Mark, Eric and I drove over to meet with Charlie, Andrew and John for a run session at Charlie's. All had a very good time. I brought along my throttle and Andrew brought a couple so we had 5 throttles running at one time, this is a new "record" for Charlie. We tested Charlie's theory about how the layout will run. IT worked just fine with 5 operators. I can see this layout supporting 6 or 8 operators. Two shuffling trains out from under the layout and up into the east and west bound helixes. Two to Four operators running the trains out of the helixes and across the layout. One dispatcher, and a couple of operators in the yards. Click on an image to see a larger view of the image. http://www.schrempp.us/bob/trains/Charlies-N-Scale-Layout/2003-09-20/charlie-2003-09-20.htm