Modeling the yard where your dad works.

[titaniclover]

well i have been bored latly so i started to make the yard where my dad works just for fun. it might be uploaded.
this is the map of the yard im following.

this is an old map. back from 1991 when Conrail owned the yard. there is now a intermodal as far as i know replacing the Reciving yard but until i get an up to date map i will not model it. now here are some pics of what i have done so far.
this is looking toward the Depature Yard from the East, cant tell which ways N, S, E, or W, which is currently 90% completed.

and here a map from what i have done so far.

what ya guys think? any ideas for improvment and that stuff?
im just doin this to learn kinda so tell me what i should fix and stuff. except textures.
this will be if uploaded in 5 forms. the one your seeing right now in just track the one in a spring/summer season and a winter season. there will also be one in a no hump form. this yard used to have a hump system it doesnt anymore but i am modeling both. also in winter, spring/summer, and just track form.
hope you like it.

 

[caddylars]

I would love to get my hands on that book of yours

Great work

Caddylars

 

[titaniclover]

haha i got it for a present for my 11th birthday.its even has a section to show the mainline plus signal configuration. very handy in my opinion.

 

[arum]

Big yard there! It seems like the curves may be a little sharp, but I may be wrong. Remember it is a drawing you are going by
Suggestion: For a current view maybe you should try google earth or microsoft's terraserver.

 

[caddylars]

haha i got it for a present for my 11th birthday.its even has a section to show the mainline plus signal configuration. very handy in my opinion.

If you were a bit older, i would bought you a couple of cold ones, and asked pretty please.
But since you're only 14, i'll leave it.

Lars

 

[Mike10]

well i have been bored latly
<snipped lots of bad spelling>
what ya guys think?

Well, since you asked, you could spend the extra time on some spelling, grammar, and punctuation practice

Mike.

 

[chrisw27]

Mike

Are you an English Teacher by any chance??
Your comments do amuse me, but I must admit, being in the Printing Industry and having to do "proof reading" they are valid points!!
I sometimes despair at the standards of grammar, not just on the forum but in life in general.

Keep up the good work

chrisw27

ps. I hope there are no errors here!?

 

[titaniclover]

well......

haha! im set i get everything if i need it from the GYO.
Arum the curves are not that sharp i checked them with a CSX locos and cars there fine. and yes it is big.
haha Mike funny i wonder why im failing English class. yea thats right.
i have done this yard before in fact but.......it didnt work out. i was unexperianced and didnt know what i was doing so the yard was all messed up. heres some pics of the older yard i did. as you can see uhh well it wasnt done very well but we all have to start somewhere!

as you can see it was built on a HOG layout. so its useless.

 

[Mike10]

haha Mike funny i wonder why im failing English class. yea thats right.

hoo wood hav fought it, shorely knot.

Mike.

 

[titaniclover]

im passing this year but last year forget it i almost failed.

 

[GreatEastern]

haha! im set i get everything if i need it from the GYO.
Arum the curves are not that sharp i checked them with a CSX locos and cars there fine. and yes it is big.

I agree with Arum actually whilst it may look OK no yard would have curves that sharp. If you did that in real life I would like to see you get a loco around that sort of curve without severing something. Like Arum said it is only a drawing and copying it verbatim will NOT provide you with the real thing IMHO. Have you checked it against photos?

Andy

 

[titaniclover]

uhhhh good point. opps. ill find some if i can.....

 

[dreddman]

I dont think i can post here (Looks around) the mistake police might get me!.......as for the yard nice lot of tracklaying there Adam
the book well I aggree with Caddylars (If you were a bit older, i would bought you a couple of cold ones, and asked pretty please.
But since you're only 14, i'll leave it. )
The beer that is The only time my Dad worked in the yard was when mowing it no one in my family has ever worked on the railways so I guess this leaves me out...I'll close the door as I leave

 

[RooRocz]

Arum the curves are notsharp i checked them with a CSX locos and cars there fine. and yes it is big.

Google Earth says something different about those curves.

 

[tyard]

where?

hmmmm, where can you get map books of yards?

 

[titaniclover]

yea opps i know about those curves now.
@tyard
the book is from the GYO of the yard i am constructing. it cant be found anywhere. they are only for CSX workers sorry. i just happened to get one.
im going to fix those curves. dont worry.

 

[tyard]

lolthats what i thought lol

yea opps i know about those curves now.
@tyard
the book is from the GYO of the yard i am constructing. it cant be found anywhere. they are only for CSX workers sorry. i just happened to get one.
im going to fix those curves. dont worry.

thats what i thought lol

 

[RooRocz]

If you need the diagram, it's in North American Railyards by Michael Rhodes (ISBN 0-7603-1578-7), which includes tons of pictures, information, and track schematics for about 80 yards.

 

[titaniclover]

i have that too! but the Dewitt Yarsd in that book is the one from 1903. out of date but ill do that one later...

 

[nyswman]

delete. Never mind