How to build a coach yard.
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Hi GS4,
I think it kinda depends on what sort of trains your yard will be servicing.
For a yard for commute (suburban) trainz you would at least want a place to store the fleet during non-service hours, cleanout tracks to clean the interiors and turn the seats for the run back up the line, and a RIP (Repair in Place) track for minor repairs to equipment, which could be shared with general service facilities if the terminal includes a nearby servicing facility. At one end or the other you also would want a wash rack.
If your yard will serve intercity trains I think you would need at least the following for a serious coach yard.
1. Everything mentioned above, plus
2. A building and spur to service diners and bar cars, including cold storage for perishables, facilities for food pre-prep work, and a bakery, and loading ice and cooking fuel.
3. Some facility for turning observation cars, such as a wye, or entire trains or at least first class compartments and sleepers, a loop if possible, if your route features scenery you want to show off that is only visible from one direction.
4. Mail building and spur for loading RPOs and sealed mail cars.
5. Building and spur for Railway Express Agency for loading express packages.
6. Some sort of parking spur for private cars, including access to steam and electricity.
If you search Google you will probably find a number of maps or diagrams of important terminals, such as Washington DC or one of the Chicago or New York stations or terminals that will give you even more ideas. You are definitely on the right track, though. Passenger train operations are a lot more complicated than dashing to the next town at 80 mph, and are often overlooked.
Have fun with it.
Bernie
I think it kinda depends on what sort of trains your yard will be servicing.
For a yard for commute (suburban) trainz you would at least want a place to store the fleet during non-service hours, cleanout tracks to clean the interiors and turn the seats for the run back up the line, and a RIP (Repair in Place) track for minor repairs to equipment, which could be shared with general service facilities if the terminal includes a nearby servicing facility. At one end or the other you also would want a wash rack.
If your yard will serve intercity trains I think you would need at least the following for a serious coach yard.
1. Everything mentioned above, plus
2. A building and spur to service diners and bar cars, including cold storage for perishables, facilities for food pre-prep work, and a bakery, and loading ice and cooking fuel.
3. Some facility for turning observation cars, such as a wye, or entire trains or at least first class compartments and sleepers, a loop if possible, if your route features scenery you want to show off that is only visible from one direction.
4. Mail building and spur for loading RPOs and sealed mail cars.
5. Building and spur for Railway Express Agency for loading express packages.
6. Some sort of parking spur for private cars, including access to steam and electricity.
If you search Google you will probably find a number of maps or diagrams of important terminals, such as Washington DC or one of the Chicago or New York stations or terminals that will give you even more ideas. You are definitely on the right track, though. Passenger train operations are a lot more complicated than dashing to the next town at 80 mph, and are often overlooked.
Have fun with it.
Bernie
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The Yard which has a track to turn the complete train is a ballon track which inlcludes a bridge that curves going over the main tracks and a tunnel running through the very hilly area before linking with the main line then it pulls past a switch which is throwen the train backs in past a suburb through the city then into the terminal to face the right way the rear car against he head house at the terminal. It's a roundabout way of doing it but it would be a diffcult to link the yard and terminal with a tunnel underneath the town or a bridge across but perhaps I'll do the bridge in the future. Though the current system is pretty intresting but my good dispathcing keeps the trains from the coach yard from snarling up the main and freight tracks. Plus the ballon doesn't intefer with coach yard switching like a wye would in this case. Plus their aren't any size constriants that the train has to follow.:udrool: :mop: 