RIP track location

[Anonymous]

Ive heard that having a RIP track for cars that derail, uncouple, etc. is the best way to get all of your rolling stock running well. It seems sensible so i ordered some bad order slips. One question though. Where is a good place to put a RIP track? At first i was thinking of the track closest to the front of the layout in my main yard. But i really dont want to waste yard space. I have no scenery yet so adding another track somewhere would be no problem. Any suggestions?

[ShaunCN]

he RIP track here is off to the side of the yard, they are noramlly not the big I don't think you could also put the RIP track(s) near the engine terminal. But it's entirely up to you and i'm not shure of how you layout is set up.

[foxtrackin]

The rip tracks on my layout (I am in HO scale in the mid 50"s) are located near the round house and car shop. This is where the cars needing minor repair would be repaired. It would be where the wheel tracks and other car parts and tools would be located and also a place located so that the workforce who would work on the cars would be able to get to the worksite.

[jwar]

Having worked for two roads, the rips were reasonably logistley close to support buildings ajacent to either a roundhous or back shops. Inbound supplys either rail or truck came into one shipping recieving dept that supported both locomotive and car depts. This building could make a good industry to spot cars and trucks, maintaince of way ect.

However not all rips were close to engine repair shops account of terain or property restrictions.

[Anonymous]

OK, thanks for the info. I have a 3 track engine terminal and i could designate one of them as a RIP track. That track wouldnt be used for switching anyway. I can then extend the other two to accomodate all my engines when theyre not running.

[Dough]

Just to continue the above, the depots around here tend to have a small RIP track. They are usually near the depot building and are generally very small (3-5 cars max). They drop off any bad order cars, and then someone eventually comes out and services them. They also often park the engines for the local on the RIP track because it is so close to the building.

[egmurphy]

Just a thought, but if you have a small layout with limited yard space, I would suggest that the best place for a RIP track would probably be off the layout. Unless modeling the repair work is something that you are looking at as part of the yard scenery, it would seem to me that you'd be occupying part of a limited resource (yard or engine terminal space) for something that would give minimal operational payback.

Maybe I'm missing something, it is getting a bit late.

Regards

Ed

[Anonymous]

my layout is 10x11. Its pretty small but there is lots of yard space. I want to have a RIP track on the layout to make it part of operations. You drop off any bad order cars and then i get the job of [sigh] fixing them after the operating session.

[john lea]

Hey dough, the rip you are talking about sounds more like a team track which was usually located behind the depot so , in the days of old was named and holds untile this day. JPM335, A rip track can be located just about any where convient for the yard crews to take the car or cars for minor repair. The major repairs were sent off to the rail shops, usually at major termanils. Although in the early days they did alot of repairs of cars and engines on the same tracks. So it's up to you where you place it.

[ericsp]

For those of you who do not know, RIP stands for Repair in Place.