Don's vision for Elsewhere

The yard in Wellington will be made larger and will be the main yard on the layout. The front 2 tracks in Elsewhere will be realigned into the turntable and be used to run around incoming trains. The back 3 tracks will be cut in half with a new turnout ladder to the second half. This will give us 2 yards with 3 tracks, each holding about 7 cars. How it will operate. You arrive at Elsewhere with x number of cars. Run around your train and pickup a new made up train from 1 of the six yard tracks. You then hook your new train to the 1 you arrived with and put it into the track you just emptied, uncouple it, leaving with your new train and the caboose you had on the other train. The old train will have new cards added to it. This will require sorting through the current days deck for suitable cards. Don't worry if some cars are without cards or there are not enough cars of each type to meet the card requirements. The cards will be put in a slot with a track number, and is ready for its next run. New departures will be taken in order from this slot. What is the result. There will be no need for a caboose track. There will be no switching of rolling stock in Elsewhere. Train size will vary. The ore train could be held on 1 of the 6 tracks, as could a passenger train.