I took my time deciding just which project of over 300 I have planned for My Rio Grande Southern RR Circa 1930-40 I wanted to start first. Some of the structures I have planned will take 1 to 2 years to scratch build others only a few weeks.

Anyone have any experience or ideas about incorporating the Walthers transfer table into a layout design? I am thinking of a small HO layout (about 3 x 8 ft) that focuses entirely on the engine servicing facilities.

OK, this is partially operations and partly layout design. I am considering having a staging yard that's hidden. In fact, it would be just a foot underneath the main (visible) yard, so it cannot be realistically switched in place. As such I think it's only viable for, well, staging. How does everyone else switch the trains to make up the staged trains? Just use one of the visible yards in a non-operating session?

This weekend I got around to finishing up the tail track so that I could run a train across the module and verify that all the feeders and trackwork was OK.  I found one loose feeder, possibly caused when the module set fell off the sawhorses in the garage.  The other problem was one turnout with a sticky point.  I got both those taken care of and shot a little video of the first train here: