastward, the Main Line from Phillie mostly westward.