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In lugnet.trains, Simon Denscombe writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > But we're not doing really big yards. Really big yards are usually mirrored
> > onto both sides of the main, have two complete sets of tracks and are double
> > ended. Tracks on one side of the main are used to classify westbound and the
> > other side eastbound (or northbound/southbound, depending, although most • roads
> > use westbound/eastbound as timetable direction no matter what the actual
> > orientation)
>
> In Britain all railway lines are designated up or down - then fast or slow.
> All lines go 'up' to London - how they work out lines parallel to London I
> don't know.
>
> Is a goat a shunter, a bit like 7760?
In the US the yard goat is whatever power has yard duty. Yardmaster's whim, to
a certain extent. Sometimes it's a relatively small engine, like a SW (which I
modeled). Almost never would it be a rigid frame like, you only see those in
industrial use. Sometimes it may be a multi unit lashup with upwards of 10000
horsepower available. (if you're working a flat yard and making up 100 car
trains you need lots of tractive effort... ditto++ if you're shoving 100 cars
off the lead track up the hump of a humpyard)
A lot of the time the yard goat will be an engine/slug combination, or even an
slug/engine/slug because what is needed is starting power and that's where lots
and lots of traction motors help more than raw horsepower. The goat may never
get above 10 MPH all day long.
++Lar
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| Thanks to everyone who gave me suggestions on designing a yard. Here is the current plan for the layout. (URL) 20 baseplates by 12 baseplates. Ignore the roadplates under the rails on the righthand side, they are just placeholders for the table (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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| (...) In Britain all railway lines are designated up or down - then fast or slow. All lines go 'up' to London - how they work out lines parallel to London I don't know. Is a goat a shunter, a bit like 7760? Carbon 60 (24 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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