01-02-2014, 11:26 PM
H1. A switchback is a place where you have to pull into one siding, change a switch, then back into another. One example is getting in to your turntable in the coloured plan.
I think that for the size of your plan you shouldn't consider anything called "staging". Staging is where trains wait until they are scheduled to appear. At 7x9 there isn't room for that.
Again, it depends on what you want. If you are going to do switching (which your plans suggest) you'll do better with a couple of locos to move cars around. I had one a bit bigger than that and I put a hidden staging yard under one of my stations -- actually most of the layout was connecting from the station to the staging yard.
How many people are likely to run it most of the time? Just you? You and some family? A half dozen guys from the railroad club?
I think that for the size of your plan you shouldn't consider anything called "staging". Staging is where trains wait until they are scheduled to appear. At 7x9 there isn't room for that.
Again, it depends on what you want. If you are going to do switching (which your plans suggest) you'll do better with a couple of locos to move cars around. I had one a bit bigger than that and I put a hidden staging yard under one of my stations -- actually most of the layout was connecting from the station to the staging yard.
How many people are likely to run it most of the time? Just you? You and some family? A half dozen guys from the railroad club?
David
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.