James,
you ought to get a book on how to get started in the hobby. Kalmbach, our host, has a book on sale - take a look here:
Getting Started in Model Railroading
$ 11 well spent!
Not a bad idea, James! The questions you are asking have been asked many times before in this forum and I can imagine that the “oldtimers” get a little weary of answering the same set of questions, again and again.
If you don´t like “H2” books, there are a number of how-to videos available in the Web.
A good start is the video series on “The World´s Greatest Hobby”
Enjoy!
i would make the second station track come off the first one, not independently off the main. And rather than the double crossover, if you put the out to inner connection to the bottom left and the inner to out up where you have the doube crossover, it’s more flexible.
–Randy
Since I finished my cork road bed installation. I’ll tell you what I did.
First: Connect all the track together to your desire plan.
Second: Lay the track into the board, if you hasn’t already put the pieces together on top of it.
Third: Outline the track plan with a pen following the plastic ballast. If it’s sectional track. Make dotted lines between the ties.
Fourth: Glue down the cork roadbed. Make sure you have more than 40 T pins.
I hope this helps.