and he notes - One fellow I remember (from long ago) had a small layout and seven or eight hundred cars. He had a yard with one or two tracks (I can't recall) that terminated in a simplified car float operation, more like a removable storage track. He would push a cut of cars onto a 3' long board laid with rail which was then removed and stored on a wall display, much like a toy train collection. This simulated cars being sent off line to connecting roads and then a new board containing a cut of cars replaced the outbound cut as coming into the yard for distribution. He used a card system for tracking and it made an interesting operation as so many cars on hand guaranteed that no two trains were ever alike. It was an impressive sight as three walls had storage boards on shelves from floor to ceiling loaded with cars.
He also had a couple of boards with locomotives which would have been on trains to other terminals so that his engine terminal wasn't blocked with more locos than would normally be on hand. The Milkwaukee Road had a car float operation ( I believe) on Lake Michigan, (or they connected with one). It would be on solution to more rolling stock than track. Just a thought... Raleigh At 07:27 PM 5/1/2005, Kelvin A. White wrote: >Bob > >Thank you for your Milwaukee memories, yes the shortline with nowt but >grass for ballast is my sort of line - the trouble is potentially, too >many locos, too many freight cars, too little space. I have but 17ft 8in >in length, by 2ft wide. Potentially 50+ freight cars, the potential >locomotive count is 1#F7A, 1#F7B, 2# RS3s 1, 2# >GP9s 2#GP35s, 1#GP38-2, 2#SD9s 1#SW1 & 1#SW9 the task is to design me >a layout where by I can display as many locomotives and freight cars as >possible, carry out some worthwhile switching > >I await your proposals - I'm stumped > > >Kelvin White >Oxford, England > >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >PLEASE NOTE my email is changing in Mid May to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >almost the same - just no Demon! The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
