I have a basic bench work design, and a "main line" track plan for my "new" basement space. It's quite a bit bigger, and there can almost be some real train action if the switching crew has to go from the yard to the far flung industries on the opposite (east) end of the layout.
One concern so far is staging space. I'm using some difficult to get to wall space on the opposit side of the room as a staging yard that could be "on camera". The link between the two will be the car floats. Its kind of a short space though, so I had to cram a little to get suitable room for cars, and a switching lead long enough to work the yard. Even as it is with curved turnouts and some weird arranging, I'm not sure it'll be enough space, and I know I'll want the switch lead to be longer in the end. I'm considering doing some sort of hinged thing that comes down to extend the switch lead in front of a door, but that may be beyond the limits of my modeling to start. We'll see.
Now my problem is that my creativity seems to have fled. I'm got lots of space for industries but no idea what to put in them. There's a fair amount of wall space for backdrop industries as well as a good number of places for full fleged modeling. I have my industry list from verion 1 of the PHI, but I'm just not sure where to put them all. I'm kinda afraid I'm gonna end up with a bunch of straight sidings which is fine for generating trafic, but I do want it to be somewhat interesting. I've already had to abandon on cute piece of tight trackwork I liked. I just don't think I'm gonna find a place for it. I'll keep working on it, and hope my creativity returns. I really don't just wana slap industries down just to generate car loads, I'd like to have it make some kind of sense. It's just a matter of rationalizing it in my head I guess. My best bet is probably to place all the old industries I had thought up for the last version of this, and see where that leaves me.
I'll probably take a day or two away from the planning software just to think a little. Maybe re-fire the creative juices.
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