Since creating my 4ft by 2ft diorama I’ve posted about before, I’ve been thinking of making a shelf layout along the back corner of my home office using the first 4ft by 2ft section as a starting point.

I ultimately have a 10ft by 2ft section available, with the last 2ft having the ability to stick out a further 2ft, making an “L” shaped layout.

I want something that is interesting to play with so I’ve been toying with track plans for a switching layout. Off to the left I’ll have my original 4ft by 2ft section which gives me some room for manuevering cars. Then I’ll have a section with some industries. So far I think I’ll have a scrapyard which takes gondola cars, a shipping company that takes boxcars and then one more industry, which may just be a “team track”. I’ll also want to have at least one road with a grade crossing.

I’ve outlined the track plan below using SCARM with the layout being in HO Scale. As someone who has never built a switching layout before, I’d appreciate any advise you might have to make operations more enjoyable.

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