Can you guys put up the track plans for your train yards? because i'm planing mine, so far I have the roundhouse....
-Jake
I have one but it's a rough copy of what it looks like. There are actually two mainlines too.
But this just one of the yards.
The only tracks that hold the cars are the first 4. the others are switching leads with industries. Like I said this is really a rough copy but it should give you some idea.
Happy railroading
James
I have just one switch at the present time on the new yard. But plans show it to be a stub ended body track times 4, one caboose track, One arrival track/departure track with a track allowing the road engine to escape to the roundhouse.
It will be set up with the drill track to the left and the body tracks to the right and there is a small District on one end of the yard and the main is on the other.
I dont have pictures yet but have a few PDF's from Kalmbach related to Operations and yards that are very closely followed with the yard design. I am not wanting to post a screenshot of the yard design from the PDF itself because MR discourages sharing of information from publications.
I expect the small yard to be functional as soon as the required switches are purchased, construction has already started in the room. Which is always a good sign.
My yard is very small. It has an interchange track, a passing track, and the mainline. The spurs consist of a MOW/Caboose/Team track, two engine house leads, and a RIP track. This type of yard seems to be in keeping with most other shortlines.
Most of the shuffling is performed with an 0-5-0 in staging.
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Here's a photo of mine....yard lead at each end, 4 tracks to use as the yard plus a run around the ladder or a caboose track at the bottom of the photo.
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What's in my yard? Let's see...
My plan...it's...not reccomended. It's got three long tracks, two short tracks on the right side of the pic as well as a stub track, then a grain track by the elevator. Then a track goes off to a 3 stall roundhouse with turntable, as shown here:
Now, the yard is too small and not good for switching, the roundhouse isn't big enough, and I have no place to put locomotive sets longer than a pair of S-2s...
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Here is what I have . It has 3 tracks in and is single ended. 1 track brings in and puts out loco's and 1 track brings in passenger trains and the 3rd brings in freight.
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bighead wrote: Can you guys put up the track plans for your train yards? because i'm planing mine, so far I have the roundhouse....-Jake
Upper right hand corner of this layout.
Designed for trains consisting of 1 short diesel engine, 8 40' cars and a caboose, train lengths of about 58".
Has three tracks that are double ended and accessible from the mainline in both directions - two (track 1 and 2) which are long enough to contain an entire train - ie suitable for arrival/departure tracks.
Three stubended tracks off the yard ladder for temporary storage of cars while they are being classified.
Yard switching lead on one (left) end which can be used without fouling the mainline - long enough for a switcher and 6 or 7 cars. Room for a switcher and one car to move from track 2 to track 3 (for runaround moves via track 3) without fouling the mainline on the other (right) end of the yard.
If you want a lot of ideas for yards, go buy the downloadable freight yard information station PDF by John Armstrong about yard design.
URL: http://kalmbachcatalog.stores.yahoo.net/mrpdf035.html
Good luck in designing a workable yard.
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What's in YOUR yard? Kinda sounds like, "What's in YOUR wallet?" doesn't it?
To answer as if it was meant that way:
To describe the yard, it's located on an outside corner of the layout, lead running along one edge, two curved (all divergent routes left) three way switches leading to four stub-end tracks each long enough to hold a 12 car train. The tangent extension of the lead ends at a "ferry slip" for cassettes (used to transfer rolling stock from storage to layout or vice versa.) Since the whole thing is intended to be back-in staging, and will eventually be buried under scenery (and several additional layers of track!) it is totally devoid of any visual enhancements such as ballast.
A similar yard (for longer trains) is currently under construction on the opposite side of the main. The basic design is similar, except that the lead is curved 90 degrees and the body tracks curve an additional 90 degrees, making it a complete 180 degree hairpin.
I can get away with the odd track arrangements because I build my own specialwork, from raw rail. I wouldn't try it in the same space with commercial turnouts!
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
tomikawaTT wrote: What's in YOUR yard? Kinda sounds like, "What's in YOUR wallet?" doesn't it?
That is what it was supposed to sound like lol
In the yard? Well... I agree with the "In your wallet" thing.
At the moment, very little in way of rolling stock. The HO scale crew can probably show up, switch and go home for the day by lunch time LOL.
Here's what I've come up with after quite a few revisions.
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This is what you'll see when you walk into the room from the hall
Even after construction started, once you see how everything fits in real life... revisions happen. The basic plan is based off of a John Armstrong plan. Flipped, stretched, and reversed into something that works for me in my space
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My yard is basically a smallish interchange yard, with an inbound cars track, an outbound cars track, and a short spur for storing cars if necessary. There is also a short turnaround spur on the east (right hand) side. As the yard is part of an industrial railroad, and there are normally only transfer and locals departing and arriving, there is no dedicated drill track. All tracks except the spur are double ended sidings.
You can see a map of my layout, including the interchange yard, on my website:
http://www.stanfordnorth.com/jimsjunction
then click the C&SFT option fom the menu, then the Track Plan link.
Here are some pics of the club layout yards. It is a very large layout and many of the staging tracks are rather long. The configuration of the yards might help though.
These are of our temparary staging.
Besides the staging this is one of the completed permanant yards.
West end and engine facility, leads out to both divisions
Overveiw for a prospective of yard. This entire leg is dedicated to the yard, engine facility, yard industries and both east and west leads.
This yard is not wired yet. I use it for display/ storage.
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bogp40 wrote: Here are some pics of the club layout yards. It is a very large layout and many of the staging tracks are rather long. The configuration of the yards might help though.These are of our temparary staging.Besides the staging this is one of the completed permanant yards.West end and engine facility, leads out to both divisionsOverveiw for a prospective of yard. This entire leg is dedicated to the yard, engine facility, yard industries and both east and west leads.This yard is not wired yet. I use it for display/ storage.
Is that a D&H 5015 RS36 in the top pick??, very nice.
reklein wrote:Myowngod, I REALLY like that plan man. I my have to print that out for future use. I like the big curves and totally adequate yards. I suppose there's problems somewhwere but I sure don't see em yet.
I could do better than printing it out... If you have XtrakCad program(free) I could email the file to you and save you alot of time. From there you could tweek it out for your specs.
Thanks for the compliment. Yes there was "during construction re-engineering" of the plan, but nothing to major.
Here's what the original plan looked like before I started modifying. Notice the yard is is on the opposite side of the main, on the "north" side. That was the major mod I did to the plan, otherwise the engines couldn't get to the yard except through a major switching operation (while crossing the double mainlines)... which is rediculous. I seperated the yard area, mirrored the image, and then rotated it 180degrees. It ended up fitting perfectly on the other side of the main by just moving the mains to the edge of the platform. This allowed better access to the roundhouse and the branchline(green track).
The plan also managed to squeeze in 5 staging tracks, 3 in the mid level and 2 on the bottom level reversing loop (not seen in picture). So the yard can be used for what it meant for, sorting trains, not storing trains.
Here's my minimalist interchange yard at Laurel:
Mainline is to the right, passing siding adjacent, then two body tracks. To the left is an under-constuction engine terminal.
Here's my planned classification yard at Casper:
And a small branchline stub-end yard at Cody:
There's one more branchline stub-end yard, at Lander:
This one is more just a few industry tracks with a passing siding and engine turning facility than a yard.
Mark P.
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My main yard is also the staging for the lower deck of my layout. The original plan as seen in this image does not show the actual 11 tracks that are in the yard.
Here is a view of the actual yard as it was being built. Remember, most of the time plans do represent what will actually be built, however, in this case I found a bit more room and was able to add a few more tracks than originally planned.
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I planned the yard on my railroad using this site... and it is still one of the best resources I have found... no Bull, straight forward...
http://www.housatonicrr.com/yard_des.html
Check out Colton on this plan. There is a discription next to it. The odd tracks off to the right are industries, and I will be adding a diding oposite the drill track to facilitate a citrus packing house.
Click for a bigger/readable view.
When designing there are many things to consider, take notice and your experience will be a good operating yard that operates indipendently of the mainline.
John
You didn't say what gauge you are modeling. I modeled the NS Earnest Norris Yard in Irondale, AL. Money is going to be one of the items you need to think about. I model N-scale. The entire yard area covers 24 ft by 3 ft.
I have 12 tracks in the Hump yard, 3 tracks departing Eastbound, 3 tracks departing Westbound, and 3 tracks arrival. I also have fueling, engine house, car repair. I also have a drill track on both ends of the yard. My main line parrallels the yard. I have not finished putting in buildings but the track is all laid.
Craig
The photo was taken to show off the bridge but "Whats in my yard items are in bold" .... Just out of the picture to the left is the service track for the commisary, REA (see lower photo), other railroad's express facility, and "back door" to Union Station. The passenger car shop is going to be on the one track to the far left seen under the bridge (under the cab of the red dump truck).
Then From left to right is:A small coach yard (three tracks)The coach yard entry track, with a pocket track to spot the coach switcher on (an Alco S2 is sitting there at the moment).The main line. One can see the turnout branching to the lower left which is to the passenger station mentioned above. Looking under the bridge just past it is the turnout for the "wye". In the background along the top of the photo one can see local "in yard" industries.The departure track (crosses over to the main as well as continuing).The drill track (if one looks just past the bridge one can see where it crosses over to the departure track - thus being the yard lead from that point on). So yes, one has to cross the drill track to get a loco from the loco facilities to the passenger station.Coming off the drill track (back toward the camera) is another crossover (the important one) to the departure track, the classification yard ladder proper (8 tracks), the arrival track (the one with the Kadee magnet uncoupler), the caboose track, and the ladder bypass track to the diesel locomotive servicing facilities.You can then see the diesel servicing/maintenance facilites themselves (three tracks).Then finally to the far right is the diesel facilities service track (w/2 tanks and a covered hopper).
As usual, click the images to enlarge.
Railway Express Agency Building behind the end of the Union Station passenger platform.
My layout has both passenger and freight yards. The passenger facilities consist of a depot track, and three coach tracks, with their own lead, so as not to interfere with freight operations. Through passenger trains use the mainline side of the platforms, and originating and terminating trains use the depot side. The REA building is right nearby the passenger depot.
The freight operation has it's own long lead, to allow switching long cuts of cars, without fouling the mainline. It has six tracks, and a runaround track, with a caboose track and engine facilities off the runaround track. The freight yard is double ended.