It is important to have a decent idea of what you want to build before you start your layout. It's even better to have a good, scale plan, something that is easily done these days with freeware from the manufacturers of model track as well as with a basic CAD-program. Here is the general plan for the Onondaga Cutoff..bmp)
It's a crappy screen shot, but you get the general point. Staging is the right image, what's visible on the upper level is on the left, generally. More operational details will be worked out once the railroad is in place. Basically, there will be through trains, as well as a few road frieghts that work Onondaga Yard. The shortline, the "Minoa & Euclid Railroad," will be built along the north wall of the basement. M&E, not coincidentally, is the Morristown & Erie Railway in real life, the local shortline in Morris County, NJ where I grew up. This small Alco-powered shortline will come down to do interchange with Conrail in Onondaga Yard, the angled facility on the top level. My M&E is fictional, of course, although the real M&E owns the "Maine Eastern" so having another M&E-named railroad has a prototype too, I suppose.
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It's a crappy screen shot, but you get the general point. Staging is the right image, what's visible on the upper level is on the left, generally. More operational details will be worked out once the railroad is in place. Basically, there will be through trains, as well as a few road frieghts that work Onondaga Yard. The shortline, the "Minoa & Euclid Railroad," will be built along the north wall of the basement. M&E, not coincidentally, is the Morristown & Erie Railway in real life, the local shortline in Morris County, NJ where I grew up. This small Alco-powered shortline will come down to do interchange with Conrail in Onondaga Yard, the angled facility on the top level. My M&E is fictional, of course, although the real M&E owns the "Maine Eastern" so having another M&E-named railroad has a prototype too, I suppose. 
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