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I've been mulling over the current track plan (with a bit of help from a plans book and a glass of brandy) and I'm thinking of changing things.
It has occurred to me that I could do a terminus to fiddle yard scheme, but with the fiddle yard on a lower level and at the front of the layout. At the front because I don't want to go to the added expense of electric control for the points, and also for ease of access. The fiddle yard would be quite simple, just a couple of sidings where engines could be manually swapped onto the other end of their trains.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? Would the fiddle yard being virtually under the nose of the operator distract from the realism? Or would the operator (ie me) be so taken up with the operating that the close proximity of the 'off stage' world is ignored?
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