Show me a barn. DJ.
howmus Thank You Rich! Yes the turnouts are #4s. Only place on the layout they are used. Couldn't fit enough track into the place without staying with #4 turnouts. Everywhere else I use #6 or larger. Have several USRA period locos that can't easily work in the yard. All my smaller (0-6-0, 2-6-0, 4-4-0) locos can switch the yard without problem. larger ones can use the "arrival/departure" track and go straight into the Turntable at the roundhouse, but that is about it. I was quite honored to have the Region AP manager use several of the photos of my layout in a clinic he presented on what the AP looks for in scenery for the Certificate. 73 Back to our regular program....
Thank You Rich!
Yes the turnouts are #4s. Only place on the layout they are used. Couldn't fit enough track into the place without staying with #4 turnouts. Everywhere else I use #6 or larger. Have several USRA period locos that can't easily work in the yard. All my smaller (0-6-0, 2-6-0, 4-4-0) locos can switch the yard without problem. larger ones can use the "arrival/departure" track and go straight into the Turntable at the roundhouse, but that is about it.
I was quite honored to have the Region AP manager use several of the photos of my layout in a clinic he presented on what the AP looks for in scenery for the Certificate.
73
Back to our regular program....
Just before returning to our regular program, I just gotta say that I love the appearance of that yard. Like you, I am contemplating the use of #4's in the coach yard of my new layout for space configuration reasons. Elsewhere, I will use #6 turnouts. In the coach yard, only switchers will operate so the curvature of the #4's should not be a problem. Thanks again for sharing that photo, howmus.
Rich
Alton Junction
One barn comin' up!
Show me anything Chicago North Western.
A D&H boxcar squeals past MY tower at Maryland Junction.
Show me a brakeman at work on your layout.
OOPS! To paraphrase Spike Jones, I forgot to "Turn the page, ya fat head!"
Carry on...
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Redemption post...
Okay... now about that brakeman at work on your layout... show me!
Brakeman at work...at night:
Show me a bus
Matt from Anaheim, CA and Bayfield, COClick Here for my model train photo website
A Jordan bus Show me some white water rafters
With over 1,000 posts to this thread, it now gets a little too big to handle. I´ll now close this thread and open a new one for the month of September.
Look for the new place here.