As many of you may recall I have a great love for short lines and terminal roads…While checkibg CSX’s web site for some possible industries I ran across this little beauty.
What a neat little layout this would make! Being a switching freak, I can see lots of possibilities and endless car moves. After expanding (and printing) the image, I realized that this little gem would take up a fair amount of real estate. It is hard to see, but that receiving yard, at the top of the drawing, looks rather large…although you can’t really tell how many sidings there are. Seriously, if I had the room; I would love to build this track plan. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Ray,The yard could be condense to 3 or 4 tracks and still look “right”.If I was to model this terminal road I use 4 tracks.1 inbound,1 outbound and 2 holding…1 would use 2 spots on one holding track to park the engines after the "work " day is completed.
Fueling would be done by contract with a local fuel distributor.
Thanks for posting this Brakie!!! Looks like just the right idea for my grandson - at the last club show I took him to he spent more time on the little switching layout than looking on the big club setup!!! Or should I say pike? [8D]
I suggest looking at this website http://www.wymann.info/ShuntingPuzzles/ which is English - and lots of fun. I modeled my current layout on a variant of the Timesaver puzzle…keeps the gray matter humming. Having said that, I do like the Port of Albany idea. Who knows…maybe someday.
Brakie: I don’t need any additional encouragement to purchase yet more Peco turnouts (the Road Superintendent will lock me out of the house for sure)! Thanks for the suggested yard arrangement…now if I win the lottery AND had more than a 12’x12’ room to use…
I know a couple of small layout plans, one is the actual CNJ I think that used the first diesel boxcab on a small circular track that switched around docks, very adaptable proto line to model, I also recall some traction switching pike published in MR, it might have been copied into one of the track planning books, I would love to do that one, it had a very dense switching area going in and out of street running and dock areas into street side industries, very compact and great puzzler switching.
