Starting the plan

I'm still working on the track plan for the road, but I do have one thing in, my staging yard. I've opted to go for a fiddle type yard instead of a traditional ladder type. Using two 5-track, 6' 6" sliding drawers, allows me to use 4 tracks per drawer (Middle track will be the through/dispatch track) giving me 52' of storage space. (I may use more if the benchwork on that wall exceeds 14" wide) And the 6' 6" length allows me to have multiple short trains per storage track, and long double-headed mixed freights.

Here is the picture of the proposed yard:

I'm going to have the leads as a helix under two peninsulas on each side of the room, and they will probably connect to the main via a hidden spur inside a tunnel.

There's more to come! ;)