09-22-2012, 03:39 AM
Hi Harry --
We discussed the Jack Gutsch yard from his Minneapolis and St. Louis layout:
![[Image: gutsch03.jpg]](http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/pp124/steinjr_1965/forum/gutsch03.jpg)
How about combining the double ended yard with some industry spots right off the yard - say something like this:
![[Image: harry02_zpsf610daa4.jpg]](http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/pp124/steinjr_1965/forum/harry02_zpsf610daa4.jpg)
This last one has five yard tracks - of which one (track 4) is single ended. Even if you use the shortest double ended track as a caboose track, you still have four yard tracks. Total yard capacity (when 80% full) is about 24 forty foot cars - or about the equivalent of three staging track length trains.
I've tried to draw the local industries (the factory and team track) so they will be switched from the left end - while most trains will arrive and depart from the right end of the yard. That also makes it possible to e.g. split tracks 2 and 5, so the left end of the track holds cars for the local industries during switching, while the right end of the tracks hold cars being sorted for outbound trains.
Smile,
Stein
We discussed the Jack Gutsch yard from his Minneapolis and St. Louis layout:
How about combining the double ended yard with some industry spots right off the yard - say something like this:
This last one has five yard tracks - of which one (track 4) is single ended. Even if you use the shortest double ended track as a caboose track, you still have four yard tracks. Total yard capacity (when 80% full) is about 24 forty foot cars - or about the equivalent of three staging track length trains.
I've tried to draw the local industries (the factory and team track) so they will be switched from the left end - while most trains will arrive and depart from the right end of the yard. That also makes it possible to e.g. split tracks 2 and 5, so the left end of the track holds cars for the local industries during switching, while the right end of the tracks hold cars being sorted for outbound trains.
Smile,
Stein