Post pictures of your freight yards, please!

Joe,

That is about the size yard I envision on my new layout when I gain access to the larger room.  Excellent job!!!

I have just one pair of switches on my whole layout.  This is due to the fact that I run many makes and ages of trains.  As such, I have only one sidetrack, which functions as engine service and public access track.  (I think that is what it was called - where folks could bring items to be shipped). 

Here's my Class Yard with departure Yard to the left and Receiving Yard in background.

 

Joe

Hi David   Yes I am a member  Have been since 2004  Here is a shot of the transfer table

 

Neat building , blueline !!!
Is that scratch built, and do you have any more pictures of it ?
Mike

If I were to judge these layouts, I would have to give the first prize to Jim P. for the most realistic yards.

"If I were to judge these layouts, I would have to give the first prize to"

 

   I'd have to go for Rusty Traque's yard full of boxcars, I saw many of those when I was a kid.

  Here's a yard shot on my unfinished N scale layout......DaveB

 

Thank you Frank, David, Ed and others for the kind words about my freight yard.

 

I had always wanted a double-ended yard in a big city industrial setting.

 

Jim

Here is a picture of my yard.

Mike

We purchased that building from forumite scratchbuilder 1-48   Its fully detailed inside.  All of the doors are operational.

 

 

Mark,

 

I'm all about the "humble" layout myself, if it ever gets built.  I'm in the >50 sq ft crowd and am trying at all costs to get both a continuous run and a switching operation.

 

What is the size of your layout?  I'm guessing 5x9?

A picture from the old layout....July 1999.

 

 

 

 

Peter

Great work everyone.

 

Jim, when are you coming with your skills to help us become presentable?

Thanks to everyone who has posted here. These are some fantastic pictures. Really neat thread! 

 

Doug you were the most original in my opinion. And so much space...

 

Still working on my yard, so all I have is a drawing of it.  While my layout has continuous running loops, I also wanted to be able to do some realistic switching operations.  Because of this, the yard tracks turned out shorter than I hoped. However, my staging tracks are quite long so my plan for the yard is it will support a small town with some industries scattered along the mainline. 

 

My operating plan for the yard, as of now, allows a 40-car freight to depart the staging tracks, drop off a block of cars at the yard, switchers then classify them, and then local freights move the cars to their destinations.  Then do everything in reverse to get the cars back to staging.

 

Here is a slightly out of date RR-Track plan.  It is mostly track for operation, which will limit scenic possibilities.  The layout curves to the left at the top of the picture into more open track work for better scenic treatment.

 

 

Here is a schematic of the yard.  Someday I hope to get this up and running to see if it works.

Here's my yard's .

 

Guy

Guy,

Love the coal yard. 

Kevin,

Thank you very much!  You are close, it is 4' 4" x 8'.  It is on a 4x8 then I extended out another 4" in the front to accommodate the O48 Fastrack outer curves.  The yard is on the inner O36 curves.  It will do me fine until our last daughter moves out and I can expand into her 12x12 room.  I won't know what to do with all that space!  lol

Here is our yard...         

There's a lot of great pics in this thread.  Here's my Winterton yards. As you can see, the entrance to the yards are tight. All the turnouts are 072s

 

 

Thank you, David!

 

I really enjoy the layout, and so have the 285 guests who have seen it, of which over 100 have been here in just the past three months.

 

I am in the process of making another video . . .

 

Alex 

Judging from the amount of cars in these yards, the economy must have improved. 

 

Art

Everyone thank you for posting pictures to this forum, I really appreciate it! All of these yards and layouts look great and each has an aspect to them that make them all unique! Hopefully sometime before Christmas I could post a picture of my yard and layout! -David

Our west side yard, this time filled with trains

Lower level yard

 

 

 

 

Great thread.   Even better pictures by everybody that has posted.  Here's my intermodel/mixed use yard.  

Here is ours.  This is shortly after the track was laid.  I should have taken more pictures this weekend when we had about 10 full trains stored in it.  Total capacity is about 650 freight cars.

 

 

 

 

 

Holy smokes!  That's amazing. 

My very small yard on my 4 x 10 that I just tore down

I love yards with all the cars waiting their turn to get on the road again.  So many great ideas and photos of yards.  I have designated 3 areas of track for my imaginary yard.  Kind of difficult to capture the big picture of the tracks because there are two 23 foot tracks that curve around a rock mountain that allow access at either end and a third that is a stub.  In any event, it is not a conventional design but it works to store my "local" freight trains.  The there is room for my tank car train 9 tankers and a coal hopper in front of the cabin car; a nine hopper coal train; a 10 car reefer train; a 11 car mix train of box, flats and tankers; and a 7 or 8 car mix on the stub.  If I get a good view I will try to photo.  In the meantime, keep the photos coming, they are great.

 Just a small holding yard with nothing more than empty hoppers awaiting there trip to the mine. 

I messed that one up, no text, here is another one on a busy day and showing the Engine house.

Roo.

Am I in trouble I just realised that the thread is about 3 rail.

I just saw the heading and thought that sounds interesting so I posted a couple of photos.

Sorry if I upset anybody I'm not into 3 and 2 rail debates anyway, I like all model railroad layouts.

Roo.

As Crocodile Dundee might say "This is a freight yard!"  That's really awesome, Jim.  Can't wait to get over and see you guys again.

 

Art

Sure doesn't matter to me how many rails there are.  A beautiful yard is a beautiful yard.  Thanks for joining in.

 

Art

No problem here.  Loved your pictures Roo.   We can appreciate and learn from any good model regardless of the number of rails or of the scale. 

Roo,

having moved to 3 rail about 3 years ago, after 45 years in smaller 2 rail scales, I don't even notice whether there is 3 or 2 rails any more.  I look at trains, structures, and scenery.  Regardless, I am with the others, we can all learn from anyone no matter what sale or number of rails.  Trains is trains!