FasTrack Yards

[lionelsoni]

For closely-spaced yard tracks, check this out:
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=59523

[3railguy]

Another alternative is to cut off equal portions of the switch curved section, a curved track section, and rejoin them permanently using plastic strips glued under the roadbed as strongbacks. This requires some precision mitre cuts and soldering but it can be done.

[Brutus]

I've read about this problem before with fastrack - dunno. Can your trains approach your yard from either end? If so, maybe you could have "two" overlapping yards with the "parking" tracks staggered between each other.... You could have a bypass track at the "front" end of your yard to access the "2nd yard", I guess.

[Frank53]

using tubular track, one trick is that on an O-72 switch, instead of using an O72 curve coming off, use a half section of O31. It has the same # of degrees to bring teh track back parallel to the feed, but it allows for much closer placement.

[SchemerBob]

I have discovered that, when making a yard with regular tubular or FasTrack full curves, the tracks are spaced out so far, that you probably could fit another track in between them! How do you make a realistic FasTrack yard that can acommodate trains that go through O42 curves?