12-20-2009, 12:23 PM
faraway Wrote:The new partial track plan looks good. I did not understand the implication of the section boundaries. Do you plan to have some kind of modules? It looks very solid on the pictures.
Yes, the layout is made from 6 sections. Section 5 (the corner by the chimney in the upper right hand corner) is an L shaped area from 22.5" to the left of the smokestack to the other red line. I don't want to put turnouts in where they cross section boundaries. The curved turnout for a longer yard along the front of the warehouse district would cross such a boundary. But that could always be fixed in some way, with some creative use of turnouts.
Not sure whether I want to do that, though. Looking at both of the last two plans, I for some reason feel more tempted to a team track setup than to do a three track yard in that area. Obviously there must be some other reason than "yard tracks too short" that make me feel that things are too cramped with a yard along the front of the warehouse district.
I'll sleep on it and see how I feel about doing a larger yard along the front of the warehouse district tomorrow
Quote:The new tanks are so small on the new layout. May be they would be fine for a small oil dealer at the country side but how does that fit into into an industrial area? I really don't know. May be you need to make a real life test with some dummy (glass, bottle etc.) so see if they are to cute to be realistic.
No, I quite agree with you. It would be too cramped with tanks of a reasonable size there. If I keep a track designated the "tank terminal track", then I would have to model it has having just some kind of rack with pipes for filling RR tank cars from tanks that are off the layout (maybe off to the right - towards the door).
One could just postulate that the tank barges would be unloaded through pipes that run under the tracks and over to the storage tanks off to the right, or some such thing.
But the type of facility is easy enough to change, if desired. I'll think about it some more before making a decision here.
Thank you for your help!
Smile,
Stein