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bando2001
Changes, Changes
Moving the sidings around and simplifying the engine service in Buckley Yard increases running and swtching opportunities.
1. If mainline operation is run clockwise, the two teeny yards are both trailing point, ready made for pick ups and set outs using road engines. A simple and efficient way to generate station to station traffic.
2. Since pickups and setouts are made from the head end, engine changes can also be made as part of the way switching process.
3. There is no need to drop the entire train unless you want to. By dropping partial blocks of cars, the number of through trains can be doubled on this small railroad.
4. Engine changes allow the use of 2 or 3 road engines on a small railroad.
5. A passenger train can bob in and out of the passing track and the depot tracks. Short cars and another locomotive.
6. There is no need for a runaround track to deal with facing point spurs when you backswitch. Along with a switcher for each yard, a third switcher can float over the line in a counterclockwise direction to handle this traffic. This engine pulls down from the yard throat and the yard engine tacks on the cars. This train does its switching and then returns to its origin. The yard engine picks up the inbound cars and the floater moves on. In modern days real railroads and DCC allow for double ended switching where both locomotives work the way freight.
7. The reason Buckley yard has such a big engine facility is that this railroad, operated as described above, requires 2 or 3 road engines, 1 passsenger engine, and 3 switchers, 6 or 7 locomotives. Turning facilities are not required due to the directional nature of traffic,
bando2001
Changes, Changes
Moving the sidings around and simplifying the engine service in Buckley Yard increases running and swtching opportunities.
1. If mainline operation is run clockwise, the two teeny yards are both trailing point, ready made for pick ups and set outs using road engines. A simple and efficient way to generate station to station traffic.
2. Since pickups and setouts are made from the head end, engine changes can also be made as part of the way switching process.
3. There is no need to drop the entire train unless you want to. By dropping partial blocks of cars, the number of through trains can be doubled on this small railroad.
4. Engine changes allow the use of 2 or 3 road engines on a small railroad.
5. A passenger train can bob in and out of the passing track and the depot tracks. Short cars and another locomotive.
6. There is no need for a runaround track to deal with facing point spurs when you backswitch. Along with a switcher for each yard, a third switcher can float over the line in a counterclockwise direction to handle this traffic. This engine pulls down from the yard throat and the yard engine tacks on the cars. This train does its switching and then returns to its origin. The yard engine picks up the inbound cars and the floater moves on. In modern days real railroads and DCC allow for double ended switching where both locomotives work the way freight.
7. The reason Buckley yard has such a big engine facility is that this railroad, operated as described above, requires 2 or 3 road engines, 1 passsenger engine, and 3 switchers, 6 or 7 locomotives. Turning facilities are not required due to the directional nature of traffic,