... At the moment the inner road is 2/5ths the length of the middle road. It is usually better to have equal length roads, unless you intend to run specific trains from specific roads. On a straight fiddle yard you can easily do this by having all the turnouts on road 1 at the entrance end and be having all the turnouts on the last road at the exit end. Another way of doing it is to have the turnouts so that the entrance to each yard is through the same number of turnouts: dxf_re_import.png (Richard's attached DXF file re-imported into Templot. Added by Martin.) For your curved yard it's not so easy but a start can be made by putting all the turnouts in what is currently the longest road. Regards Richard Spratt Attachment: attach_125_228_Fiddle_yard_entranc e.dxf 409 posted: 10 Nov 2007 18:59 from: Gordon S Hi Richard, thanks for your comments. There is a couple of reasons why the storage roads are laid out as they are. The first being the fact that there is a bullustraded staircase ...