Recent content by Urban

Sure, we've a tendency to draw track as a line, when in reality it's an area.

Well, there are high speed turnouts. But with lengths in the area of 100+ m it's not something you're likely to see on most layouts.

If the connection over the bed isn't too much in the way, this really is a good solution since now both staging yards can be used as a single yard giving lots more flexibility.

I think it looks like staging capacity is a bit on the low side compared to how much switching you can do. You won't be able to run many trains before it's time to rearrange rolling stock in the staging areas again. Me, I'd choose either SAL or Southern and get a bit more room for scenery as...

Yes, this can work. Another thing I try to design in is to make the scenery on about 1/3:rd to give the impression the places are further apart than they are.

It may be a good thing that there's a limited of stuff ready to buy, since that also means you can model exactly what you want, instead of being tempted to model what's available. And maybe mix rolling stock which doesn't QUITE belong together. I have what I think may be a good idea for an N...

I can't read the language either, but there's some in English on their site. Since it's a modular club, I don't think they've got a permanent address or place to gather. According to this http://www.zababov.cz/vs/Klub/Kde.htm they've got members all over the Czech Republic and a few in...

This really isn't much about the planning, as we only see the final design, but it's notable that it's a team work and that the binder with the plan is there during the building phase. http://www.zababov.cz/vs/Moduly/H0_FreeMo/NEOFreeMo.htm More from the modular club here...

The photos aren't very good, but this shows the scheme I came up for my company on my US style H0 layout: http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/modrail/past_layouts/h0-us.html In H0 I'm now back to a European setting, sort of like Sweden, but not quite. Most of the rolling stock is old (=small)...

No, they don't have to: There were two "Great Northern" locos running in Sweden for a while (painted for the movie _Dancer in the Dark_) in ordinary revenue service. Example: http://www.bildrallaren.com/Sverige/Diesellok/TMY/TMY-bilder/TMY%20106%20tagab%20Khn.jpg That's of course an...

And here I think you have one thing which may require extra planning, depending on how the prototype is operated. In many cases the double track is two unidirectional tracks next to each other, but it could also be the case they're two bidirectional tracks and if that's what you want to...

Makes sense. I misunderstood "caboose first" to mean caboose, hopper, engine. Which I shouldn't have, because that's not a logical consist at all in this situation. Possibly I've been too much influenced by the way I plan to operate my own small Gn15 layout. When it gets designed and built...

There's one thing I don't quite understand about the operation, because as I get the description of it, there's no need for two mine tracks. And if you use the two tracks to aid in leaving empties and fetching loads, then there's possibly a lack of a runaround track on the lower level...

What about something like a figure eight with a staging yard? Schematic sketch here: http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/tmp/plan1.jpg

I've made a sketch, can't be used as is, but shows the general idea: http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/tmp/aaf.sized2.jpg