The staging yard isn;t really intended to be switched, simply to hold rolling stock til its turn ‘on stage’…trains arrive from the rest of the railroad where the locomotives are turned and serviced and the cars distributed amongst the local industries or the branchline, then the appropriate train is rebuilt for departure back into staging…
"The staging yard isn’t really intended to be switched, simply to hold rolling stock til its turn ‘on stage’ "
Right, I believe you. No, really, I do. Honest, it won’t ever happen. Well, maybe, sometime.
Those boxcabs are going to need to stretch their legs.
Heheheheh I intend on using the boxcabs as the Cassville Yard engines with 0-6-0T No2 in reserve. That also gives me a reason ro ship in a company service trank care of diseal fuel every now and then to park on the switcher pocket…
So. Bart…what changes will you be making to this pike of yours, with the new ideas you have for 2007 ?
Geeeze how didja know Fred? I’ve decided that I really don;t have enough rolling stock to justify a large yard…and not enough industry to justify the rolling stock fleet if I did! So I think this summer I’m gonna build a coal tipple over two or three tracks in the yard. The stub tack closest to the edge will be for incoming supplies and waste loading…the next two tracks for loading various grades of ‘black diamonds’ int the hoppers…the other tracks used for making and breaking trains.
There are two turnouts that lead off the layout, so a bit of the lumbering industry might rear its head…perhaps even a second mining location…Who knows!!!