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Thanks Dave and Brakie for clarifying that. Now I think it’s all clear to me. Interesting thing about the run around move Brakie, it’s a valid point. /Mattias

Ok, interesting. If it's more complicated moves, like if you have to do a run around after you pic up the car or if you're picking up cars from different tracks at an industryplant. Is it then more efficent to do all the connecting when the cars are coupled to the train, or is it still either...

When picking up a car or two out on the road, do you connect the air hoses when the car(s) couple to the trian, or do they have to have air connected from the time when the engine couple to the car(s) at the industry? /Mattias

I must say that I like the plan with the one runaround track in the upper left corner better. Unless you put in a very short runaround in the lower right corner which might not be of much use, you get a lot of dubbel tracking, and in my oppinion the plan gets very cramped. I agree with railohio...

I think the general layout looks fine. Are you planning to ad any more spurs? They could be interesting scenic features and you’d have the possibility to do some switching. A couple of small suggestions about the track plan, I’d change the right hand turnout leading in to the siding on the...

Thanks for the input guys. That surely would ad some interest to operation. About the crossover, it has to do with SP bringing in empties for the chemical plant and picking up outgoing cars. After picking up loaded cars from throughout the chemical plant the plant switcher will put them on...

Thanks Russ. Then it’s as I begun to suspect. That it would be too much of a disturbance for the chemical plant’s switch crew to coordinate with SP for the use of their track, and that they need their own runaround track. /Mattias

Thanks for the information Kanawha. The chemical plant’s track is connected to the siding, so the plant switcher could use it. On the other hand, that switcher is going to be an all day job with much of its work to be performed next to the siding, sorting cars before spotting them at the...

I’m planning a model railroad with an SP mainline and an industrial railroad serving a chemical plant. For more about the plan: http://www.the-gauge.com/showthread.php?t=25108 What I’m thinking about now is whether the industrial railroad should have its own runaround track, or if it could use...

Thanks for the tip of the webside. Looks like interesting reading, and not just about hazmat. /Mattias

So it’s not an absolute rule (at least in practice), but it’s preferred to put the hazmat a few cars away. I’m wondering if the guys working in house switchers at industries only handling hazmat cars would you use idler cars/empty cars, or if they don’t bother only switching with the hazmat...

I’ve read that if you have hazmat cars in a train, you should put them a few cars away from the engines and the caboose. I’m wondering if the same rule applies when you switch hazmat cars in a yard, or when you’re setting them out or picking them up at an industry? If the rule applies all the...

The layout is drawn with Atlas Right track software, but I won't use their tracks. I'll be using Peco track and turnouts except for the 3-way switch, which is made by Fleischmann. The diverging route of the turnouts I’m going to use has a radius of at least 18 inch. The Peco turnouts have been...

What do you think about this track plan? It’s supposed to represent SP running through the outskirts of a big city in southeast Texas in the 90:ies. The plan is for an N scale layout. The black track is SP and the red track is an industrial railroad for the chemical plant. The...