Building the Frisco System 1980 - Construction Project Documentation - HO-Scale Layout

Like your NEW revised track plan.
The TOFC angled track alignment breaks up the parallel monotonous from the rest of the yard.

 

I tend to agree. I did come up with a couple other alternate ideas that reshape the yard. I'm just not sure how practical they are.

 

I worked on wrapping up the more urgent wiring projects on the layout over the weekend. I think I finally have the staging yard working properly with turnout machines and power routing, and I've added enough feeder wires to carry power around to the far side of the layout. With that out of the way, I started putting up the benchwork for 19th St yard today.

While I work on putting up benchwork this week, I've kept looking at potential redesigns for the yard. A general idea I've stuck with for a while is limiting the yard tracks to 12' each so that the cuts of cars would never be too long to fit in the receiving yard over in Rosedale. As I've looked at different designs I've also looked at breaking away from that concept. It does give the yard a more natural look this way.