Model Railroad Planning has a discussion on pinwheel ladders and it is also in the dec04 MR. This may be a design solution for my north staging yard . Has...
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chuckn37@...
May 1, 2005 3:11 pm
Interesting thread. Tenuous connection to layout design. But I've learned a lot form the various comments from you all. Tom Jones III writes (copied below)...
Much of the northeast corridor infrastructure is there ONLY because of high density commuter traffic. In some cases, very little freight is carried there. That...
... =========================== Actually the US attitude towards railroading could, from the freight transport standpoint, be considered vastly superior to...
Back in March Bill Hoshiko provided this link to a picture of a prototype Inglenook layout http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/billhko/album?.dir=/386a At the time I...
Hi Brian I've played with the idea. I love how they fit in certain situations. They can save space in a major way. I set up a test section with 4 curved peco...
Byron, I appreciate all the feedback you and others have given. I will do some doodling on paper, first, as you suggest and than on to CadRail again. Thanks...
Hi Brian: ... is also ... On the old SP, now UP railroad at Oxnard Calif., Coast Line, there is a pinwheel arrangement for the west end of the yard,...
Brain and all, I've designed a few pinwheel ladders that have been built and they seem to work very well. One of the things to take note of is where the...
... Bruce, The facility shown in that photo is the Lever Brothers Soap Factory on Holabird Ave, Baltimore MD. That photo was taken from the elevated highway...
Brian, I model N scale. I have used both Shinahara & Peco & Kato tracks. The biggest pinwheel I used was @ Nashville, TN N-trak @ Ardvarks Model Train Store in...
... Sometimes we use tricks to squeeze up yard ladders, especially by making compound ladders and pinwheel ladders, intending to lengthen the yard tracks....
... Sorry Mike, I only have a 12 x 16 foot space to work in, so every "trick" I can find will be used to maximise yard track length, including using a pinwheel...
I inadvertantly created a pinwheel lead on one end of my major yard as it was the only way it would fit. It uses curves and straight turnouts with a min...
Mike, I've always said the longest project on a model layout should be laying track & turnouts. In 1974 b4 the real good scale track came out I used Shinahora...
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Charlie Comstock
trains@...
May 2, 2005 8:58 pm
Ummmm.... I think the key here is the push to clearance operation. But given that a compound ladder will take less linear space than an equivalent simple...
To all who responded to my invitation to a layout planning open house on May 21 for my Northern Central Railroad I need your help. Dear old dad came to his...
... Working a compound ladder in a yard is *very* dangerous, and probably wouldn't be permitted today. I've seen one yard with a compound ladder (was it Taylor...
I think you might be right Charlie but I think proving it either way would require more math than I'm willing to do outside of work. :-) I don't think it...
... where ... switchstands ... =========================== Actually they are fairly common in the bowl yards of hump yards. The flat switching yard at Spring...
Does anyone know the formula (or where I can get it) for converting degrees of curvature of prototype curves to inches radius for various scales. Thanks in...
... Mark, Paul Mallory, through Carstens Publishing (Railroad Model Craftsman) put out a book on track planning which had this table among other neat ...
... (extended switch rods) ... Interestingly, the Soo yard at Ashland, WI had extended switch rods to switchstands located outside the ladder, but the...
... From: "Bill Kaufman" <whk58@...> ... ====================== That's about the minumum radius for an SD40-2 ..... without being coupled to any cars. ...
In a message dated 5/2/2005 7:46:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... Guy, I had responded that I would like to attend but since then I've found out that I will be...
