RTR12,
Thank you for joining in, no problem taking a tangent. I wish we had RFD channel too! You have to buy the Deluxe package to get it here. One would think that a cable company whose headquarters is located in Butler, still a rural community would offer it. But since I work for the telecom company I learned that the providers are offered the packages from the producers, and special interest channels are stuck on the deluxe packages!
Dave,
Both plans are very good. The last one gives a longer run, and the extra spurs are nice on them. I printed them all out on paper; yes I break the 'print only when you have to' rule at work; but I spent most of my career with paper, so I print when I have to; which is more than the younger guys. 
I finished testing my MTH engines. All passed pulling 5 2-bay hoppers and a caboose up the 6% grade, that is a 2-8-0, 0-8-0, 4-4-0, F3, RS1, and my only 'modern' engine a Buffalo and Pittsburgh GP38-2. It was the best puller of them all. The only reason I have it is, I live one mile form the B&P and a fellow was selling it at a nice price. I called it quits for tonight. I will test the Lionel engines another evening. They are F3, F7, 0-4-0, and a Virginian Rectifier. Yes I know. I think the VGN Rectifier is cool, and they used them on their mountain division, so it works for me. 
