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<p>[quote user="BRAKIE"]</p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">BMMECNYC</div> <div class="quote-content">Its just that the ground throws physically dont fit between the tracks.</div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>Are they to wide?</p> <p>You could rig up a push/pull method-maybe by using a car choke cable?</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Edelbrock-8013-Universal-Choke-Cable/dp/B0052EPBX0/ref=sr_1_2/188-6154194-8800300?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1406480828&sr=1-2&keywords=choke+cable">http://www.amazon.com/Edelbrock-8013-Universal-Choke-Cable/dp/B0052EPBX0/ref=sr_1_2/188-6154194-8800300?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1406480828&sr=1-2&keywords=choke+cable</a></p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p> </p> <p>Yes the ground throws are too wide.  Some sort of facia mounted turnout control may work in this situation.  I didnt put holes in the subroadbed for that, but that is not an insurmountible task.</p> <p>Broadway Lion:</p> <p>The track closest to the yard ladder was meant to be the caboose track, and the one closest to the turntable also serves as a runaround for the yard lead/possible rip track (I labeled photo incorrectly). </p> <p>The rip track was more of a "hey layout owner this car has a problem" (switch crew can set the cars with issues there and I'll fix between operating session), rather than an actual rip track scene (I have a place for one of those set aside for later installation other than the track off the main line). </p> <p>Edit:  MOW or wreck train sounds like the most likely candidate for the track the leads off of the main line.  Car shop/other rail related industries might work too, but in real life that side of the yard was a mirror of the left with the double track main running through the center (a bypass was added around the yard for through freight/passenger service.  All back shops were located in the vicinity of the roundhouse/TT.  I have selectively compressed the back shops and the double track main out, leaving the bypass track due to insufficient space. </p>
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