Currently, the upper staging yard is stub ended. This matches the original plan I had drawn up.
After operating with it for a bit and also spending some time at the convention with a gent from the LDSig during one of their 'ask the expert' sessions, I have begun to rethink it.
Operationally, it is a sticking point and requires another operator to make sure that trains can enter and leave. It is also a bit shorter than the lower yard, which is an additional complicating factor.
The major reason that I had not had it follow the same footprint of the lower level was the fact that I did not want to impact sight lines onto the lower level too much; as you can't effectively offset the higher deck when you have to fit in a turnback curve. In tangent sections, you can eliminate a track or two and space it back, but a 30" radius curve is a 30" radius curve.
After a fair amount of measuring this past weekend and some other tests, I am going to build out the upper staging yard to be part of a reverse loop for tracks 6 and 7, with possibly 4 and 5 included while extending the stub ended 1,2 and 3 tracks.
This will also let me simulate traffic coming to and from the ex-C&O branch that Buckingham currently runs, so I'm counting it as win. Watch this space for additional information as sawdust flys.
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