We have not done much work on structures in the yard. The TT and base for the RH are present. Other than the floor for a machine shop, we just have track down.
Our focus has been on other areas of the layout. We use the yard mainly for switching.
Sue
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Suuuuue......meee liiiiiiiiikkkke!! I really like your layout, and especially the diamond to the turntable...that's eye-candy for me. Good crisp photo, too.
-Crandell
Although, I could use it as a classification or storage in transit yard, Lampson Yard is primarily a visible staging area:
Looking up the yard toward the ladder and yard office:
Looking down the yard away from the ladder and yard office. A Rix overpass camouflages where the tracks meet the wall:
Nick
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Two tracks; a drill and growing, we have a miles to go.
I like the recent pictures in the thread they look really good.
John
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Hmmm,
I don't have a yard yet, but here what I want to be in the yard (when I have it).
4 or 5 sidings for general storage with some hoppers and other general freights. Maybe some reefers for the apples grown in Pigeon Forge (If apples need reefers, which they don't). Then I'd like to have an engine shop next to it, and a roundhouse not far away.
Then some loco servicing tracks, with a double spout water tower (like the D&GRW one at Chama) and a 5-stall roundhouse. Oh, and lets not forget hmmm, a Mike or 2 to be in the stalls, as well as a Mountain, a 2-8-0, and a 4-6-0. The 2-8-8-2's will be in the 2 stall "Mallet House" next to the roundhouse.
Then lets not forget the old 0-8-0 I bought today at the club's sale (An old Aristo Craft HO piece, will be re-painted and named "Maude", and if someone can, it will have a DCC Digitrax decoder in it) kicking a cut of hoppers dropped off from a locomotive (maybe the 2-6-6-2) from the mine branch.
Oh, and the HOn3 interchange with the Pigeon River Railroad (a play on of the Pigeon River and Little River Railroad, which ran through the smokies, but didn't last long) serviced by a Blackstone K-27 and (if Blackstone makes these eventually) an ex-EBT #17 Mikado, ex-White Pass #70 Mikado, or Ex-White Pass #192 Mikado.
I thought it would be fun to say in my fictional history, "while the SMC prospered, the LRR failed in the year 1964". The line fell into disrepair, but a short section of the loop from just short of the terminus and a few miles up the mountains (with a new turn loop) was restored, along with the 2 ex-White Pass 2-8-2's for the Rebel Railroad, which over time became Gold Ruch Junction, Silver Dollar City, and the present day Dollywood.
LOL. I sure want alot.
Cheese
Nick! :)
Thanks, Crandell.
I was at a wedding yesterday that was 3 hours away so I did not even turn the computer on until now. Just stopped in for a quick peek. Looks like everyone has been busy. I should update the photo of the yard. Maybe on Thursday.
Here's the south end of mine.
Yard plan is in Layout Plan below sig.
Regards,
Tom
You can see mine on my website [in sig]. However most of it is just paper buildings till I get to it [working on my bridges just now].
Basically I will have a roundhouse, turntable, coal tower, water tower, ash pit and rip track. That's about it. Just a small one for my small RR. :D