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Post by markm on Jun 21, 2016 21:56:15 GMT -5
Dave, My questions to you are where? when? what road? There are a lot of possibilities I can think of. If you will run an RDC across the back, it seems to me that the double main at the top should be a passenger/freight station with the turnout on the right running straight into an industrial area with a freight spur running behind the station. I'd also give some thought to rotating the layout 180 making the station area the foreground. Perhaps something like: The spurs on the lower right to me would make good storage tracks and an indication of a yard in background. Mark
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Post by dave on Jun 22, 2016 7:31:06 GMT -5
Mark,
As of now, my era is transition with mostly CB&Q. Eventually, I will be also doing BN and early BNSF. I like the idea of rotating everything 180 degrees. I see you drew in a double crossover; I was trying to get away with only using two turnouts to make a single crossover but perhaps you are right about it. I will rotate it, make a few changes and post another picture tonight. Thanks again.
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Post by emaley on Jun 22, 2016 8:12:47 GMT -5
For what it's worth, I have one of the new double crossovers and it has worked flawlessly. I have run through it forwards, backwards and fast and slow and no issues with any loco or rolling stock.
Trey
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Post by markm on Jun 22, 2016 9:08:12 GMT -5
Dave, Yeah I forgot to mention the double crossover. If you add a terminal facility you want to be able to get trains from both main lines to the freight facility and any industrial spurs. While it's good to know that Trey has had such good results with one, you really only need to have the double crossover functionality and can do it with distributed turnouts. Also if you are modelling transition era, you want a way for locomotives from both directions to get to a water stand. BTW: there is a great transition-era image of the double crossover in the July 2016 MR page 40. Still in the transition era many trackside industries relied on the railroad for both receiving raw materials and shipping finished goods. You might want to model one such industry. It can be a lot of fun moving freight cars for drop off and pickup around a factory: Mark
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Post by markm on Aug 1, 2016 22:20:35 GMT -5
Dave, You might want to look at the "Central Maine RR" described in the September issue of MR. The layout is similar to what you are working on, but the important part are the descriptions of why he did what he did.
Mark
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