Smoke
Southern Railway lives on
I know some of you over here have to know something about this.
We just moved into a new house and as a result I now have my own room, and am planning the layout. I don't have all that much space but I do have enough. My room is 21' X 12' and I am going to use two of the walls. I have 21' of one wall and 12' of the adjoining wall. I was thinking I could have a Operating Hump yard along the 12' wall.
l-this is the 12' wall
l
l
l
l
l
-------------------------the 21' wall
First of all how would I design a hump yard? How many tracks should\could have? What is the grade from the "hump" to the tracks? Would I have to use certain couplers, or could I use kadee's/Sergeants? How would I design the rest of the layout around the hump yard so that it would be a part of the operations?
Am I nuts or can I get this to work?
-Smoke
We just moved into a new house and as a result I now have my own room, and am planning the layout. I don't have all that much space but I do have enough. My room is 21' X 12' and I am going to use two of the walls. I have 21' of one wall and 12' of the adjoining wall. I was thinking I could have a Operating Hump yard along the 12' wall.
l-this is the 12' wall
l
l
l
l
l
-------------------------the 21' wall
First of all how would I design a hump yard? How many tracks should\could have? What is the grade from the "hump" to the tracks? Would I have to use certain couplers, or could I use kadee's/Sergeants? How would I design the rest of the layout around the hump yard so that it would be a part of the operations?
Am I nuts or can I get this to work?
-Smoke