Hootersville has changed again

Well I've been working on the layout planning again and I've come up with a design that I have the track for.  I'm calling it " Little Hoot" since its not the full layout that I want to build, but it will do until I have the track, switches and everything else I need.  Little Hoot is designed to be a spur off the main line of Hootersville supporting the Happy Moose Winery.

On the left side will be the Incoming cars, from the bottom up the tracks are design to work as follows:  Track "A" will be a Storage track, but will be used for incoming fruit inspection, a building and a ramp will be placed between the two bottom tracks .  The next track up will be for incoming car storage.  Tracks "C" & "D" will be where all the action takes place as these will be the main recieving and shipping tracks for the winery itself.  Track "E" will be the Icing Track.  Since this railway is dated late 1950's to early 1960's refrigerated cars were still not commonly used so I need a track to load the Ice needed to keep the product cold while heading to market.  On this layout I will need several buildings to make things go.  I see the need for a "Yard Shed" where the engineers get there orders, an Incoming Fruit Inspection Building and Ramp, a "Process Building" for the Winery, and an Ice House & Platform. I also plan on having to the left of the switches the outskirts of Hootersville the town.  Obviously I've seen a lot in this small layout but I'm excited about the future of it.  I will be making a video shortly of what Little Hoot looks like in reality instead of just drawings.  Stay tuned

Its finally Here

Well my DCC kit finally arrived and man I'm glad, taking out all the parts got me wondering what I'd gotten myself into.  I recieved four loco's and eight assorted freight cars and two cabooses.  I've been looking through my catalogs and figured the Hooterville layout has around $400.00 worth of just switches in the plan!  Well I'm committed to the plan but just not today.  I put together some of the track that I got with my kit and came up with this layout that I call Hootersville II

I still have 7 pieces of curved track and 3 straight sections but without any additional switches I'm stuck right now.  I will start to scenic this but I'm limited due to this being a portable ( on 2 - 4'ft. tables ).  Everything has to be able to be removed and put away for the moment.  This situation will be changing in the next few weeks as I'm building a garden shed for the wife's gardening stuff.

One question I'll ask you all, I'm looking at this layout supporting a Winery but I'm stuck on how to run operations on this layout right now............. any ideas????