Hello all, I'm trying to get my head around building a small staging yard, benchwork is about two feet deep, by 15 feet long. Trying to use turnouts I have on...
Are you planning to have this piece as a future portion of a layout or module ? Start by drawing a straight line entering or exiting the layout. As a separate...
Are you sure you are building "staging"? If it is just staging, you are only building parallel storage tracks with an output to the visible main line. If it...
Dear Crew, Taking things furthur, if this is going to be an "active staging" or UK terminology "fiddleyard" (IE you "fiddle" the cars mid operating session,so...
Hi Proff. and all: Many years ago I wrote an article for NARROW LINES -the magazine of the &mm Narrow gauge Association- about building a vertical feeddle...
I have been working on my small HO Logging Community and even though it's on a board 57" x 39" I have found that I had to add another 33" x 33" square to add...
What aspect of the yard is giving you trouble? arrangement of the turnouts? track spacing? automatic routing of trains? At it's simplest, a staging yard would...
The main part that was giving me trouble was just plain getting started on it! After several personal reply emails, and several suggestions from this and...
Hi Not my cup of tea, but I think this layout has definite potential. Well done! DIane Kivi ... From: David Bromage <david@...> ...
Greetings all, I joined this group a long time ago but I've only been an occasional lurker. Now I'd like to get a little more involved and gain the benefits of...
Kevin. A very nice layout. I might copy some features. Thanks for the pictures. Frank.Frank Edgcombe Associate Professor and Librarian Harvey Library,...
Bil: With a little delay but the drawings for your portable layout box are ready. There are a lot of photos of the 3D drawing I've made. The pieces are colour...
Kevin, The layout design is a good one but I have one small suggestion -- consider changing the crossing in the lower (front?) yard with a double-slip switch....
Matt, To open a discussion, I agree the track plan looks interesting, but I'll disagree with the inclusion of a double slip switch ! In the economics of a...
In tight situations the use of single and double slips is quite acceptable. In an Amercican context, the Hoboken Shore Railroad had a yard with an intermediary...
Plaza Constitución station in Buenos Aires, Argentina: <http://www.treneshoy.com.ar/galeria/details.php?image_id=1229> I have never heard of any derailment or...
http://www.treneshoy.com.ar/galeria/details.php?image_id=169 Even better - look, a double-slip on industrial trackage! Cheers NB ... [Non-text portions of this...
Hi, The fence obscures this switch ! Even placement of the high switch stands do not add enough information. This appears to be two switches with points very...
The switch stand positions clearly indicate a double slip. If it was two conventional switches, the stands would be in nearly the same location, at the...
In the interests of balance and not wishing to offend anyone :-) I would say - use a double slip if you want. This is a group on Small Layout Design and the...
Bob, Interesting points and well taken. Being both a former civil engineer with some railroad track experience and a long-time modeler I have to say that the...
Not only is a double slip, but also is a newly laid one!!! Those switch stands don't follow Ferrocarriles Argentinos standards so that track was probably laid...
You have many fine photos. Very much enjoy looking through them. Ed Kozlowsky ... From: Diego De Bunder <diegodebunder@...> Subject:...
Hi Daniel. If you would please can you e-mail them to me? I can create a combined album afterwards showing the images from you along with the ones showing the...
Hello, I saw a fabulous HOe scale kitchen-table-sized layout at a local railroad show, called Weroni Peninsula. There was so much to see in such a small area...
There is a Dutch HO layout of about the same size that has plenty of animated figures and similar effects that I saw at the Glasgow MR exhibition a year or two...
... some ... resource ... Carl - there was an article in Model Rail a while back about animation - one of the suggestions featured a lass, pumping the handle...
Based on personal experience, slip switches have been satisfactory in HO scale, but problematic (read that as "a major pain") in N scale. The gaps in the...
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