@DoubleDAZ posted:John, the direction problem did not arise because you moved the TT or reconfigured the yard, it’s been there all along. IMHO there’s nothing wrong with fouling the inner mainline because you have 2. Here in Phoenix we have a storage yard alongside a mainline that gets fouled all the time by an engine lash up pulling a long string of cars out of the yard then backing up to connect to another string before heading out to California. It’s been a constant irritation at the 59th Ave & Grand Avenue intersection. I used to go through that intersection often and invariably got stopped by trains fouling the mainline there. That’s where the yard ends and goes down to a single mainline heading out of town. I’ll be working on Chuck’s idea to reconfigure the bridge area. I was going to do that some time ago, but didn’t want to mess up the spurs you have there and we were concentrating on the RH/TT area.
Hi Dave, I did realize the direction issue and was hoping to flip things around to jog an idea out of this old noggin. That did not occur... However the access is better for the RH/TT at the right hand end of the layout. So I think something good happened out of luck. As for the fouling of the second mainline - I Hate to design in an irritation so to speak, however everything is a trade off.
As for bridge area, move whatever needs to be moved, spurs, mainlines, Mt Everest (i know you can do it) 
I am saying I do not consider anything final or a must have. And yes the RH/TT took priority for sure.
btw please return to the 12 month calendar on file naming convention. 2020 needs to end! 
