06-20-2010, 12:32 AM
On a small layout like mine I understand the staging yard as a convenient kind of cassettes to get cars and engines on and off the scene.
The actual layout is more or less a switching layout to be feed with a short cut of cars to be delivered at various industries and to collect some cars to be picked up. That is the basic operation.
It is a pure technical question how I will get the engine with some cars into the industrial area and how I will get it out after switching.
My answer is a staging yard with four tracks and two short stub tracks. That provides a lazy way to have six engines with six cuts of cars at immediate access for a switching session.
ps. And yes, in case I am to tired to do switching it permits a run around I can watch end enjoy-
The actual layout is more or less a switching layout to be feed with a short cut of cars to be delivered at various industries and to collect some cars to be picked up. That is the basic operation.
It is a pure technical question how I will get the engine with some cars into the industrial area and how I will get it out after switching.
My answer is a staging yard with four tracks and two short stub tracks. That provides a lazy way to have six engines with six cuts of cars at immediate access for a switching session.
ps. And yes, in case I am to tired to do switching it permits a run around I can watch end enjoy-
Reinhard