by MattW
How fast can trains travel with a reverse hose? 25? 30? I don't think that's much slower than the track speed anyways. I still say it would be best to rebuild the WYE there just north of the station, and do the reverse move on the deadhead, in other words, train pulls straight into the station, discharges passengers, backs onto the wye, pulls into the yard. The morning move could pull down toward the station if that's faster, but take the wye, then shove into the station. It would limit the platforms to the two near platforms at the outside, but maybe switches could be built all the way over to the fourth one, there's enough room to maybe even avoid a slip switch.