I'm attempting to rework a siding to a feed mill. It's based on a real business and the siding is pre-WWII. Everything is now gone. The railroad has fast forwarded to the 1980s on my layout.

At the top of the schematic, the siding eventually rejoins the main.

Flow of cars: A trackmobile pulls cars through the mill heading to the bottom. Then shoves loads towards the top on the load track. This is typically a car at a time. 

The Sipping and Switching Society of North Carolina will display the HO Scale modular layout this coming weekend, September 12 and 13 in Denver, NC.

Salem United Methodist Church
378 N. Pilot Knob Rd
Denver, NC. 28037

Friday. 10 am to 8 pm
Saturday. 10 am to 4 pm

no charge for admission or parking

Here is my proposed track plan for my shelf layout. I am open to any ideas, suggestions, or any issues I might not be seeing. I am going to have staging cassettes for the top left and at the interchange at the bottom. Eventually when this gets finished I can expand on the left side with another 4' x 9' shelf with a 4 foot cassette to connect the 2 shelfs across the sliding door. 

I have a large barn (two stories).  I am re-entering the hobby after 30+ years.  I have always wanted to have a grand layout, now I have the space.  There are many ideas bouncing around, mostly inspired by the amazing layouts I see here and on TMTV.  I have 30 acres of timber on this farm I recently purchased ranging from pines, cedars and spruce to black walnut, maple & oak.  Material is not really an issue either.  So when you find yourself in possession of most everything you need to make your big layout a reality, how do actually plan this out?