Lakeline

And, in fact, that actually necessitated then traipsing a kilometer back out through the woods again, but I am glad that I got these photos.

After traipsing through the woods, well, both myself and the DMU, Metrorail then jumps over the highway at an angle past some more modern and therefore more beautiful housing, and then goes from a single-track mainline to a single platform at Lakeline Station.

Now, if you look actually carefully at the station, I believe it is actually future-proof to have a third track on the other side of the platform, but it's currently just empty space.

So it is just interesting how they designed that future opportunity into the system, but presently that's unused.

So again, this is a fairly normal, fairly standard looking shelf layout concept that has frequent passenger trains on them that interact in very interesting and complicated ways with the freight trains.

This is honestly really exciting to me as far as I'm concerned.

If you have a small room available, something a little bit larger than a shelf layout, you could model maybe from the operations and maintenance facility to the end of the line at Lakeline.

So here you would have the OMF as it comes in from downtown Austin, then a few of those online industry spurs, then basically the same thing that we had earlier in the shelf layout concept with Howard Station, Abbott Yard, and then the interchange with the Union Pacific, and then maybe you could have that long yard-type transfer area for the Limestone Mine, and then Lakeline Station for the Metro Rail.