09-21-2012, 03:00 PM
Hmm - wonder if I scared Harry away by asking too many questions?
To give a shorter answers - I like your sketch no 2 the best, but the two things that give me pause is
a) That your yard seems pretty small to have engine service (and possibly have several engines stationed at the yard) - I would recommend trying put in more tracks.
b) I am uncertain about using one of three double ended tracks as a dedicated caboose track.
Seeing what I could fit into a H0 space equivalent to your Z scale layout, one could e.g. do something like this:
![[Image: harry01_zpsf922f9bb.jpg]](http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/pp124/steinjr_1965/forum/harry01_zpsf922f9bb.jpg)
I have made the assumtion that arriving engines will be at the left end of the train, and that cabooses can be pulled last from the arriving train and attached at the end of the departing train last.
It would of course be possible to park cabooses on a double ended track.
Prototype inspiration from Lakeville, NY: http://binged.it/QsAH34
Smile,
Stein
To give a shorter answers - I like your sketch no 2 the best, but the two things that give me pause is
a) That your yard seems pretty small to have engine service (and possibly have several engines stationed at the yard) - I would recommend trying put in more tracks.
b) I am uncertain about using one of three double ended tracks as a dedicated caboose track.
Seeing what I could fit into a H0 space equivalent to your Z scale layout, one could e.g. do something like this:
I have made the assumtion that arriving engines will be at the left end of the train, and that cabooses can be pulled last from the arriving train and attached at the end of the departing train last.
It would of course be possible to park cabooses on a double ended track.
Prototype inspiration from Lakeville, NY: http://binged.it/QsAH34
Smile,
Stein