Brilliant

I spent some time in the train room last night with the last plan from Bruce and it's just brilliant. There are 2 continuous loops with the hidden track so tracks can run during an open house, or background while I show new operators the routes.Plenty of yard tracks in both the East and West yards, with the mainline and runaround track right through the center - very prototypical. There are 3 separate towns for switching - Irwin, Herminie and East McKeesport (from left to right) and the 2 track hidden staging on the left allows 1 east and 1 west bound offline trains to come onto the layout and later Irwin build trains can head out to those hidden tracks.

Today, I am mounting a couple of the modules to the wall and test placing some switches. With some work I may have most of the benchwork and sub roadbed in by the end of the year ... maybe even some of the mainline down?

Now it's getting exciting!