Ideas for building a 4 siding track plan

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@Woodson posted:

I'd like to have ideas for building a 4 siding track plan as a part of my new layout.. I would prefer using Ross switches and Ross/Gargrave track.. TIA

What kind of space do you have? Numbered switches would give the best performance (fewer curves), but they are longer and take up lot's of room. What's the yard for? storage, operations?

Here's a plan I've been working on. The yard at the top (green track) is a 042 lead and 054 for the other 2 sidings.

The lower right yard is done with a Ross 3-way

Bob

What kind of space do you have? Numbered switches would give the best performance (fewer curves), but they are longer and take up lot's of room. What's the yard for? storage, operations?

IT would make sense to make my intentions clear, sorry.. I'm working with a 2' x12' space of my new layout. I want to put a main line with a passing siding and 2 or 3 yard tracks to serve as an operational yard.  Perhaps a small industry or a passenger station, that's still to be determined.. Your ideas would be greatly appreciated.. I know I should probably use some sort of  track planning software, but I have trouble visualizing the end product on a piece of paper and I have not had any  success with track planning software.. Not sure if that makes any sense, but it is what it is.. I have track and switches and  cardboard templates for the switch configurations that I don't have.. I have a Ross 4-way that would be nice to use, but it's not imperative.. BTW, Bob, I like your track plan.. It give me lots of  ideas for the rest of the layout!!

Here's a four spur yard I added to my layout. Each spur line is separately electrified.

@Woodson posted:

What kind of space do you have? Numbered switches would give the best performance (fewer curves), but they are longer and take up lot's of room. What's the yard for? storage, operations?

IT would make sense to make my intentions clear, sorry.. I'm working with a 2' x12' space of my new layout. I want to put a main line with a passing siding and 2 or 3 yard tracks to serve as an operational yard.  Perhaps a small industry or a passenger station, that's still to be determined.. Your ideas would be greatly appreciated.. I know I should probably use some sort of  track planning software, but I have trouble visualizing the end product on a piece of paper and I have not had any  success with track planning software.. Not sure if that makes any sense, but it is what it is.. I have track and switches and  cardboard templates for the switch configurations that I don't have.. I have a Ross 4-way that would be nice to use, but it's not imperative.. BTW, Bob, I like your track plan.. It give me lots of  ideas for the rest of the layout!!

I use SCARM. It's not too big a learning curve to get the basics under your belt. The help pages are well done and easy to follow too. Good selection of track manufacturers represented (Ross, GG, Atlas, Lionel). The freeware version has a limit on track sections but for what you want to do it should be fine.

Thanks