Grizzly Range Branch

I'm having second thoughts about using this broad track plan.

While I am largely still interested in the twisted figure eight which gives the main loop almost double the mainline length, the lack of more than two or three usable spurs or a reverse loop is kind of a turnoff. Also, the one big spur, which I'd kind of thought to be the play where it connects to the Mirabeau connector 2x6 is in completely the wrong place. I'm not longer sure that this is really the basic track plan that I want after all, or if I want to look for alternatives. Like I said, the twisted figure eight double loop is the main attraction of this track plan; other than that, it actually offers very little. Not sure if I think that's enough to keep my interest or not. Then again, the rest of the railroad offers plenty of operational possibilities, if that's what I'm looking for. Perhaps two passing sidings and two small spurs (and one really big one) is worth it if I can instead focus on the scenery, trackways above and behind each other, and some long running distance.

I've got plenty of other 4x8 track plans I can modify, or I can make my own modifications to this one, really.

Here's a few to get started:

The last two are kinda funky. There's almost no chance that I'd ever do the yard with the turntable, but I couldn't resist showing it anyway. Above that are two mirrored but also slightly different takes on the same idea. The bottom one, if I go ahead and close the loop at the top, is a possibility, maybe, although that's still a very weird track plan. The top one, if you ignore the scenic notations, is a possibility, and the one with the desert stuff would have to be rethemed, obviously, but otherwise is a pretty nice alternative. If I went with that, I'd rotate it 90° so that the right edge is at the top. The long spur that's all in the tunnel; I have no idea what the purpose of that even is, so I'd probably cut it short.