I am working on a 2' wide shelf industrial layout (8' x 10' x 5') and am wondering if there is a lower limit to the number of customer spots that are needed to keep the layout from becoming boring to operate.  The current design has 22 customers with a total of 56 car spots.  I have a four track fiddle yard to supply the layout that holds 34 cars.  This is a post depression USRA era layout based on an actual prototype (NKP).  The prototype had over forty customer spots in a rather tight area (roughly 5 blocks by 10 blocks), so dense trackage and buildi

I'm writing waybills for my layout and stumble across many questions. Maybe you could help:

The biggest station on my layout is a small town along a freelanced branch line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. There will be a freight house. There won't be more than two incoming cars each day.

Now I'm wondering how the LCL-traffic in a small town could look like:

A few captive cars between my station and one or two hubs for LCL (one north staging, one south staging)?

Only or almost only PRR-cars?

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