I think the ability to view the trains in the station would depend on the type
of station. If a structure like Broad Street Station and corresponding
platforms, then you have good views of the trains in the station; if like Main
Street, then a train shed would be with glass roof would be prudent to have
good views of the trains in the station.
Bill M.
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John Crockett (Redacted sender "jctrainman" for DMARC)
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Subject: [rc3r] Re: : Train Station Modules
If the tracks are going to be under the station, why do we need a shed? Not
saying it wouldn't look nice, but . . .
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From: tlg225ccr94 <tlg225ccr94@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: rc3r <rc3r@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mon, Apr 24, 2017 7:47 pm
Subject: [rc3r] Re: : Train Station Modules
Bob Buehler does/did have a beautiful Weaver brass train shed.....
On 04/24/17, Ken Young<kanawha72@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 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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Sent: Sun, Apr 23, 2017 5:08 pm
Subject: [rc3r] : Train Station Modules
Very nice, Ken. I like it.
On 04/21/17, Ken Young<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
