>>1305456There's enough room to also set down some locomotives if you want, although it does get in the way of anyone wanting to drop freight cars. If we want to have a train sitting out for people to see when it's not being run, it usually gets parked in this area somewhere.
It's also one of our most complicated areas. The tracks are laid out around the town in a wye, which also serves as part of a return loop for any trains working the area to get back to the branch line. If you're crazy like me you use the return loop to flip a westbound train eastbound, cuz there is nowhere else to do so without it being a huge pain in the butt.
MY C&NW heritage is front and center, but if you look in the back, the tanker car is sitting on the 'team track', and the line next to it is considered the chemical industry. The tracks at the far right are part of the wye I described. Trains that run through that ravine follow Coon Creek to join the eastbound main.
