Track Plan - Havre Engine Terminal

Since tearing down my MRL themed layout several months ago, I have have been playing around with a couple designs in AnyRail.  This track plan is the first one that I think is fully complete.  The plan is a fairly close reproduction of the BNSF engine terminal located in Havre, MT.  Instead of modeling the entire yard area (which is huge), I have decided to focus on the engine terminal complex, car shops, and two of the local industries.  The two industries are an oil tank farm and the ADM/CHS Elevator.  The neat thing about the elevator is that it has it's own SW1500 switcher.  So BNSF brings them the empties, pulls loads, and the company switcher moves the empty cars to the loading track.  

The staging area would serve as the unmodeled yard area.  Crews would pickup their engines either from the engine terminal tracks or the ready tracks at the Yard Office.  From there, they would move into staging to get their cars.  To simulate mainline running along the Milk River Subdivision, trains coming out of staging or heading into staging would stop at the mainline fueling area located at the yard office.  

Engine terminal operations would include routine service/fueling, as well as inspections and repair work.  The car shop would also be a source of operations; with a switcher crew pulling cars from staging and taking them to the shops, and vice versa.  The switcher would also be responsible for spotting sand and fuel cars in the terminal.

Due to the size of the real terminal, I made several compressions.  The engine shop has 8 service tracks, and I trimmed it down to 3.  Also, the ADM/CHS elevator is located several miles out if town in the real world, and not located right off the back of the car shops.

I really like how this plan turned out because it allows me to showoff my ever increasing fleet of modern BNSF equipment, while being able to have operations and full mainline trains.  However, the main drawback is that there is very little scenery (other than industrial) or open mainline running.  I have several other trackplans that I'm working on that offer more mainline running.  I hope to get them posted in the next few weeks.