KK, you might find this a little tedious to operate. Since the tail tracks are shorter than the spurs or yard tracks they serve, you’ll have lots of repetitive moves. Many folks find that a pain after a while.
But more concerning, there is no runaround, so the engine cannot move to the other side of the cars. Unless you use two engines, there’s no way to move a car from the spurs at upper left to the yard tracks at the lower right. All the plans I posted had a runaround track. If you don’t know what constitutes a runaround or why one is important, a little more study might be helpful before you finalize your design.
You know Byron, this has come up so often lately, that I think I’m going to write an article and show a couple diagrams demonstrating what a runaround is and why its important. I’ll keep you posted.
You know Byron, this has come up so often lately, that I think I’m going to write an article and show a couple diagrams demonstrating what a runaround is and why its important. I’ll keep you posted.
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Great idea Chip [:)]
well thats exactly the kind of stuff im looking for, helps alot. this is a basic design, and i can improve on it. so thanks for the tips, because this is a learning experience for me.
well i read up on the yards section of the Layout Design Primer, and i think i get the basic idea, but i find it hard to understand without some kind of example or illustration…
where in this case would be the best place to put a runaround? two turnouts facing eachother on two of the yard tracks?
the LDSIG describes an A/D track to., and from what i understand, its a track where the switching crew put all the cars theyve pulled from the yard track, hook up a mainline loco, and go, right? what i dont understand is where is this track supposed to be located? is it one of the body tracks?
since this is a “port scene”, im assuming the way things would work is there would be cars stored on the top three or four body tracks, and when a shipment comes in, cars are moved into a consist on the lower one or two tracks, loaded, and then hooked up to mainline power and taken wherever they need to go.
i have alot of questions about this. the LDSIG helped alot, but like i said, id need to see a diagram or something to explain where everything goes.