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Preliminary Track Plan - A three level track plan

PDF link to the multi-deck plan here .   One sheet per deck.   The first level is southeastern South Dakota.  Upper level is the South Dakota Black Hills, starting with Custer with the branch to Hot Springs, SD.   Lower Level exists to support Sioux City, the main yard and staging for the other decks. Here are some scratches that I've been keeping in a Google doc about the towns that will be modeled and some potential indistries to be modeled.  Will be a mix of real and ficticious. Stations / Towns Whitewood - staging for DM&E / FEMV - Hidden staging level Tracks spaced 2 inches on center. Off the helix, we’ll put a #8 left hand switch followed by two RH #6 switches Deadwood Use Walthers City Station as stand-in for C&NW station  Fisher & Hunter T. C. Fruit Co Lumber Yard Orohondo Cyanide tanks Kirk / Yates yard     Coal dump for the power plant - maybe some traffic for Lead, SD and the Homestake mine. 91 can only handle 3 loads up to the plant from yates.  227 can hand