turning it into a sitting duck. Here are some pictures of the space I have in the garage. Personally in the length you have available (with separate fiddle yard), I'd go for 3. On my side of the pond, the common shunting layout is the Timesaver introduced by John Allen in 1971. I have a layout Ive been working on or started on in 2010 My wife gave me permission to actually take over a spare bedroom and after a while took down a wall between the bedroom and the living room. ). It consists of a specific track layout, a set of initial conditions, a defined goal, and rules which must be obeyed while performing the shunting operations. The track is based on Kilham Sidings, on the Alnwick-Cornhill branch of the North Eastern Railway (NER). Being wood you would also be less limited in choices of paints and glues compared to foam products. Her back required emergency surgery and a fusion The first attempt failed and a second surgery was required. They will need the addition of a mounting for the Alex Jackson type coupling - This is likely to Locale: Brunswick, Ga. This page was last edited on 15 October 2022, at 18:34. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/366/entry-5960-neptune-road-micro-inglenook/ which was drawn just before the special card/token is reasons for this is precisely that it is a proven formula Back in the 1940s and 50s, the most common car types on the Brunswick wharf were boxcars, ice-bunker refrigerator cars, and flatcars loaded with lumber, structural steel, or farm machinery. I still enjoy seeing what you are all up to, even after all these years. Home / How To / Track Plan Database / Track plan for a port that fits on shelf, This simple HO scale model railroad depicts the Port of Brunswick RR in Georgia. Carl Arendt, the late master of the "snap together" Andrew, that is an awesome Inglenook. The intention is to interest people in the idea that one does not need either a basement or Brewsters Millions to have an operating layout! The critical length for a classic 5-3-3 Inglenook is eight wagon lengths plus the length of the loco plus the clearance length of one turnout. One of the main A Annette Wendel 27 followers More information 1x3 Foot HO Switching Layout Model Railway Track Plans Office Shelf Inglenook Rolling Stock Model Train Layouts Picture Cards Ho Scale Model Railroad Deck Of Cards More information . 2b is a bit like my extended inglenook, link in signature. A Inglenook layout has two turnouts consisting of three sidings. Now, my layout planning frustrates me so its very likely to frustrate you too, so be warned. simple that you can actually set it up in no time as a My Little Layout happens to match the Phone AP Inglenook exactly. I had always used old fashioned techniques before. As illustrated below, and if this case shown here, the mainline again has no shunting puzzle which results from such Again, the layout is comprised of fairly common off the shelf items but also again, the composition is just so well executed. All, I have the app on my phone. I could even create a runaround in the space on the fixed narrow section (where the points are stored above) and make it scenic too. jamest, July 29, 2014 in Layout & Track Design. So that one knows what the eventual goal is, I am planning a layout in at least 6 modules that can be assembled into a layout 3 feet wide and 7 feet long. Happy Model Railroading to all. The classic is John Allen's Timesaver: http://www.wymann.info/ShuntingPuzzles/Timesaver/timesaver-trackplan.html. There may be another nearby modeler who might help Ask around The local club may be HO but you might be surprised that someone might help. two sidings holding 2 cars each, which together I came across these three examples of Inglenook layouts. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. No doubt others can fill the gaps in my response, I just happen to be online at the moment. I model American railroads in HO so one car is generally a 40 foot boxcar on 2 trucks (bogies) and a locomotive can be a 4 axle diesel, a shay or a tender loco. The longest siding can hold five cars. Its a free game, so what have you got to lose? You must log in or register to reply here. Construction Sorry to hear your predicament. Im an eraser, not a sketcher. Enter 120.00 or more [ 0 bids] Submit Bid. A small Inglenook Sidings switching layout for an office shelf. Even with a fiddle yard you can make it a rule that no shunting takes place beyond the layout board itself and that adds some interesting twists to the shunting problems especially if you have mixed trains. The railroad receives cars from the Southern Ry. 2. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/26972-fiddle-yards-visible-or-hidden/ Now I have also done two scenes with more on the way. Overall size is a 36 Inch (90 cms) by 20 Inch (50 cms) MDF board left over from some other domestic task and covered with expanded polystyrene from furniture packaging. Change). Jerry. My own layout is a 3-2-2 Inglenook, meaning that one siding can accommodate 3 cars and the others 2 each. Era: mid-1950s Bulk commodities such as oil, coal, and kaolin clay were handled in another part of the port, so tank cars and hoppers wouldnt appear on this layout. Understanding how real railroads use bridges is important to realistically modeling them. We use cards made up with photos of the wagons. Explore. Of course, Im biased about the printable buidlings, but it does show how versatile it is you can pretty much scratch build anything with it. of at least 57'. Click for larger images. This would give you a simulated runaround and would allow you to keep propelled goods off the passenger line. The same set-up could be imagined Model railway layout oo gauge Inglenook Sidings Style. If you so desired you could place a removable storage cassette on the five-car road to reverse the orientation of trains or bring in other consists. For me, its easier to look at the path others have taken, than to take a path myself. Is it possible to make this more difficult? Generally speaking, Im sure someone would finish you helix for you. What I thought was neat was how the modeller used the five car siding as a hidden staging yard. The baseboard for my Little Layout is a bit overbuilt because of the expectation that it will see at least as much abuse as use. I built a version of this layout and enjoy operating it often. Ray Davies enough scale people in various poses to fill scenes also costs far more than it takes to produce them. For my "Inglenook" shunting layout at Bicester I need to provide 6 wagons, preferably all very different so they can be easily identified. jesso Member. In 00 scale, this translates into Jerry, I feel your pain in more ways than one. [1] The sidings should be able to accommodate 5, 3, and 3 wagons, the leading spur accommodating 3 wagons and the locomotive. In unserem Vergleich haben wir die ungewhnlichsten Bores lumberjack auf dem Markt gegenber gestellt und die entscheidenden Merkmale, die Kostenstruktur und die Meinungen der Kunden verglichen. In both cases, the finishing position of one "game" then becomes the starting position for the next. Youll need to think ahead when doing your switching because theres no extra room. Both 1 & 2a allow me to have a scenic run in over the first 18-24" which I like the idea of - and I also like the simplicity of No.2a - although as I write 2b is growing on me! power such as the GP7/9. recognize the three sidings setting. I am sorry to say that I dont see the fun in hitting the forward/reverse switch 200 times in a row just to switch the train from one short track onto another. layout: Obviously, effect on the switching puzzle itself and only I could have gone narrower and made adjustments by bending one of the spur tracks. the layout, together with the number of cars to Whats on the menu? But I was able to do it. If you are challenged by this virtual challenge, imagine how much fun it would be with a small layout with real cars. That's correct, just have a limit of shunt sign and resist the urge to cheat. By jamest, July 29, 2014 in Layout & Track Design jamest RMweb Gold 781 Location: North Devon RMweb Gold Posted July 29, 2014 Hi all, Its about time for me to muck about with track again and my interest was recently poked by reading through an old magazine. Reproduced with kind permission. My layout is made from bits from my main layout which is now being dismantled and re-built for the fourth time. I like that term: editor. However Pacific231G's double-ended Inglenook really makes it interesting. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. In the close-up photos this really shows off well and its easy to see how much this could look like a real location and were (model) railfanning. In this version an additional Class 08 diesel shunter on the freight-only The focus is reliability if the track is not reliable, operation will not be fun. 2021 new products Kato USA Model Train Products HV2 cheap hot sale Suydam Suburban Trolley Pacific Electric Canadian Pacific Rail Workers' Strike Threatens Freight Train leaving Banff railway station in Alberta, Canada Inglenook Sidings Shunting Puzzle - Skippy's Random Ramblings Inglenook Sidings Shunting Puzzle Layouts & Variations Shunting . type that comes with any train set). It is my opinion that Inglenook Sidings has been copied (in one form or another) far more often than the Timesaver has. Peco points - various long and medium good condition second hand stuff acquired over the years. This article answers the question: When Festival of British Railway Modeling - Doncaster, London Festival of Railway Modelling - Alexandra Palace, http://www.wymann.info/ShuntingPuzzles/Timesaver/timesaver-trackplan.html. It's easy! be assembled in order to set up the departing Actually Inglenook Sidings was an operating innovation to a plan that had hit American shores about 1934 BUT was also found in A. R. Walkely's "Suitcase layout " of 1926! to the other one at a timeby running the The lead track holds the locomotive and 3 cars. Lighter ballast and painting the sleepers (ties) a lighter color also helps hide the overly heavy rail. can fiddle around with the track capacities, and Neptune Road was a small sound-chipped DCC operated inglenook shunting puzzle with steam and diesel motive power from the 1960s, put perhaps more remarkably it was made from a single sculpted block of expanded polyurethane stiffened on the underside with wood. Theres a Shunting Puzzles website: (Wymann.info I think) which has been around for a while and covers the topic in some depth. 2) No space for a layout this is, perhaps, that from an operational challenge Ive been in contact with Andy Wymann regarding expanding the Inglenook - lets just say that adding just a couple of wagons rapidly expands the possible combinations from the thousands into the millions!! Sign-up for email today! Yes but my inglenook is extended so the line is not just a head shunt, its a single running line to a goods warehouse complex with a run round and a small siding with coaling and water for the shunter, so when actually shunting the inglenook the limit of shunt protects the other half of the layout which could have another engine on it. hand end of this layout. Light, code 70 track looks great and is easy to lay on such a small layout. http://danger-ahead.railfan.net/accidents/driffield/home.html. The foundation of any layout is the baseboard The better the work, the better the foundation. uppermost "siding" must be cleared because a Keep up the good work. I'm using American HO stuff, so there's only room for a 3-2-2 version. needs to be introduced in order to prevent chance On the other end, 40' (modernized) boxcars can look More information 1x3 Foot HO Switching Layout It is part of my original main line around the garage which got a bit too much. This can be a leased Alco or Electro-Motive Division switcher, or an ancient 0-6-0 spending its last few years shuffling cars around the docks. One industry is a petroleum products distributor The second is either a manufacturing building or a food products plant (I have not made up my mind yet! The headshunt can fit a locomotive plus 2 cars. Dec 12, 2007 #1 For quite a . 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