I need a good design for a small interchange yard that will fit into a 6'x2' shelf. It will be an end leg in my three sided shelf switching layout.
Welcome to the forums.
What scale are you modeling in?
What era do you plan to model? Long cars/short cars
Do you plan to have the first turnout of the yard at the end of the shelf or does there have to be a tail included on the shelf?
Can some to the tracks be stub ended or do you want them all through tracks?
Will this be scenicked or is it mostly off sight staging?
This will get you bumped back to the top and your answers may help the good planners to come up with some ideas for youl.
Good luck,
Richard
yarbee955I need a good design for a small interchange yard that will fit into a 6'x2' shelf. It will be an end leg in my three sided shelf switching layout.
Is this interchange yard is going to be the primary source of cars "arriving and departing" the layout?
Is the interchange yard representing one that is physically between the two roads or is it located such that they both reach it through the same lead? Or is the vision such that one of the roads runs on foreign rails a short distance to get to it?
yarbee955 I need a good design for a small interchange yard that will fit into a 6'x2' shelf. It will be an end leg in my three sided shelf switching layout.
To answer your question without all the technical concerns yes,its very easy..
This is one of my yard switching layouts I was built in '05..The same design could be used for a interchange yard..This is 1'x 10'.
The interchanging railroad would "enter" the yard on the other end and just drop the inbound cars and pick up the out bound cars.
In short its a fiddle yard where you "interchange" cars by removing the "outbound" and replacing them with "inbound" cars..
You could even add your engine servicing area here if you wish.The cardboard was the footprint for the planned engine house.
Larry
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ndbprrI' m not sure there is such a thing as an interchange yard as an "interchange track".
Railroads use inchanged yards for major interchange to include complete trains.
PennNor(PRR/N&W) yard in Columbus was such a yard..
N&W would interchange complete coal trains bound for Sandusky coal docks and some steel mills with PRR.PRR would return the empties to N&W.
PennNor yard went to the N&W after N&W bought the Sandusky line from PRR.
Thanks for your advice and pictures on the "Interchange yard."
ndbprrBut as I said they were probably d ouble ended since if approaching from the stub end there would be no way to run around the train
PennNor had one runner track so the cabin could be added to the PRR train and 2 double ended inbound tracks.N&W part of the yard was doubled ended since that's where the loaded coal trains terminate and the empty hopper train ordinated.Some freight was interchanged here as well.
PRR would shove loaded coal trains into one of five holding tracks since these was ran as extras and would need to wait until there was room at the Sandusky dock receiving yard exception being the coal bound for steel mills.The PennNor switch crew would pull these trains when needed and place them on a outbound track.
Had PRR and N&W planned PennNor yard better and came to a agreement with the operation unions of both roads it could have been operated as a joint yard instead of using a PRR and N&W crew to interchange the trains..