German yard layout
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AussieNightcrawler
Trainz Everywhere...
Hi,
This will come in handy for building yards:
http://members.westnet.com.au/nightcrawler/trainz/yardtemplate01.jpg
http://members.westnet.com.au/nightcrawler/trainz/yardtemplate02.jpg
Do a search on the DLS for CS_Yard and you should find it, CS_Yard Template 1 (kuid:37522:9972), helps a lot getting everything looking right.
This will come in handy for building yards:
http://members.westnet.com.au/nightcrawler/trainz/yardtemplate01.jpg
http://members.westnet.com.au/nightcrawler/trainz/yardtemplate02.jpg
Do a search on the DLS for CS_Yard and you should find it, CS_Yard Template 1 (kuid:37522:9972), helps a lot getting everything looking right.
Thanks, but I meant an entire yard! As in, where lights go and how they work, everything about industries, stations, water towers, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc...
AussieNightcrawler
Trainz Everywhere...
The templates will give you the beginning of the yard, where to place you tracks, so build from there, that's what I do, imagination its called, reason why I play Trainz.
Go to my website and take a look at the screenshots there, some were taken in Surveyor of a few yards, the layout is undergoing an a major reconstruction so its not finished yet.
http://members.westnet.com.au/nightcrawler/trainz/index.htm
Needs updating too...
Go to my website and take a look at the screenshots there, some were taken in Surveyor of a few yards, the layout is undergoing an a major reconstruction so its not finished yet.
http://members.westnet.com.au/nightcrawler/trainz/index.htm
Needs updating too...
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The templates will give you the beginning of the yard, where to place you tracks, so build from there, that's what I do, imagination its called, reason why I play Trainz.
Go to my website and take a look at the screenshots there, some were taken in Surveyor of a few yards, the layout is undergoing an a major reconstruction so its not finished yet.
http://members.westnet.com.au/nightcrawler/trainz/index.htm
Needs updating too...
Hmm, thanks!
And I can't resist... how are getting it to where when you click that button on the left, the frame scrolls out a frame with a bunch of links scrolls in to replace it? :udrool::mop:
It's a script. Right click in the frame and view "frame source"
WileeCoyote
Eatibus Almost Anythingus
Most of the available yard templates aren't exactly correct for building a railyard, German style. As for signals, there are quite a few types that were used depending on era and region. It would also make a difference if you were building a "normal" yard, or one with a hump for automatic wagon sorting. If you want to see a good example of a yard (aside from Nuernberg of course), look up Maschen in Google Earth. Its the biggest shunting yard in Germany and I believe the second biggest in Europe.
WileeCoyote
WileeCoyote
The Gateway NMRA site has a nice set of articles on almost everything, with freight yards at the top of the page here: http://www.gatewaynmra.org/library.htm
It's probably U.S. specific, but much of it will be universal to moving cars around.
Claude
Edit: I found a site with diagrams of a generic yard, with explanations. http://www.housatonicrr.com/yard_des.html
And another take on the subject: http://www.theweebsite.com/trains/yards.html
It's probably U.S. specific, but much of it will be universal to moving cars around.
ClaudeEdit: I found a site with diagrams of a generic yard, with explanations. http://www.housatonicrr.com/yard_des.html
And another take on the subject: http://www.theweebsite.com/trains/yards.html
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Dreadnought1
Dinsdale???!!!
If you want info on the layout of German rail yards (or Austrian, Dutch or Swiss), check this site out.
http://www.sporenplan.nl/
Cheers,
Dreadnought1
http://www.sporenplan.nl/
Cheers,
Dreadnought1
Here's a great one.
Browse to [Englis] / German Railways / Schaaltekeningen (not much English the last one).
Then select 'Dresden Friedrichstadt' Or 'Kassel Rbf' for a big one.
But if you think of modelling one in Trainz, select 'Limburg' or 'Dillenburg' for minor hubs. Might be more reasonable. I for myself am doing Treysa which still is a big project to model single handed.
Norbert
WileeCoyote
Eatibus Almost Anythingus
By remarkable coincidence I'm going to Limburg tomorrow, while I'm there I'll take lots of pictures. I also have a few yard shots from a recent trip to Bw Koblenz-Luetzel.
Looking north, on the right is the DB's electric loco museum.
Same view, with 3X zoom, on the far right is the DB's E 50 091, one of two locomotives of its class left in existence
The hump, located on the south side of the yard
A shot take over a wall south of the hump
The most used shunter for the yard, the class 294, 363's are also used.
WileeCoyote
Looking north, on the right is the DB's electric loco museum.
Same view, with 3X zoom, on the far right is the DB's E 50 091, one of two locomotives of its class left in existence
The hump, located on the south side of the yard
A shot take over a wall south of the hump
The most used shunter for the yard, the class 294, 363's are also used.
WileeCoyote
Could you bring us some cheese?:hehe:By remarkable coincidence I'm going to Limburg tomorrow, while I'm there I'll take lots of pictures.
WileeCoyote
(Going back in my box, now.) Claude