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Building a yard ladder -Slightly Off-Topic?
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ROBERT HULTMAN
Assuming the diverging tracks from the ladder turnouts run parallel to each other, the amount of straight track between one turnout's frog & the subsequent turnout's point rails would depend on the distance between track centers. In the US, back in the earlier days, maybe 40s-50s, the yard tracks were probably 13' on center, more modern yard design probably widens out the track center-to-center distance more than 13'. Bob Hultman in Brentwood TN
On Sunday, August 8, 2021, 01:33:04 PM CDT, <alynmar@...> wrote:
When building a yard ladder is it acceptable to place your turnouts end to end or should there be some track in between the turnouts, if so what would the recommended track length be in OO scale? Thank you for any suggestions. Alan |
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Scott H. Haycock
Prototype yard throats, as much as possible, were designed so all the switch stands were on the same side of the lead for personnel safety. The switcher would be 'faced' so that the engineer could see the ground crew operating the switch stands.
Scott Haycock
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True but to an extent. Look at all the proto yards that don't follow that rule. Especially when its a hump yard with the turnouts thrown by the tower operator. Or am I wrong? Sorry this is off topic, but I had to comment.
Morgan Bilbo, DCC since 8/18. Model PRR 1952. |
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Allan AE2V
As noted, this topic is 'off topic." The original question has been answered. Let's wrap it up and then I will delete the thread.
Thank you Allan Gartner Wiring for DCC |
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