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Shunting Operations at the Nabisco Plant

When I started looking at the operations for my layout, one of the criteria I set was to have industries that were large enough to handle multiple car types to sustain production for that industry. To reach this goal I started off with an Excel spreadsheet noting all the industries that I would like to have on my layout. I ended up with more industries than the layout could ever handle, but it helped to break it down to what was possible and what was not.

From this process was born the Nabisco plant. I then created a separate spreadsheet just

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