10-13-2009, 10:53 PM
humm, good insights into this area for sure! I like it!
To address a few comments:
And it is... However I was inspired by a video I saw on line of the Great Canadian steam excursion that invovled the double heading of the CNR 6060 and CPR 2860 through the Rocky Mountains where they were backing through a double tracked truss to join their train. I also saw a double tracked truss at the end of the yard on Mikes layout, and just loved the way it looked. And when I took the Via Rail across Canada when I was 8, Winnipeg had a similar approach if I recall... So I wanted to include something similar in my layout. This seemed to be the best place to put it for me (river with a truss by the station). However, I also wanted that stub end track in because I wanted to be able ot have a train sitting in the station and still run my mainline. In the end the a stub end was the best way.
The reason why it looks like an Orphan is because your viewing the river in relationship to the other bodys of water on the layout correct? I'm choosing to look at the railway as three separate scenes, instead of one large scene where a river in the north would affect the shape of a river in the south. This is one part of the plan I'm pretty much fixed in keeping...
As for the pair of track plans that have been posted. We are for sure dealing with my major issue with the plan... the yard.
I'll have to try those changes and see how it looks with the rest of it. I'm interested for sure to see how it would affect it. Operational interest would be different, because yes, they are essentially a set of staging tracks part of the main.
I do want to have a more "realistic" yard. I want a runaround track. I want a caboose track. I just gotta figure it out a lil better...
The wye is something I wanted because it helps turn the trains in the yard...but whats the point if the yard isn't useable with the wye correctly?
I want something more functional, something to allow me some switching. I can access this part of the layout from the north and east, so reach isn't a huge problem. I can get a good 34" reach without stressing myself as well.
This is why I put the roundhouse in the lower corner, farthest point to reach, but also hopefuly the area with the least reaching (the house anyways, not the table!
)
I'll play with these ideas for the yard. I can skip the wye if I can come up with something better.
To address a few comments:
MountainMan Wrote:What does the small section of river under the spur connect to on your layout. It seems to be an "orphan".
And it is... However I was inspired by a video I saw on line of the Great Canadian steam excursion that invovled the double heading of the CNR 6060 and CPR 2860 through the Rocky Mountains where they were backing through a double tracked truss to join their train. I also saw a double tracked truss at the end of the yard on Mikes layout, and just loved the way it looked. And when I took the Via Rail across Canada when I was 8, Winnipeg had a similar approach if I recall... So I wanted to include something similar in my layout. This seemed to be the best place to put it for me (river with a truss by the station). However, I also wanted that stub end track in because I wanted to be able ot have a train sitting in the station and still run my mainline. In the end the a stub end was the best way.
The reason why it looks like an Orphan is because your viewing the river in relationship to the other bodys of water on the layout correct? I'm choosing to look at the railway as three separate scenes, instead of one large scene where a river in the north would affect the shape of a river in the south. This is one part of the plan I'm pretty much fixed in keeping...
As for the pair of track plans that have been posted. We are for sure dealing with my major issue with the plan... the yard.
I'll have to try those changes and see how it looks with the rest of it. I'm interested for sure to see how it would affect it. Operational interest would be different, because yes, they are essentially a set of staging tracks part of the main.
I do want to have a more "realistic" yard. I want a runaround track. I want a caboose track. I just gotta figure it out a lil better...
The wye is something I wanted because it helps turn the trains in the yard...but whats the point if the yard isn't useable with the wye correctly?
I want something more functional, something to allow me some switching. I can access this part of the layout from the north and east, so reach isn't a huge problem. I can get a good 34" reach without stressing myself as well.
This is why I put the roundhouse in the lower corner, farthest point to reach, but also hopefuly the area with the least reaching (the house anyways, not the table!
)I'll play with these ideas for the yard. I can skip the wye if I can come up with something better.
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