Reconfigued Subway Yard

Nice set up Joe on that yard, seeing how nice your accurate modeling skills in you other post, it will only get better! are those Atlas tracks or something else? your cluster of cars looks like the Coney Island storage for the museum trains! And your blue walls looks like the sky! Nice job, keep up ypur photo post, Gman

They are Atlas track.  Used RR-Track to finally get the configuration where I got close spacing between trains.  My original yard circa 2005 was NOT prototypical.  Here are the pictures from back then.

 

 

The gap is the space between 2 benches.  Two 24 inch wide benches at the left were eliminated.  The two 32 inch wide benches to the right are the ones in use today.

 

 

 

Initially it was shared main line, but in early 2006 I updated the configuration where the main line had a separate track.

 

 

 

 

 

The overlap to the next bench has been eliminated.  The bumpers have been moved 10 inches left.  The bumper not part of the yard (in the future station) has been eliminated and meets the main line curve via a switch.

 

Looks good Joe   

Joe,

 

Nice work!  The closer track spacing definitely looks more realistic.

Looks good Joe.  What is the spacing between track you are using now?  I am working on a plan now for a subway yard and am not sure close I can get them practically to look realistic.  Yours looks great though.  Also, what switches did you use to achieve the close spacing?

Chris

The yard looks great and very realistic.

Thank you for letting us know what design changes made this possible.

Spacing is 1 3/4 inch between rails.  So trains are 3/4 inch apart.

 

I used a combination of O-54 switches and O-54/O-72 curved switches to get the result.

Hey Joe

 

You should post a video of your trains in action on the yard. Looks fantastic...

Looks good Joe, the spacing between the yard tracks is very important for a subway layout.  The yards look terrible when the space is to wide. 3/4 is perfect.

Looks good, Joe

3/4 inch in 0 scale is a good prototypical 3 feet spacing between cars in a yard

(and also about right for most fingers to pick up a scale model)

The track spacing looks great, a layover yard ready for rush hour reminds me of my childhood in Mundelein..rows and rows of North Shore cars ready to toll down the Skokie Valley Route..or the Howard Street yard on the CTA..are you going to add crew quarters etc?

As of this time, no crew quarters.  My layout has 17 modules of which I have full working signals on 10 of them.  Three more have been fully wired for signals, some of them the more complicated signals of the layout.  So now the concentration will be on the build phase on top of those three modules which 3rd rail, include tunnels, tunnel lights, the signals, and 2 stations with lighting.

 

The yard, when I get to it, will have 3rd rail and signals.

Thanks for sharing. Looks great!

 

Prairie

Joe I keep coming back to this thread and thinking how perfect it all would look without that ugly center rail.