Now this is getting silly
(a) it was stated that no more than 15 boards
now you say extra boards that are not part of the layout like a staging area is ok,
So if I put up a 15 board populated route with a 25 board staging area that would also be OK
You say that it would look silly because you cant hide the staging area from the route, thats wrong you can
I have one thats only 5 boards but has a staging area that runs on auto thats 25 boards away from the route, and no way can you see this from the route, this is none by using portals on and off the route and staging area, the 25 boards hold 16 different consists in each direction 32 consists in total that circulate the route according to a time table
IT WORKS
(b) It was stated no published routes, well there is not much difference in the published 'Yard switching Route" and the so called new ' Port Switching Route' so what percentage on newness is required I have a nice one on the DLS I could use, just change a couple of industys and the name of the stations, move a few houses around and presto, a new layout
Seems at the moment each time someone else wants to join the goal posts get moved to accomadate them
so lets have a set of rules published and aftrewards no changes