OldEngineman Fill out the form below to create a new reply. OldEngineman wrote the following post 11 minutes ago:
Indeed..We modelers have a tenancy to stuff cars on every track thus "Wabashing" our yard to the point where building a train requires a lot of movess and many of those moves may be unnecessary..
IMHO we should hold the cars to 60-70% of the yard capacity so we can have a workable yard.
Larry
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BRAKIE OldEngineman Fill out the form below to create a new reply. OldEngineman wrote the following post 11 minutes ago: Indeed..We modelers have a tenancy to stuff cars on every track thus "Wabashing" our yard to the point where building a train requires a lot of movess and many of those moves may be unnecessary.. IMHO we should hold the cars to 60-70% of the yard capacity so we can have a workable yard.
And there you have it, a few posts back I explained how I sized my yard.
I sized it based on train length and desired capacity using 75%.
This is not my first rodeo...........
Sheldon
ATLANTIC CENTRALAnd there you have it, a few posts back I explained how I sized my yard.
Sheldon,I don't "Wabash" my industries on my ISLs either nor did every industries get switch every operation.. Some days my crew would need to pickup empties and spot off spot cars(if any) and take them to the interchange with no inbound cars to pickup while other days there may be 1-8 inbound cars. Some days there was no work to be done so,the crew put on their maintenace caps and service the engine or cut grass and weeds and do other maintenace work. Some days they get 4 hours show up pay and sent home.
BRAKIEMark,If I built standard large layouts instead of ISLs and if my yard lead permitted I would go with 3 cars per axle for 0-6-0s so,a 0-6-0 could pull 18 cars which would look about right. A 0-8-0 at 4 cars per axle could pull 32 cars or double the amount a 0-6-0 could pull.
The limits I set are somewhat arbitrary, and may be adjusted a bit as time goes on. For now, they seem to fit well with my 22-24 car max train lengths. If my train length were greater, I'd probably go with larger cuts of cars for the switcher maximums.
Mark P.
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PruittLarry, I'm guessing you mean "per driver" and not "per axle."
Yup,It's hard for a long time diesel fan to talk steam instead of drivers I'm accustom to axle..Oddly when I was a teenager I knew every part of a steam engine and every class of steam engine PRR had.
My Santa Fe 2-8-0 keeps tempting me to model 53/54.