No Room For Trains -- Clearly I'm not a model railroader or an urban planner. This one spur track serves a junkyard, a small factory, several grain elevators, a feed mill, a freight house, 2 plants of a sash & door company, and a plastics outfit. And I don't care. #ModelRailroad #Oscale #diorama
Look at some of the real trains in some Asian countries. They run through some very tight places in some cities, and merchants have to keep their wares close to their shop for fear they will get crushed between the trains and buildings!
youtu.be/2sxuAm569IY?... Here's the one I was talking about. There are others where the train is much closer to the buildings, but this should give you the idea.
On a tangent, some of those same countries have some high-speed rail projects I'd love to see.