Multi-era switching layout - Crestwood Industrial Park

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I don't want to derail this thread too much, but does anyone have any idea how much of that book's content is applicable to the late steam era? I'm sure some is, but I don't know if its 25% or 75%.

Almost certainly 75%. Just ignore the phrase "three step" and it's more an issue of what else would apply in the days before things like defect detectors and portable radios.

[645diesel]

Here is the ZTS from 1984 for this area and kind of what I was thinking for a layout that gets the Industrial Park, Forest Wheeler, and model staging like the rundown Penobscott yard. Switch the industrial from inside the layout and Forest Wheeler from the aisle to the bookcase with a liftout to enter the layout.

I've started doing it up in XTrackCad,

Phil

Thanks Phil,

anything cool to share?  i'm building a small switching puzzle based layout to get some practice