Track plan help?
#46
I don't have the drawing program to open the file so I will have to tell you what I see.
1 You will need what I call feeder tracks for your yard. It is a track long enough to hold your average train. It usually would run along side of your main line. This is so you can work your yard without getting on the main.

2 On the upper right side your main ends at a scene block. You may want to put a tunnel portal there and connect with main line on other side for a continuace (spell check)Loop if desired. Such as when friends stop by an just wish to see trains running or if you ever have open house.
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#47
Matt,

A few more comments for your consideration.

In my opinion, you do not need a lower level for staging. Your room is big enough that you can have ("operational") surround staging, accessible from the top and right sides. This should give you more than enough room, and an extra job for an additional crew (if that's how you plan to operate). Of course, this depends on your willingness to renovate your benchwork - which you'd need to do for a second level...

Lester's point about the feeder track (also called a drill track, if I understand his description of its use...) leads me to suggest that if you go for operational staging as above, you will need to make sure your design works well, with arrival and departure tracks, etc. Pure staging may not need these considerations, but either way, you need well-performing trackwork! Wink

Hope that helps,

Andrew
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#48
I appreciate everyone's input. It has given me a lot of ideas to chew on.
Andrew, I agree that the lower level would not be practical. I have more than enough room for a staging yard at the top and right sides.
I have re-designed the benchwork, and as soon as I tweak it a bit, I will post the pic.
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#49
I have not worked on the track plan in a while. I will have to dust it off tomorrow and have another run at it.
I keep meaning to post pics of the reworked benchwork. That is on my to-do list for tomorrow as well.


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I am contemplating something. I am thinking of making McGrew an active staging yard. Only locals and turns will originate there, everything else will be through trains picking up, or setting out. With the obvious exception being passenger trains. Since Flint is the third largest city in Michigan, it would be unwise to not originate passenger service there.
I will have to mull this over and see what my tattered brain spits out.


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