Hello everyone. I am starting a new layout. It will be in two seperate rooms. The main layout is 12x16 Colorado based. The second room will be a steel mill 9x12. I am very close to finishing the benchwork in the main layout, so I will be getting foam down and start laying track by next week.

The track height is 40". I am ok with the long reaches 33" in some places. I can climb on the benchwork when installing track/switches. (I am a small guy).

I just recently ran across this VERY INTERESTING project to recreate John Allens model RR,...documented in this subject thread on another forum. Perhaps of interest to some model RR fans on this forum that may not know of it.
http://www.modelrailroadforums.com/forum/index.php?threads/the-great-divide-lines-a-tribute-to-john-allen-and-the-gorre-daphetid.31615/

Hello everyone 

Its been quite  a long time since I posted here. Here is track plan for my 16x24 layout room which is in storage building. The layout will be freelanced eastern railroading for now I am planning around the mid 1970's, may revert back to steam transition era eventually.

Curve radius is 26" min. Max grade is 2% and all turnouts are fast tracks #5's. I still need to work on towns and industries spurs. 

I am looking for some advise on signal aspect options for this control point. The plan is to have a two track main going down to a single track main that runs behind the yard into a staging yard. As for the two signals on the far left by the road crossing I am not worried about those as they are pretty standard aspects. Signal one and two are pretty much the same as the left two. It is signal three that is confusing me. 

The two inside tracks both lead into the freight yard and there would be no more signals used to the right of these shown.