Hump yards.

[Anonymous]

Should you model hump yards? or would that be too hard for the realism?
Thanks

[Anonymous]

A stock yard full of camels......Nah, too hard and not realistic

[Eriediamond]

JCtrain, In my opinion, hump yards would not be that hard to model, but operating would be a night-mare. I've tried it and it's not worth the time for me, anyway, to try it again. Too many variables in car rolling capabilities and then the coupler maintainance you'll have to go through. ( Sorry Kadee fans, but even Kadee couplers will only take so much). On the other hand you may have that special talent some have to overcome some obsticals others can't. I might suggest maybe a 3 or 4 ladder yard to experiment with and give it a go. Bubba (>^..^<) would like to be there as an observer!!!!!!

[jrbarney]

I did a search at the Index of Magazines:
http://index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?opt=S&cmdtext=hump+yard&MAG=ANY&output=3&sort=A
of the articles cited, seven dealt with HO or N scale hump yards. Years ago, as I recall there was an article where the car retarders were controlled with either solenoids or air pistons - the biggest problem was fine tuning the retarders.
Have you used the Search the forums ... window to see if there were any earlier threads on this topic ?
Bob
NMRA Life 0543

[Anonymous]

Hump Yars are natoriously large, even in it's minimalistic state. you'd be dedicating about a 12 x 4 foot area on the smallest Hump yard and the size goes up as you make it bigger.

For the size restrictions, most modelers don't do hump yards, unless you have a football feild sized area to model in.

Jay