Like many folks I am including a Walther's Medusa Cement structure on my layout. Originally it was just going to sit over in one of the back corners of the layout behind the brick factory. It was going to be serviced by a single siding track branching off the outer of two mainline tracks that circle the perimeter of the room. I had found a way to connect the other end of that cement siding back into another track that is also connected to that same mainline track, ...albeit in a more indirect manner.

I've been interested in designing a layout that uses full-scale, prototype-sized curves without resorting to any 'selective compression'.   For N scale this works out to 43" radius curves (1150 scale feet in diameter) to represent a 10-degree curve on the prototype.  My thought is that it would better represent the 'flow' of a real train as it negotiates such a curve, and that replicating such movement is a subliminal way to enhance overall realism.  The other benefit is that it should make it easier to run longer trains with fewer issu