2'x15' yard ideas...
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Haha! Glad to see you used my advice err I mean dang thats horrible!! lol but that does make for a really cool scenery piece. I look forward to seeing what you make of it
If you went a bit wider, you could make a cool country/mountain rock face along the wall, or put in some cool scenery.
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SilverBlade
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This discussion has moved well beyond the planning stage but I thought I'd throw this in any way. This is an N scale yard I drew up to add to my door layout. But make each square 2 feet and you have a yard that would fit very nicely in your space (with some minor modifications).
You can still have a double ended yard and fill the dead space on the ends up with an array of spurs. And you can address the shorting yard tracks by orienting both ends of your ladders in the same direction ( / / ) instead of using opposing directions ( / \ ).
This yard was designed for a switching engine to build and tear down trains for two mainline operators.
Lanes 1 & 4 are kept empty to build consists in.
Lanes 2, 3, & 5 - 8 are for storage. I figure about 50 - 75 cars will fit in there depending on type (probably not as many if we're talking '89 auto decks).
Lanes 10 & 11 for cabooses or cars used less often
Lane 9 is a pass through track
Lanes 12 - 14 are your engine parks (figure 8 - 10 locomotives)
All this gives you a good mix of storage and function. It'll be many moons before I ever get to build it (I figure at least $800 in cost) but this is my plan.
You can still have a double ended yard and fill the dead space on the ends up with an array of spurs. And you can address the shorting yard tracks by orienting both ends of your ladders in the same direction ( / / ) instead of using opposing directions ( / \ ).
This yard was designed for a switching engine to build and tear down trains for two mainline operators.
Lanes 1 & 4 are kept empty to build consists in.
Lanes 2, 3, & 5 - 8 are for storage. I figure about 50 - 75 cars will fit in there depending on type (probably not as many if we're talking '89 auto decks).
Lanes 10 & 11 for cabooses or cars used less often
Lane 9 is a pass through track
Lanes 12 - 14 are your engine parks (figure 8 - 10 locomotives)
All this gives you a good mix of storage and function. It'll be many moons before I ever get to build it (I figure at least $800 in cost) but this is my plan.
CbarM
HO all the way!
Well that is the one thing I wanted to do differenty was to have the main swing across to the other side so I could have all my yard tracks the same length like you have there, but space wouldnt allow it. I built this with no trackplan to follow or mull over besides what I was thinking and I wanted to have minimum 28" radius curves, but with the space restraints at one end, it ended up being 24.5" R and the other end had to run along the wall so as to not disrupt activities on the other side of the wall...hope this might it explaine it some...
CbarM
HO all the way!
Well I looked into taking the panels out this morning n no can do...they were put in before the flooring and it is nailed to the interior frame below the surface plywood that the carpet underlay is on and the same with the top...it looks like the wall was panelled first and then the slopes of the roof after...
I guess somebody knew this might be a train room someday and decided not to make it easy for a renter to do it haha...off to the extremely limited (HO section smaller then my bathroom) train store I go...
I guess somebody knew this might be a train room someday and decided not to make it easy for a renter to do it haha...off to the extremely limited (HO section smaller then my bathroom) train store I go...
CbarM
HO all the way!
HOtrainfan - you JINXED it!!!
Well well, I guess I got jinxed here...came home from the train store n here is what I found. Looks like somebody busted into the place and decided to tear things up a bit. I cant believe my luck tho!! The culprit threw a 2x4 chunk against the wall and musta threw it hard...and it was EXACTLY where I needed to go thru the wall!!!!!!!!!! How about that????
Well well, I guess I got jinxed here...came home from the train store n here is what I found. Looks like somebody busted into the place and decided to tear things up a bit. I cant believe my luck tho!! The culprit threw a 2x4 chunk against the wall and musta threw it hard...and it was EXACTLY where I needed to go thru the wall!!!!!!!!!! How about that????
SilverBlade
Member
What can the landlord do? Keep your deposit? He was going to do that anyway.
LOL Don't even get me started! Just be glade you are HO and not in N scale.
LOL Don't even get me started! Just be glade you are HO and not in N scale.
Burlington Bob
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I wondered how long it would take!!
TRAINFAN9510
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Haha! Glad to see you used my advice err I mean dang thats horrible!! lol but that does make for a really cool scenery piece. I look forward to seeing what you make of it
TRAINFAN9510
Member
If you went a bit wider, you could make a cool country/mountain rock face along the wall, or put in some cool scenery.
TRAINFAN9510
Member
lol, well right now it is just 2, 2x5's bolted together since we have been trying to build all the other sections. We have been side tracked by lifes responsibilities lately (I know, it sucks right lol) But tomorrow we will be back to working on the train stuff and ill snap a few pics of what we have done. And you could always build a special shelf for your tv UNDER the train board, and sit on a creeper to watch it lol
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CbarM
HO all the way!
Other side of the wall!!!
Here is what I got done tonight...made 2 shelves n screwed em to the wall. The one against the wall is 2' long and is 10" at the widest and tapers down to 6". The other is a 8' x 6" strip and I have covered em with 1" pink foam n used Elmers white glue to make it stick...will see how it works.
Here is what I got done tonight...made 2 shelves n screwed em to the wall. The one against the wall is 2' long and is 10" at the widest and tapers down to 6". The other is a 8' x 6" strip and I have covered em with 1" pink foam n used Elmers white glue to make it stick...will see how it works.
CbarM
HO all the way!
Forgot to add this...I have been pretty excited about getting this side started and so here I have glued down my WS foam roadbed already with Elmers white glue...and then I temp. laid track to see how it would look with the crossover and the yard lead switch and then I just had to get a train out there!! The empty spot in the middle is purposely left out so I can model a small bridge there when I get around to doing scenery 
TRAINFAN9510
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Lookin good! I am in the process of cleaning up and organizing all of our stuff now. Quick question, the last pic in the last post, did you get those CSX and CSL intermodals together on ebay recently?
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