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It's amazing what can be done when you move the junk out of the way:I'm debating about another brace in the middle there. It's not needed structurally, but the way it is now looks like a missing tooth....
No, no problems anticipated there. That's just an industrial lead into the refinery pick-up/drop-off tracks. Concern is the center switch at the north end of the crossover maze....
At the moment I'm 80/20 in favor of reliable operation and will keep the junction on the same plane as the refinery. But that may change after sleeping on it.
Agreed. In fact, last night I drafted a curve realignment of one of the oldest sections of the layout because a transition turned out to be too abrupt and certain combinations of long and short cars with MTL True Scale Couplers were lifting the short car off the rails. Fixing it is high priority.Anyway, to the curve and junction in question, I went with @jagged ben 's advice and moved the crossover maze a few inches south. That should take care of the major concern.
60' SD24 and 27' ore jenny is the current issue - it's just this one location on the railroad, and at the moment I'm getting around it with a 40' idler car. I am, however, concerned with future ops with 85' DDs and the ore cars (with no idler), which is how they were run in my modeling era.
Latest, with unmodified long-shanks.
85' DDs and the ore cars (with no idler), which is how they were run in my modeling era.