11-17-2010, 06:04 PM
The new north yard is operation since more than a week and some nasty design flaws popped up.
- The hidden staging yard in the pier warehouse to hold two trains (max. 5 cars each) is unsatisfactory. Fiddle without any sight and only one track is not a useful staging yard
- The centered warehouse with large entries on both sides for the staging track was not well positioned and the black holes could not be hidden well
- The remaining track were not sufficient to form a yard with minimum capabilities to create trains
I solved that problem by moving one turnout and some trackage.
The staging track moved by 1" to the front and the warehouse lost 1" in depth. It fits now behind the last track left shifted. A new stub track completes the pier warehouse service tracks on the right.
In front of that are three tracks (2 both side connected one a long stub track) forming a (very) small yard to hold unused cars, create trains and receive cars coming back from the various industries.
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I did not cut the roof of the warehouse by 1" as I did with the base structure. It has now a long overhang but looks consistent. The prototype has a second lower mounted roof to protect loading and unloading. The main roof has only a small overhang. I will think about that during the next days.
The choice of locomotives used emerged again. The MP20C-3 PHL engines and the Genset are great models and match the prototype. But they are to long, to huge and to massive. They dominate a track and look awful in my tight curves. If I go back into the 90'th SW1500 of UP and SP have been on the scene and PHL did run SW1200. I am "playing around" with some UP SW1500 to test the visual impression. They are a much better choice for my small layout. A PHL Sw1200 might be base on a P2K Conrail SW1200. LAJ is still stuck with the CF-7 that does even with new motors not match Atlas and modern Athearn drives.
What kind of engines do you run on a small layout after 2000? The current "switchers" (GP60M, SD40...) are full blown road engines some years ago. The new Genset is not really helpful due to their excessive length from this point of view... It is somewhat frustrating.
- The hidden staging yard in the pier warehouse to hold two trains (max. 5 cars each) is unsatisfactory. Fiddle without any sight and only one track is not a useful staging yard
- The centered warehouse with large entries on both sides for the staging track was not well positioned and the black holes could not be hidden well
- The remaining track were not sufficient to form a yard with minimum capabilities to create trains
I solved that problem by moving one turnout and some trackage.
The staging track moved by 1" to the front and the warehouse lost 1" in depth. It fits now behind the last track left shifted. A new stub track completes the pier warehouse service tracks on the right.
In front of that are three tracks (2 both side connected one a long stub track) forming a (very) small yard to hold unused cars, create trains and receive cars coming back from the various industries.
I did not cut the roof of the warehouse by 1" as I did with the base structure. It has now a long overhang but looks consistent. The prototype has a second lower mounted roof to protect loading and unloading. The main roof has only a small overhang. I will think about that during the next days.
The choice of locomotives used emerged again. The MP20C-3 PHL engines and the Genset are great models and match the prototype. But they are to long, to huge and to massive. They dominate a track and look awful in my tight curves. If I go back into the 90'th SW1500 of UP and SP have been on the scene and PHL did run SW1200. I am "playing around" with some UP SW1500 to test the visual impression. They are a much better choice for my small layout. A PHL Sw1200 might be base on a P2K Conrail SW1200. LAJ is still stuck with the CF-7 that does even with new motors not match Atlas and modern Athearn drives.
What kind of engines do you run on a small layout after 2000? The current "switchers" (GP60M, SD40...) are full blown road engines some years ago. The new Genset is not really helpful due to their excessive length from this point of view... It is somewhat frustrating.
Reinhard