You could put a train shed over it with a plexiglas roof like this guy
builds:
http://www.bridgeboss.com/
Ken
On 4/24/2017 4:37 PM, William Robertson wrote:
Seems like we are talking about spending alot of money on a part of the layout that the public can not see and enjoy. Can we install plexiglass so the public can enjoy what is going on down below ?
The public needs to enjoy watching a train pull into the station, enjoy all the station sound effects of arriving & departing trains and then watch the train pull out with all the sounds included in some of our engines.
Bill
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 8:43 AM, Redacted sender wstroheck for DMARC <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I like this much better also. This is more like what I thought was
planned for this project. We'll need to work out the details and
decide on the overall length of the modules, (and how to match up
the other side of the layout), but it looks great.
Walt
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Very nice, Ken. I like it.
On 04/21/17, Ken Young<kanawha72@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:kanawha72@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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
