Greg@mnrr
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On my CM&N Railroad I have a small yard that's off a long yard entrance lead. The yard has four main tracks that will receive cars that are in transit and are being separated according to their destinations. There is one problem with the yard and its that the hidden under track and above track Kadee uncouplers are some what, but not impossible to locate to spot a car over for uncoupling. Some taller scenery ridges and buildings help hide the uncouplers from view.
One uncoupler at the entrance to the yard tracks "could" service three of the four yard tracks, but there a long distance to shove the cars into their respective tracks without the possiblility of the cars re-coupling.
Chet also known as "Montanan" on the Forum once described that on his club layout, helper locomotives had their front coupler modified so they could push and really never couple to the last car of the train the the locomotive was acting as a helper. Once over the hill the helper locomotives just backed off form the train they were pushing.
This gave me the idea that perhaps I could dedicate an engine as the switcher for this yard and use the locomotive to push cars into their assigned tracks. Another locomotive could "drop" the cars on the yard entrance lead and then be replaced by the yard switcher. The yard switcher could spot cars in three out of the four yard tracks without trouble.
Does this like it would work in a reasonable manner? This might just add some additional work for the yard switcher in another wise difficult situation.
I watch switching at the UP Butler yard and some switching moves use a lot of different movements to achieve.
Thanks.
Greg
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One uncoupler at the entrance to the yard tracks "could" service three of the four yard tracks, but there a long distance to shove the cars into their respective tracks without the possiblility of the cars re-coupling.
Chet also known as "Montanan" on the Forum once described that on his club layout, helper locomotives had their front coupler modified so they could push and really never couple to the last car of the train the the locomotive was acting as a helper. Once over the hill the helper locomotives just backed off form the train they were pushing.
This gave me the idea that perhaps I could dedicate an engine as the switcher for this yard and use the locomotive to push cars into their assigned tracks. Another locomotive could "drop" the cars on the yard entrance lead and then be replaced by the yard switcher. The yard switcher could spot cars in three out of the four yard tracks without trouble.
Does this like it would work in a reasonable manner? This might just add some additional work for the yard switcher in another wise difficult situation.
I watch switching at the UP Butler yard and some switching moves use a lot of different movements to achieve.
Thanks.
Greg
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