I'm just throwing some ideas out here, but here's another variation on a
pull through yard under the station. Still 18' of modules but reduced
the width to 36". In order for the switches not to land on the module
joints the outer modules are 6'-6 and the center module is 5'. Reading
from bottom to top:
* Tracks 1 & 2 are the mains
* Track 3 has about 11' of storage (6- 21" scale length cars)
* Track 4 has about 9' of storage (Maybe 5-21" scale length cars)
* Track 5 has about 7' of storage ( 3 1/2 - 21" scale length cars)
* Track 6 is a runaround track. I figure to get the most cars under
the station you would pull in, decouple the engine, back it up to
the runaround track and park it in one of the stub end sidings. When
you want to pull the train out you simply take the engine out and
couple back up to the train. You could also use the stub tracks for
express or RPO cars.
Of course you can get more 15" or 18" cars into the yard. I was just
looking at worst case. Again I'm using Atlas switches. I think Ross
switches will cut down the distance between tracks about 1/2".
Ken
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