once more with feeling…

October 2013

October 2012

Look how far I’ve come since October last year!  Or not, depending on your point of view.  The 2012 plan was for a spare room, whereas the current plan is for a 14′ x 8′ shed.  Of course, allowing for the structure of the shed gives a maximum inner footprint closer to 13′ 6″, so there’s some linear squeezing going on.  The plan now reflects the actual turnouts I own, so the yard is completely ‘right handed’, and uses a compound ladder rather than a simple ladder.

The unanticipated outcome of this is four yard tracks of equal length which is impossible with a conventional simple ladder.  I’ve deliberately omitted a run-round in the yard itself, but have an option to use the double ended siding as a run round if needed.  I imagine the lead off the yard tracks will hold a pair of switchers that will back onto a cut of cars, pull them round the curve and the switcher set that was trapped at the end of the yard tracks is now free to run ahead into the lead.  On the return trip, the switcher sets will be reversed, and the operation continues in that fashion.

So it’s coming together via tiny incremental steps.  And I’m still waiting for the shed…