... playing with XtrackCAD (way before finding Templot) I began with a 4'x8' format, but everywhere I looked I saw 'start small' and I gradually worked my way down to a 1'x5' shunting layout, Asok Yard, to use as a test bed for some of my ideas (mainly around turnout motors and electronics). 3620_112044_500000000.png SO... to see if I had learned anything from all my Templot study, I decided to try to replicate that layout as close as I could. This is the result: 3620_112050_290000000.png I was trying to fit to mostly Peco 1st radius curves and the eagle-eyed may have spotted that I made the crossovers with curviform turnouts (and I am sure that I have committed all sorts of other horrors) but apart from the industry siding which I decided looked better at a jaunty angle, I was pretty pleased with the fit. You may be wondering why am I telling you all of this, Well I HAD to tell SOMEONE, and I don't know anyone else who would even understand what I was ...