06-13-2009, 02:05 PM
OH, and I should mention, if you are still confused, just turn the whole drawing to the left in order to orient it with the room as drawn previously. It's just easier to sketch with the paper horizontal than vertical.
Here's another traffic flow scenario. Instead of traveling past town A into the tunnel before stopping at station A, trains could stop at A then the engine would need to run around the train or shove it up hill past B into C. This would free up that hidden loop track under C to be a single staging track representing a branch or other route on the system.
A train could originate there heading out under the bridge into A, then head toward the yard. After swapping freight cars or pausing at the passenger station (servicing the engine and turning the train, naturally) it would head out and return the way it came into that staging.
Same can be done with the hidden grade along the wall, only here I'd stage a Big Tujunga Lumber Company train, maybe even dedicate a siding at C just for a few interchange cars. Mostly finished hardwood lumber destined to become fine furniture, logging supplies and other goods headed back to the logging communities.
I had drawn in a couple spots for sidings, but by far not the only ones. And I've got a yard design that I need to clean up before I post.
Galen
Here's another traffic flow scenario. Instead of traveling past town A into the tunnel before stopping at station A, trains could stop at A then the engine would need to run around the train or shove it up hill past B into C. This would free up that hidden loop track under C to be a single staging track representing a branch or other route on the system.
A train could originate there heading out under the bridge into A, then head toward the yard. After swapping freight cars or pausing at the passenger station (servicing the engine and turning the train, naturally) it would head out and return the way it came into that staging.
Same can be done with the hidden grade along the wall, only here I'd stage a Big Tujunga Lumber Company train, maybe even dedicate a siding at C just for a few interchange cars. Mostly finished hardwood lumber destined to become fine furniture, logging supplies and other goods headed back to the logging communities.
I had drawn in a couple spots for sidings, but by far not the only ones. And I've got a yard design that I need to clean up before I post.
Galen
I may not be a rivet counter, but I sure do like rivets!