>>9987944>>9987954This is why I went for a mix of both when designing my layout
>"Main Line" is just a pair of loops going around the table>Has a few sidings going off it, including a yard for freight switching and a engine maintenance shed>One switch leads off to the branchline that climbs up the hill, passing two industries before hitting the next town over (With multiple industries to work at)>Branchline has two reversing loops at both ends, so if you want to you can run three trains continuously or leave one track open for operations while the other two run in the background. Before I settled on anything I was going with something like this: A two-track line with one going around the the entire width of the table and the other going through a folded figure-8 in the middle. This one was really bad since all the switching action was stuck in the middle of the layout, and the back (The northmost part) had nothing going on as a result. Way too many right angle curves too. Then I went to the drawing board and came up with...
