Spur Traffic

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Hi to all,

Wife and I have retired and down sized into a smaller home. I no longer have the ability to have a large layout as I’ve had in the past. So I’m building a first time18" x13’ switching layout in the spare bedroom, this allows me to keep the bedroom a bedroom so when the grand kids come over they have a bed to sleep in. My question is with the layout only being 18’ wide and two levels (like the Gum Stump and Snowshoe which its loosely based on) It limits how manyspurs I can have so what would be a realistic number of industries per spur? I’m wanting to put three on one spur which is quite long, the rest would have only one. Is that fesabile?

Only my second post so have mercy.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

PVRich

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Yes it is. Not only can you have multiple industries, but you can have one industry with multiple spots that get different deliveries / pickups.

Good luck

Paul

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Thanks for the reply, I do have two industries with two spurs for the front and back of the buildings and one with two spots. I just was not sure as to how the sites would be handled if the pickup or drop off was the back industry and the two in front had cars spotted on them, guess they just work it out with the other two industries. This will add a differnt scenerio to my switching chores. Didn’t have that problem on my larger layout.

PvRich