Enlgewood Yard WIP

[decontrol80]

Ive been reworking mars68 englewood yard route with new track and texture for my own personal use. Plan on adding stettegast yard to the north soon and the intermodel to the west. Just some pics of replacing the track for now.

New track Vs old

lots of switching

Looking east

Looking west

Top of the hump

Classification

 

[H222]

Wow. Fill that up with trains and your frames. Die

Jamie :hehe:

 

[JohnnyC1]

Die! You mean DOA! Nice track work.

John

 

[train20]

Hello need to make a train yard portal now that whould be cool

 

[flyinsolo]

WOW thats a big yard! I would get lost.

 

[Euphod]

Amazingly large yard, great for realism, bad for frame rates!

 

[decontrol80]

pushing cars over the hump



Added the intermodel and half way done with Settegast yard to the north

 

[decontrol80]

So after almost two years off I have come back to my project. Some pics of the progress in the last two days on settegast yard to the north. Everything is to scale

 

[cascaderailroad]

Well ... I am impressed (speachless, right now) !

What is the gradient on your hump ? I found that a short 125' hump at 0.50%, with a hump/yard lead in of 0.02% is steep enough to get slow moving railcars to not speed downhill over 15 mph, hump speed 5 mph or less.

If this photo is the correct yard ... the hump lead goes straighter, and has its own bridge, instead of swooping out to the left in this screenshot: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v637/finalconflict/decontrol80_20120901_0005.jpg

 

[AMTRAKwannabe]

I also believe retarders were invented for a reason, to slow the cars down on their way down the hump...

 

[decontrol80]

Your spot on about the third track, I hadn't noticed that the hump tracks were not correct actually until you pointed it out.(thank you) That part of the yard was from the mars68 version that I just changed the track out to a newer version and straightened some things out, I will have to go rework that area. About the gradient I couldn't tell you off hand but I will check it right now when I start up Trainz and post back. I appreciate the comments, this is the first big project I have done.