Comments: I constructed this panoramic view from three digital photos. It shows you how a 20 car train (with 4 units on the front of that) looks on the Coos Bay branch. While the front end of the train is entering Camas Valley siding, the middle of the train is on Slater Creek trestle, and the end of the train is just leaving King Creek bridge in the town of Remote. I designed the Siskiyou Line for 30-car trains, but I was originally going to model the mid-1960s (still a few black widow units left) so I used 40-foot cars as the unit of measure. After I decided to move to the 1980s, trains of that era consist mostly of 50 and 60-foot cars. As a result, 20-25 car trains is more like it, as this photo testifies. A 1980s style 20-car train looks plenty long on the layout as designed.

Click on the photo to get a super-sized version of it if you want to study it up close.