03-24-2011, 04:12 PM
Hello everyone.
I have been trying to come up with a smallish switching layout for my N scale trains. The idea is a 1 foot wide shelf along two walls. The first leg is 79" long and will contain a yard. I have come up with the plan above using Atlas #7 turnouts an 2 curved turnouts. I tried to include all best practices in designing the yard, but was unable to include an escape track for incoming locos. My idea was to pull the train into one of the center tracks and have a switcher ready on the yard lead to pull the cut of cars from the incoming train and move them to the other center track thus allowing the incoming locos to get to the service tracks. I know it's not realistic but it's the best I can come up with. The yard has a capacity of around 50 cars but a working capacity of 25-30. I have 2 GP9s, and an F7 A & B as road units and an SW9 for switching duty. Train lengths will be 8-10 cars, including 2 locos and a caboose. Any thoughts on this design will be most welcome.
Thank you,
John
John