I am asking for the real world railroad.For example, do they build with the same manner the station yards,indusrties etc. and do they have the same rules?
That question covers a LOT of territory. Could you be a bit more specific?
Much depends on the era, the geographical area and the size of the railroad.
European railways tend to focus on passenger traffic, freight is mostly carried at night.
Passenger stations are usually located in the city center, and are often sprawling complexes with trains arriving and departing every few minutes.
In the US the main operations are freight traffic. Passenger stations are often small and simple and few trains stop there on any given day. The exception is the Northeast where most of the US passenger traffic is concentrated. It’s electrified, has sleek fast trainsets, much like Europe.
Again, please be more specific what you want to know.
Frank
Let’s see…in England trains drive on the left and pass on the right, if I recall. [:o)]
To answer your question, essentially yes, but with minor differences. Most of it is cosmetic, but a railroad station is recognizeable in any country, and so is the track and infrastructure. Trains still meet and have to pass, one deferring to another, and grades still require helper districts in some places on the globe. Switching is done in much the same way everywhere if it is done efficiently…so, trains are made up the same way and dispatched the same way. Language and cultural differences aside, trains operate very much the same everywhere. This is true especially where they routinely cross borders, such as in Europe, and where one would expect standardized procedures.
Terminology is different too. Ties are sleepers, passing sidings are loops, cars and coaches are carriages, engineers are drivers and switching is shunting.
-George
If we see a design of a station yard can we say “Yes this is an US station”?Are both builded with Lead track , A/D track , main line, with the same manner?
In few words, if i build a Layout without scenery but only with tracks can you see if it is for US or European railroad?
Esentually the differences will be the scenery and the rolling stock, both locomotives and “cars”. The tracks and the way they are layed out will be very similar, except for track guage and types of trains that you run. The actual operations of the trains will be very different from region to region in the US, Europe, Asia, Africa, South and Central America as dictated by local economic needs and historically developed operating “rules”.
Will
Assuming that you want to run fairly modern trains (1980 and later) the track layout would be not that different between US and Europe. When you don’t build scenery the trains will in effect be your scenery. When you change the trains, you change the location.
Modern track layout tends to be simpler than in the pre-WWII period. More trains on less track. I think it would be better if you stayed away from special trackwork, like 3-way switches or double slip switches (DKW). Since WWII the rail network both in the US and Europe has been downsized and normal switches are preferred. The advantage is that you can have heavy operations on modest track layouts.
Signalling is different per country but similar enough not to be too obvious.
I don’t know if you will be installing electric wires (catenary) over the track. This is common in Europe but rare in the US. Only the northeast has electrified mainlines.
If this is the way you want to do it, then it would look convincing.
Frank
If by “operating” you mean the actual rules and procedures that a railway uses, then this statement is not true at all. Compare Norac operating rules and procedures with those of a European country - as an example - and you’ll find that there are considerable differences. Compare British operating rules and procedures to Norac, and again note the differences.
And yet what you find is that operating rules, procedures, and signalling systems are not standardised throughout Europe at all - each country has it’s own unique systems.
Cheers,
Mark.