03-22-2010, 10:15 AM
Stein,
I was playing it through in my head yesterday while driving to a train show reading about the double ended yard and what your saying is correct hence the reason why I wanted a track off parallel to the main where the big articulated would have to uncouple and the yard switcher would have to come on a break the train up into two or three sections. Not really prototypical but Its what would have to be done to make it work. I am leaning towards the more practical solution would be actually two stub ended yards next to each other sharing a common lead in track. This way I could theoretically take a car from the west yard and drag it over to the east yard. Like you said the space just isn't there but I have to maximize as much of the room as I possibly can and improvise.
I was playing it through in my head yesterday while driving to a train show reading about the double ended yard and what your saying is correct hence the reason why I wanted a track off parallel to the main where the big articulated would have to uncouple and the yard switcher would have to come on a break the train up into two or three sections. Not really prototypical but Its what would have to be done to make it work. I am leaning towards the more practical solution would be actually two stub ended yards next to each other sharing a common lead in track. This way I could theoretically take a car from the west yard and drag it over to the east yard. Like you said the space just isn't there but I have to maximize as much of the room as I possibly can and improvise.
I reject your reality and substitute my own