Turnouts to the lower yard
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The next section of track consists of a couple more curvy turnouts. As seen in the legend above these two turnouts lead into the lower part of the yard. At this location a traveling crane was used to transfer freight from railcars onto trucks.
Here it is in context…
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Engine House Lead
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With the uber-complex triple turnout complete, I move onto the next section of trackwork, the two curved turnouts leading into the engine house. From these turnouts the engine crawled (literally) over other turnouts into the engine house by means of temporary rails placed on top of the trackwork.
I will attempt to model this feature using a small piece of larger rail notched out to fit in place, but have not yet tried to see if this will work. If I can’t get it to work I will simply leave it off.
While it isn’t as cool as the first piece, it isn’t without its charm. The first turnout is both straight and curved in that it starts to curve after the switch points. The second turnout is a curved wye, and is about a #2 with the right hand route ending where the removable rails would be placed to cross over the other trackwork.
These are some tight curves! About 14 1/2″. The equipment that was run here, and that I will be using will all be able to handle these.
Since the closure rails are so short on a turnout as small as these I will likely cut them off and hinge them when I install the trackwork in place, but for now I have them soldered to the throwbars.
This section was joined onto the first piece with rail joiners to keep everything aligned.
On to Next Section
-Tim
Sure doesn’t look like this out there today!
I’ll admit it, I’m a winter person. I like winter, I look forward to snow and ice and I hate the hot, muggy 37 degree days of July. That being said, I sure could use a bit of warm sunny weather with some green in it!
-Tim
