09-17-2012, 04:59 PM
What kind of place are you modeling? What era? What is the yard supposed to do? Any prototype inspiration?
Those 43 inches of Z (1:220) scale is roughly the equivalent of a 9 foot long yard in H0 scale. Or a yard a little less than 800 feet (about 250 meters) long in real life. That is not a big yard.
That's more the size of a small auxiliary yard (a place where cars can be stashed temporarily during switching, or a few cars be left for another train) - say this one in Menasha, Wisconsin (http://binged.it/NB3Skj) more than a place which has a dedicated caboose track, engine service etc - unless you are modeling a small short line.
But it comes down to what you want to model.
Smile,
Stein
Those 43 inches of Z (1:220) scale is roughly the equivalent of a 9 foot long yard in H0 scale. Or a yard a little less than 800 feet (about 250 meters) long in real life. That is not a big yard.
That's more the size of a small auxiliary yard (a place where cars can be stashed temporarily during switching, or a few cars be left for another train) - say this one in Menasha, Wisconsin (http://binged.it/NB3Skj) more than a place which has a dedicated caboose track, engine service etc - unless you are modeling a small short line.
But it comes down to what you want to model.
Smile,
Stein