Are layouts designed with too few passing sidings?

[joe323]

A passing siding. Let me look out my window. Yes, there there is one in Taylor, ND, it is over two miles long. And yes, yes, there is another one at Antelope, more than a mile long. Gee! they are only 10 miles apart.

So on a well run, busy line, 3/10ths of it is passing siding. That is a lot of siding to model, even with nice compression.

LION has no passing sidings on the layout of him, and he wishes he had them. Even so the route of the LION has a four track mane line. But it would be nice to have some pockets to put trains into when not in service, and ot park the money train or the trash train so that revenue trains can keep their time.

Oh Well…

ROAR

Lion I thought you parked your not in service trains in Coney Island under the Belt Parkway.

[wp8thsub]

The one that stands out to me in my observations is that no one (and I mean NO ONE) seems to devote any space to the randomly placed set-out tracks for bad ordering equipment.

I have five passing sidings on my layout, two of which have additional company tracks for set outs.