02-20-2009, 09:45 PM
nomad Wrote:Russ, thank you. If I understand you right, you actually see the island as a branch, and the shorter as another branch, with the big table being the class 1.
Is that correct?
I never thought about that. I was just going to run a train from the yard to the far turntable, switching industries along the way, turning on the table, go back to the yard, again switching out cars along the way. The interchange was to be for the island complex only, have its own switcher, and the yard switcher would swap out the interchange.
Loren
Actually I see just the opposite. It doesn't make sense to have a turn table at each end of a branch with no interchange, or mainline for the branch to come off of. I was thinking that you might make the island leg in the middle the mainline connection. You then put a wye off the island leg to both ends of the "L" which are now two branch lines going off in opposite directions. I'm not sure if it will work or if it could be made believable.