10-15-2010, 12:48 PM
I'm at work right now, so I can't really draw it out for you. Otherwise, I'd give it a shot in XtrCAD.
But your lead should be off of all your point facing turnouts at the bottom, unless you were open to putting the ladder at the top of the track plan and leave the stub ends down where you have your maintenance facilities? I like this article about yard design from Craig's Housatonic RR webpage and a I know a few people have posted it before... perhaps it can give you some ideas that you can adapt according to your design goals. http://www.housatonicrr.com/yard_des.html
It makes a lot of good points about yard design, I know it helped me out when I initially started designing my first layout.
But your lead should be off of all your point facing turnouts at the bottom, unless you were open to putting the ladder at the top of the track plan and leave the stub ends down where you have your maintenance facilities? I like this article about yard design from Craig's Housatonic RR webpage and a I know a few people have posted it before... perhaps it can give you some ideas that you can adapt according to your design goals. http://www.housatonicrr.com/yard_des.html
It makes a lot of good points about yard design, I know it helped me out when I initially started designing my first layout.