I don’t know about U.S. railroad practices but in Canada the Canadian Pacific has sections where left hand running is practiced to give the right hand sitting engineer maximum visibility on difficult winding and walled stretches.
Also, during the days of steam in the UK some railways had right hand running and left hand sitting engineers for the same reason.
Don’t know what the case is today. I’m sure other sharp shooters will leap in with details or corrections.
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Thank you all for the input. I feel less stupid now. Being fairly new to the layout design part of the hooby(I was a strictly oval around the Christmas tree kind of guy) I thought there was something I was missing.
To leighant I must say you did answer my question and I apologize for not specifying that I am not(yet?) much into prototypical running. Need to get the just running down first. As for the CSX line you refer to, It is a coal fired power plant at Newburg, and if you look again there is a spur that runs from Brandywine east to a second coal plant. There is also the rare general frieght train that one day I will figue out.
For any and all who like you can go to this web site (that I don’t run and know little about who does) that will map the region out for you.
http://www.pacerfarm.org/wta.htm
I figure by the end of next year I will be railfanning the Herbert secondary on a weekly basis…lol … and my layout will have an at least 15 car CSX coal train.
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Wife will have a fit if I do another layout inside of a year. [sigh]
Crandell, Just walk away mumbling under your breath “I could be hanging out in some bar and chasing the ladies.”