This is the rough overall design for the layout. It will be double-decked and each grid square is 1 foot. The main yard will be in the upper right hand corner of the room instead of along the wall. The peninsula will be "smoothed out" but the general layout is roughly correct.
The basic premise is that you are going from Minneapolis/St. Paul into the Dakotas on a "combined" main line for Canadian Pacific and BNSF Railroads. In reality, the tracks are separate, but I'm combining them for purposes of this layout. You leave the lower staging yard (lower left of picture) and work your way around the room and into the helix (lower right corner) to go to the upper level.
There will be a combination of run-through freight trains, Amtrak and VIA Rail passenger trains, as well as lots of operations with locals originating from the main yard (lower deck, top of picture) and 1 or 2 smaller yards along the mainline.
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