In unserem Vergleich haben wir die ungewhnlichsten Eon praline auf dem Markt gegenbergestellt und die entscheidenden Merkmale, die Kostenstruktur und die Meinungen der Kunden vergleichend untersucht. Well done and worth coming back to. http://www.wymann.info/ShuntingPuzzles/sw-inglenook.html. They will need the addition of a mounting for the Alex Jackson type coupling - Set in California, it portrays a small Size: 15 x 80 And poor old Jerry. Pity this web site is no longer being updated. The main buildings are kitbashed from what looks like SuperQuick brand cardstock models and they look terrific. & VARIATIONS. very much like a track schematic from a signal Inglenook Shunting Puzzles. Layout 5' long by 2' 6" wide sized to fit into my car roof box. I like that this version has been made a little wider to really expand the scenic areas. Hopefully these two little scenes will give you a chuckle or three. But I like the idea of separate shunting away from the running line. power such as the GP7/9. Operation is designed to work with eight wagons across the two sidings. Bob Hughes' N Scale San This track plan is actually a Layout Design Element (LDE), adapted from some industrial sidings on the Central Connecticut RR. It consists of a specific track layout, a set of initial conditions, a defined goal, and rules which must be obeyed while performing the shunting operations. following shunting cycle illustrates the operational In the close-up photos this really shows off well and its easy to see how much this could look like a real location and were (model) railfanning. As shown having a small shunting layout can be just as much fun , and helps keep the costs down ..Dangerous dave, Nice little article about the joys of shunting layouts, but the mentioned App Inglenook Sidings doesnt come up in Google play. For me, its easier to look at the path others have taken, than to take a path myself. Here are some pictures of the space I have in the garage. on each side of the board. The goods wagons as well as the locomotive in Where I come alive is either in helping someone refine their grand vision or determine how to operationalise it sure am glad for the times when Ive been engaging this talent professionally. indeed, has already been loaded. I runa wide variety of stock, all of almost identical length, such as 7-plankPO wagons, presflos, ore wagons, box wagons, etcwith pannier tanks, saddle tanks, 03s or 08s - all on a 4x2 board. His Micro-Layout website is still around but hasnt been updated much in recent years. This gives you time to imagine you are a passenger on the train taking a trip somewhere in times gone by. Inglenook Sidings, created by Alan Wright (1928 - January 2005), is a model railway train shunting puzzle. Time left: 6d 19h | Starting bid: 120.00 [ 0 bids] Bid amount - Enter 120.00 or more. So here are some of my ramblings on Any-rail. Works well with MicroTrains, Walthers, and Trainworx PS-2 covered hoppers and MicroTrains 94000 Series trough hatch covered hoppers. the occasional freight train rumbling past (if The Inglenook Grain CO-OP. Switching configuration on "Val Ease East" Instead of two sidings diverging from a main, there are three leads A, B and C. Although lead C has a maximum 4-car capacity, I have added a twist to the Inglenook, so to speak. constellations where it would in fact be possible This I presume most here are used to the Inglenook sidings puzzle (and one of the simplest operational layout designs ever). Hope this helps, One industry is a petroleum products distributor The second is either a manufacturing building or a food products plant (I have not made up my mind yet! on the shunting puzzles page, but the conclusion to be drawn from Model Railways Shunting Puzzles - Inglenook Sidings, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inglenook_Sidings&oldid=1116269382, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. Jerry, sorry to hear about your back troubles. 01/MAY/2001 Again, the layout is comprised of fairly common off the shelf items but also again, the composition is just so well executed. Next Last. Keeping the separate inglenook but adding a passenger service and run around. Your layout is excellent and totally realisticbut when I saw the people on that little platform instead of the deck it distracted from the realism now I am sure I am not the only person to notice this but if you take a small Dremel and file off that stupid ram thing that is of people are standing on and glue those feet to the platform then you will have total realism, Several comments stock the required length of the sidings Scale: HO (1:87.1) somewhere in Northern Maine. 3 in the classic formula, 2 in the This is a great post. required to fit onto the longest of the three Funny thing that Alan Wright dreamed up Inglenook Sidings on your side of the pond about the same time as the Timesaver had been introduced Actually Inglenook Sidings was an operating innovation to a plan that had hit American shores about 1934 BUT was also found in A. R. Walkelys Suitcase layout of 1926! Change). For this particular layout I chose to use Peco Setrack points (Switches/Turnouts). Yes, every building you see is from one of Als printable buildings kits. I will be using older style equipment that would have been common on American railroads through the 1960s. This is likely to Yes you are right of course. setting and the surroundings. Form a train of 5 wagons selected at random of a specific order from the 8 wagons. One of the best things about yours is the angle you have it on. It did make me smile. Powered by Invision Community, Festival of British Railway Modeling - Doncaster, London Festival of Railway Modelling - Alexandra Palace. these layouts evolve the basic Inglenook scheme into I really like what youve done with On30-still, in my opinion, the best way to model O scale narrow gauge. It's easy! Back in the 1940s and 50s, the most common car types on the Brunswick wharf were boxcars, ice-bunker refrigerator cars, and flatcars loaded with lumber, structural steel, or farm machinery. That led me to investigate small shunting layouts a little further and since I have enough stock, track and points to mount a serious attempt at something I started to plan out things in my head. 3) No time to build a layout As I said above - I realise I need to decide what I want, and I have no real direct question on the planning, other than asking your opinions. stock (e.g. We can use more than 8 becuase of the 4th siding. Im sure someone would finish you helix for you. If that was my intention all the time! As shown, the Port of Brunswick layout is 15 x 80 inches and can be built on traditional open-grid framing or a hollow-core door of appropriate width. http://forum.mtimag.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=292&sid=0d753c49e9ffd9dde0401dc48327bbbc Expanded polystyrene packaging carved, covered with Plaster of Paris, painted and coated with sawdust made the landscape. Read or Download Train Siding Puzzle at YX20. street crossing which may not be traversed during layout is a small shunting layout, John goes through and explains in detail the major components of building a layout (any size layout); the baseboard, track, switches (turnouts), scenery, buildings, roads, crossings. This model rail-related article is a stub. The road print is very believable as are the sidewalks. The yard lead must be long enough to let three cars and a locomotive clear the points on the wharf track switch. (I believe across the pond you would say that we tin). the layout short in overall length. Take a look at the shunting puzzles website referred to earlier - it gives you how many possible combinations there are for each size of Inglenook when following the formula. Respectfully, 1 of 2 Go to page. If this rule is ignored and the Been musing over your comments and questioning what I want from this layout and decided to go more for the layout than the shunting puzzle. Thesame amount of space could easily accommodate a 5-3-3 setup if I were using an 0-4-0 / 0-6-0 locomotive and 4 wheeled stock in British OO. Youll need to think ahead when doing your switching because theres no extra room. The track plan shown here depicts a small rail-marine terminal yard serving the docks of Brunswick, Ga., in the 1950s. However for a British station I think you're probably right about having the head shunt. Recently a Facebook friend offered a challenge; What SCENE could one build in the space of a business card (2 inches by 3 inches). This would give you a simulated runaround and would allow you to keep propelled goods off the passenger line. But dont underestimate the Port of Brunswick RR; despite its size it delivers plenty of challenge and satisfaction. The layout went on hold for at least six to eight months, then I found out I couldnt finish the helix because my reach and bending were limited. And, worldwide! Idiots! Andrew, that is an awesome Inglenook. shunting puzzle based on Inglenook Sidings (Or I'm not smart enough?). These are sharp for American practice but with the small equipment that I planned to use, they are perfect for the project. Doubling the size makes it to big to fit on the paper? The design is a double oval where the outside oval is an eight-figure that loops over itself using an elevated track and two small tunnels. alternative to a fully scenicked Inglenook The cars must be blocked in order for efficient loading. For example, let's say that cars to be switched out . tower, however, only contains ten loads. It is wonderful how many people have been encouraged to start as a result of your blog. pieces from the range of regular blocks are used Back to the Model Railways I have a handout for interested people at shows detailing the operation and layout specifics which 8 can happily forward to you if you like. There are several ways of introducing the Are you happy to propel in from your fiddle yard to shunt your inglenook, or justify a second loco in a small location in order to shunt the yard? Festival of British Railway Modeling - Doncaster, London Festival of Railway Modelling - Alexandra Palace, http://www.wymann.info/ShuntingPuzzles/Timesaver/timesaver-trackplan.html. Its hard to believe this is a layout based on a shunting puzzle and that its not actually based on a real location it just looks so right. "Complex" Mode - The program knows the capacity of each siding and randomly assigns 5 cars to spots on the sidings. specially adapted rules and instructions - and A collection of wagons sits in a fan of sidings with a limited length headshunt (lead track). Anything more recent than that would require a layout at least 6 feet long and Peco SL Medium points. The breadth of the internet is equal parts blessing and curse for layout planning. 2) No space for a layout All three are OO scale and standard gauge. If you want to run with more variation, then 3. by any standards, it can be kept virtually The fun thing with Inglenook, all of the switching puzzles really, is that they scale. can start to expand quite rapidly. Happy days. the headshunt to the actual Inglenook Sidings layout But rents are extremely high here about 1700.00 month. On the other end, 40' (modernized) boxcars can look Andy Mitchell , used with kind permission, Back to the Model What suggestions do you have to adopt it to O scale? When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. On my side of the pond, the common shunting layout is the Timesaver introduced by John Allen in 1971. shunting moves, or a signal set to red, or even a Looking forward to hearing how you make out. I could reduce it but I felt I might want to play in the 'real world' too with longer wagons. Back the layout. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. I love the scenery. space permits, the addition of a marshalling It is my opinion that Inglenook Sidings has been copied (in one form or another) far more often than the Timesaver has. In my case I also had an extra set of cards to define the number of cars on each siding for the complex mode. LAYOUTS Interesting designs that if not the one for your layout, provide inspiration in ways neither you nor their builders have yet envisioned, Chris! Did anybody else notice the sigh, Stanly Pest Control under the outhouse? JavaScript is disabled. But even if 2b had a simple headshunt - would it be hard to justify a shunter that takes wagons off a loco that arrives in siding one next to the platform road, or even the platform road itself? from pulling out the last car from the long siding, turning it into a sitting duck. Some operating sessions are more involved than others, but Ive never encountered one that couldnt be completed. Really like the print out scenery! ~ Cheers, yet another JOHN. I know Im biased, but I think Andrew has done a great job with his buildings particularly his crane. I then need to shunt the cars until they are all in the positions decided by the program. of the headshunt so you can't 'cheat' by drawing all the waggons out of a siding. (A trick I learned reading Continental Modeller many years ago). Lighter ballast and painting the sleepers (ties) a lighter color also helps hide the overly heavy rail. Sometimes this is very simple. good on a North American switching puzzle that won't In the case of Inglenook Sidings, British practice might favour it in many locations and it avoids the need for catch points. adds a certain visual interest with, possibly, BR green which Andy devised and built out of more 1; 2; Next. An inglenook track plan comprises just two points, three sidings, and a headshunt. Jerry The two other sidings can hold three cars. The Shunting Puzzle T his layout is based on the design called Inglenook Sidings, which combines a seemingly simple layout with a clever design in problem solving. It may not display this or other websites correctly. 61K subscribers in the modeltrains community. Happy Model Railroading to all. Might be able to fit that in. The track pinned and ballast stuck with diluted PVA. Have you tried your local model train club. Look pretty Kool.!!!! layout). I have a 26ft x 10ft exhibition only layout which is going nowhere (literally and as a result figuratively as well) at the moment and so I thought I would build anInglenook but wondered what the 'rules' where. The headshunt can fit a locomotive plus 2 cars. Trial and error with some spare track and rolling stock. Photos by Adrian at the Uckfield show. There are some common complaints about this wonderful hobby we share. More information. Im thinking in terms of CA type glues and how they attack foam. To which the answer is.GO FOR IT!!!!!! card or token system to select cars - you can introduce a It is a classic 5-3-3 Inglenook set up for 50 foot cars and Atlas GP length locomotives (SD-7s, 9s, 24s & 26s also work well). However, for the Inglenook layout to work you do need to follow some quite pedantic mathematical rules, or else you end up with something either too easy (too many shunting spaces) or impossible to do! operational challenge and is fun to operate, even - from an operational point of view there is no need to Vancouver, BC, Canada, Thank you, Andrew, for a fun idea Im very space limited, and your Inglewood Siding has many opportunities to build, learn AND Enjoy THANKS. Actually Inglenook Sidings was an operating innovation to a plan that had hit American shores about 1934 BUT was also found in A. R. Walkely's "Suitcase layout " of 1926! I know I am tempted to dig out some 1/4 thick balsa sheet to try as its the actual layout baseboard I need to tackle next for my layout. (classification) yard can greatly increase the complexity This layout has been built entirely using common off the shelf items but it looks terrific and really showcases just how strong a role composition and colour play in the overall finish model. The passanger service is as regular as clock work. I added a level crossing with some card that I had stained with wood stain. after 10 moves the from a bag, each block having a colour scheme you will find that a good many modellers have actually Model Railroading. same way you would get out the Monopoly game board) using I like the suggestion about checking to see if a Boy Scout would be interested in helping. What stood out for me was how well finished they all are. The brake van is not part of the puzzle but is used with a boxed KD coupler to give slightly more reliable performance than one plugged into an NEM pocket in the loco. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. I've tried adding a caboose in there (which will never be part of the finished train), but much like solitaire this means that it's not possible to 'win' every time. Interested? reasons for this is precisely that it is a proven formula The Port of Brunswick is a one-locomotive railroad. It is part of my original main line around the garage which got a bit too much. Powered by Invision Community. which needs to be observed very strictly, is the capacity Aug 1, 2017 - Inglenook Sidings Shunting Puzzle - Layouts & Variations. I built my first Inglenook as a folding layout that I could take to my local hobby shop for operations on exhibition day that they had each month. A 3-foot length of flextrack is ideal for this. change anything. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/366/entry-5960-neptune-road-micro-inglenook/ What is now the headshunt could be a kickback siding to a mill or something. That's correct, just have a limit of shunt sign and resist the urge to cheat. I call this the Triangle building because of the space it fits in, It is made from another of Als print-out engine house kits. Inglenook variations and diversions! I thought that of the inglenook design is to limit the length (loco plus 3 waggons?) used on Tropicana's "(orange) juice with a 2 cars plus loco length headshunt will The preference is O scale. The loading There is one rp miles away but not in Nscale. The classic version of the puzzle works something like this: Sidings for 5 cars (wagons),3 cars and 3 cars, with a headshunt (mainline) for 3 cars plus the loco. For myself: My wifes back failed catastrophically after a fall. A big advantage of Peco points is the over-center (over-centre?) 4) Do not know where to begin. Sign up for a new account in our community. Neptune Road, OO scale 8 cars are in play - distributed around the 11 siding spaces. A variation of your question might be answered by use of a 'marshalling yard' shown on this page: I've read that, but it wasn't quite what I was looking for. This page was last edited on 15 October 2022, at 18:34. Until recently, access to Brunswicks port was restricted by a low-slung highway bridge across the harbor entrance. If I were to be using equipment that would be common for the 1980s and into the 1990s, Peco Streamline Small Radius points could be used and the layout would need to be at least six inches longer if not a foot. (I have now built several copies of Simplex to try different ideas.). I wish I would have come across Als site before I started building my layout. I do use a small piano wire in a trough between my switch trows and the points themselves. SIDINGS you can alter the total number of freight cars on There are really three authoritative sources for this kind of information: 1. The late, great Carl Arendt explored the subject in one of his books. trackgang which will not clear the track unless the Railways Shunting Puzzles Website main page, Page . Didnt have it fused but had a rod inserted next to the spine screwed into it. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/26972-fiddle-yards-visible-or-hidden/ Soundtrack? If space is available, An inglenook puzzle is a classic shunting (switching) puzzle often found on model railway layouts. So I tried an Inglenook. Sidings back to back (which is why Andy calls it A highly recommended layout for people with limited space and/or low budget to have a go at railway modelling. Copyright 2011 - 2022, Free model railroad layout plans pics and tips. Aug 1, 2017 - Inglenook Sidings Shunting Puzzle - Layouts & Variations. Trees are electric wire or a cutting from the garden covered with fine strips of kitchen paper and spray painted, bushes from bits of Woodland Scenic and PVA. For the phone ap, it is Shunting by Jeppa Teensma. Trains are randomised by drawing out blocks Sorry, but the N scale track link is not working on the bay cheat sheet. If you so desired you could place a removable storage cassette on the five-car road to reverse the orientation of trains or bring in other consists. It includes just three turnouts, almost all the track is dead straight, and itll fit in office cubicles, studio apartments, dorm rooms, and other spaces traditionally considered too small for a model railroad. Model railway layout oo gauge Inglenook Sidings Style. rule applies such that every wagon that visits The layout can be measured in regards to SLU, a railway term meaning Standard Length Unit - the length over buffers of a standard 12 ton van, or 21ft. Then I use a simple computer program that I have written to operate in one of the following modes. Now, my layout planning frustrates me so its very likely to frustrate you too, so be warned. Jerry, I feel your pain in more ways than one. A different take on the shunting puzzle, I use cards mixed up then you shunt into the spots, loco and six freight cars, track plan taken from a UK outline layout I seen. For one of the scenes, I used your new brick paper. I am sure you did not intend for that new offering to be used this way but I do intend to use it for some other more appropriate structures as well. 15 October 2022. I like that term: editor. It depends on what passenger trains you decide to run. Personally I think irs profiteering at the hobbies expense . Whoever has the layout with the people standing on their round little platform instead of the actual playground.let me say this .. Ray Davies enough scale people in various poses to fill scenes also costs far more than it takes to produce them. The baseboard for my Little Layout is a bit overbuilt because of the expectation that it will see at least as much abuse as use. Edit: Though it's probably fairly obvious I meant to include the wagon capacities that make the terminus+inglenook idea work. Enter 120.00 or more [ 0 bids] Submit Bid. North American prototype modellers might The same set-up could be imagined Its been fun and provides plenty of entertainment while locked-down and subject to strict travel restrictions. 3. Copyright 2022 RMweb.co.uk Thats still where Im at today. Its about time for me to muck about with track again and my interest was recently poked by reading through an old magazine. There may be another nearby modeler who might help Ask around The local club may be HO but you might be surprised that someone might help. A small Inglenook Sidings switching layout for an office shelf. For those not familiar, an Inglenook puzzle is a small operations layout with three sidings, eight same-sized cars, and one locomotive. Eon praline - Der TOP-Favorit unserer Produkttester. Copyright 2011 - 2022, Free model railroad layout plans pics and tips. In unserem Vergleich haben wir die ungewhnlichsten Sailor moon diadem auf dem Markt gegenbergestellt und die entscheidenden Merkmale, die Preisgestaltung und die Meinungen der Kunden vergleichend untersucht. require an excessive amount of lateral space. Jerry. Dec 12, 2007 #1 For quite a . The inglenook and another Micro-Layout based on a Jack Trollope design known as Microbe Yard will be the two largest pieces at 1 foot by 4 foot each. I tend to operate mine in one of 2 ways. illustrates. perspective it is better to stick with the original I'm going to chew over the suggestions made above - I too lean towards plan 3 but I don't want to cram in to much track - and slow running over many points seems like a recipe for fustration! formula if at all possible. The classic inglenook design is a headshunt that will just take your locomotive and 4 wagons, this leading through two points, to 1st a platform based yard in which 5 wagons have to be placed in the correct order related to a random choice card, following that another point which splits the line into 2 short sidings each with the capacity of 3 Their loads are then transferred to cargo nets and hoisted aboard, to be stowed in a freighters (or freighters) various holds. Sometimes its never plain sailing. (LogOut/ Of course, Im biased about the printable buidlings, but it does show how versatile it is you can pretty much scratch build anything with it. then a layout plan on Anyrail . That one was six feet long in its open form and it folded into a space that was only 8 inches wide and 36 inches long. Mines bad, too, but not so bad that I cant do whats needed Ive just learned not to need too much, which makes me think about your problem: if you cant get anyone to do what youre needing done, consider destroying that area of your layout, as if a tornado came through, and rebuilding it with remnants of the helix showing, as proof of what man is capable of when mother nature does her thing. Try it using 8 wagons/cars. the "snap together" to create a highly compact (495 x 185mm) and also two sidings holding 2 cars each, which together Indie something, nothing I recognized, but we were surrounded by Queens students, so thats why. However, the Reading one of your blogs a few weeks ago I discovered that I was building an Inglenook Siding layout, the British shunting puzzle with simplicity in terms of track layout. My Little Layout happens to match the Phone AP Inglenook exactly. Sometimes it throws up real "head-scratchers" that can take ages to fathom out. Are their guidlines about the length of the headshunt - loco and two freight cars? "Simple" Mode - The program randomly selects a 3 car train that I have to make up; this is the same as Keith described above but with fewer cars. Single or double track or more, so more trains can run at the same time. The third levelincreases the difficulty Best of all, it takes more than five carloads to fill an oceangoing freighter. For exhibitions it also gives you the option to shuttle an MU or push-pull in and out of the station while continuing to shunt the yard until you're ready to send the finished goods train out. to squeeze e.g. End of the Line - lnglenook Sidings shunting puzzle The layout which is a little goods yard at the end of a branch line, somewhere or nowhere, was built to inspire as something that could be actually be finished. Dont know where you live but possibly contact a Boy Scout Troop, if one in your area, and see if one of the youths can step up and assist you with the manual aspects of completing the helix. The switching lead has a capacity of two cars plus the locomotive. Looking at the time, I really need to get started on supper. I had always used old fashioned techniques before. What about 2b with the headshunt extended into staging? Helix for you to operate mine in one of Als printable buildings kits from what looks like SuperQuick brand models. 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