Hello!
I made this layout for someone who asked me for one. the first one is the origninal, but the second one has a round house, minus one industry. i admittedly know little about roundhouses and turn tables. they have extra tracks outside the round house, but i don't know their purpose. are they there to just have out door storage?
If anyone needs a largers picture of the yard (its hard for even for me to see the tracks after i resized it for posting) just say.
It was basicly designed for a modern theme, and some passenger operations, continuous running, with a yard and switching. there is an aisle in the middle, and the controls would be placed at the end.
The major industry is an oil refinery, moving loaded oil cars and replaceing them with empties, and placeing full cars or oil additives on the other track. All buildings reperesnt Walther's models in this section.
bellow that there is a small industrial area, that could be change in configuration to allow more space for a "town" in between there and the oil refinery. There is an ADM grain elevator, and random industry, and American Hardware Supply.
On the "modern" layout, there is one more spur that would go to Peterson's tools and specialties, but on the Round House version, its ommitted to make space for the roundhouse.
The yard has 4 seperate sorting tracks, and there is an Arrival/ departure track. It also has a general servicing area boxed in by blue. ( this can be changed to better suite whatever models are used) and either a 2 stall engine house (like PIkeStuff's) or an Atlas Roundhouse and Turn table.
You should be able to run a Passenger train and a Freight train on this layout with little obstuction, except for when useing the run around on the top of the layout by the oil refinery. if the freight train is moving to the other side of the train, then it blocks the mainline. Then again, it can add a challenge to the layout. either way, it would be difficult in that space to add another passing track. On the modern one, the Peterson tool a specialties might cause more blockage, but that can be left out.
Whats your opinions?
Chris
I made this layout for someone who asked me for one. the first one is the origninal, but the second one has a round house, minus one industry. i admittedly know little about roundhouses and turn tables. they have extra tracks outside the round house, but i don't know their purpose. are they there to just have out door storage?
If anyone needs a largers picture of the yard (its hard for even for me to see the tracks after i resized it for posting) just say.
It was basicly designed for a modern theme, and some passenger operations, continuous running, with a yard and switching. there is an aisle in the middle, and the controls would be placed at the end.
The major industry is an oil refinery, moving loaded oil cars and replaceing them with empties, and placeing full cars or oil additives on the other track. All buildings reperesnt Walther's models in this section.
bellow that there is a small industrial area, that could be change in configuration to allow more space for a "town" in between there and the oil refinery. There is an ADM grain elevator, and random industry, and American Hardware Supply.
On the "modern" layout, there is one more spur that would go to Peterson's tools and specialties, but on the Round House version, its ommitted to make space for the roundhouse.
The yard has 4 seperate sorting tracks, and there is an Arrival/ departure track. It also has a general servicing area boxed in by blue. ( this can be changed to better suite whatever models are used) and either a 2 stall engine house (like PIkeStuff's) or an Atlas Roundhouse and Turn table.
You should be able to run a Passenger train and a Freight train on this layout with little obstuction, except for when useing the run around on the top of the layout by the oil refinery. if the freight train is moving to the other side of the train, then it blocks the mainline. Then again, it can add a challenge to the layout. either way, it would be difficult in that space to add another passing track. On the modern one, the Peterson tool a specialties might cause more blockage, but that can be left out.
Whats your opinions?
Chris
