How to incorporate switch yard and round table.

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Tdreabe

Discussion Starter · 20 d ago

If you read my signature, you'll appreciate that my plans are never set until they're built. Even then plans change.

I built my mainline last summer and will be laying the parallel track in the next few weeks. For the short term I will stick with the two lines.

This link is the build log for where I am so far.

Beginning my Outdoor Empire. A Raised Steam layout.

I am expecting(Hoping) to get my first large engine this year when Accucraft makes deliveries of the C-18. As those engines will require more space than my indoor loop will allow, I had better snatch up that permitted land my wife agreed to before I do something to upset her. Last year I...

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I am starting to plan my next phase of construction.
My original plan would have a resemblance to this drawing.

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I have since put more thought into the layout, especially after seeing the current difficulty in getting to the inside of the layout to follow the trains around the loop.
I currently have no difficulty hopping over the structure. But I want the layout to be accessible and inviting to hobbyists of all levels of mobility, and to hedge against any possibility of my future mobility being limited.

I have drawn this possibly and would like input from others.

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Greg Elmassian

· #7 · 18 d ago

This may be beyond what you want, but here is a page on how to design a yard, and the important components.

For example, your switching leads are probably too short. For live steam, you want to be sure switching operations do not foul the main lines.

Designing a yard

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Greg