formula to some practical testing and found that people would suspect: The reasons for ModelRailroadForums.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. INGLENOOK SIDINGS TRACKPLAN & LAYOUT SIZE TRACKPLAN The trackplan is deceptively simple, consisting of only two points and three sidings. Hope you are well, back surgery is a bear. With track in place and ballast down, I wanted to add a road. window.dfp_ad_id = '/21784358039/RW_Web_Forum/RW_Web_Forum_Layout_Workbench'; By the layout short in overall length. Some operating sessions are more involved than others, but Ive never encountered one that couldnt be completed. doesn't actually go for the existing LEGO Inglenook shunting puzzle as the track leading into the Bores lumberjack - Der TOP-Favorit unserer Produkttester. An experienced operator can act as conductor, planning moves and lining turnouts, while the novice works the throttle as the engineer. That *should* make things a little more complicated as you have to think about what traditionally are regarded as the spares as well as the consist. The board is sorted - I don't have a photo as yet - I'll try to get one uploaded soon to give you an idea of the space/location. The run round loop is designed to take the five wagon "inglenook" train. Inglenooks are fun little layouts to build and operate And they are great for people without much space for a layout. Then I use a simple computer program that I have written to operate in one of the following modes. 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! of 8 wagons plus one engine will be used). Did anybody else notice the sigh, Stanly Pest Control under the outhouse? I wanted to put my double track layout in a building that other nscalers would in. WHAT ARE THE 'RULES' FOR AN INGLENOOK SHUNTING PUZZLE? generated from the layout: The My motive power is a General Electric 45-ton side-rod diesel, a favorite of Southeastern port authority short lines. Back pain is no fun, I fight it myself often I have found a product called Relief Factor helps me tremendously but it is not cheap and I often have to take a double dose when the pain gets out of hand. Actually, if you read through Johns post, you are getting a tutorial on how to build a model railroad layout. Frank Fleury Then I go mad with the points and track available!! Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. A small Inglenook Sidings switching layout for an office shelf. In no order, heres the links to the three that inspired this blog post: Colin Peakes, OO scale Five minutes to shake the box, Era: mid-1950s The longest siding can hold five cars. the switching puzzle is integrated into a larger My second was my take on Simplex by Chris Ellis who used to be the editor of Scale Model Trains and later Model Trains International. Does the brake van stay at the same end , if so it appears then to take no part in the puzzle. I will be using older style equipment that would have been common on American railroads through the 1960s. Try it using 8 wagons/cars. Even though this Inglenook Sidings The critical length for a run round loop able to take the same five wagon train is five wagon lengths plus twice the clearance length of a turnout plus twice the length of the loco (or twice the length of the longest wagon if that's longer). an instant shunting puzzle on your dining room My own layout is a 3-2-2 Inglenook, meaning that one siding can accommodate 3 cars and the others 2 each. 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! My other layout Braybridge lives in here on the old baseboards. Idiots! So I guess that the train starts on the through road with a spur off on both sides. He had built it many years before and it was very popular with his operating crew. In http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/26972-fiddle-yards-visible-or-hidden/ This might be the simplest track plan ever to appear in Model Railroader. the two others have a capacity of 3 wagons each. Ive been in contact with Andy Wymann regarding expanding the Inglenook - lets just say that adding just a couple of wagons rapidly expands the possible combinations from the thousands into the millions!! anywhere. I shared with you a structure that I built for that space. the capacity of the private siding isn't critical but three wagons seemed like a sensible cut to put down or pick up and having that siding on the other side of the run round and facing the opposite direction does add to the shunting challenges. For the phone ap, it is Shunting by Jeppa Teensma. 5 cards are drawn and the trains is made up in the front track. This needs to hold at least the loco plus the My Little Layout happens to match the Phone AP Inglenook exactly. So John, are you going to tell us how you made the diner? Mine uses 4 or 5 trucks, the original using 8 trucks has 6,720 different shunting orders possible and was the brainchild of Alan Wright (1928 2005) so no shortage of shunting options. Inglenook variations and diversions! Keep up the good work. 6-8 people in O scale costs $25; that runs into big bucks when I need about a hundred or more! Im an eraser, not a sketcher. For those who wonder how much fun can be had on a very small layout with only two sets of points (turnouts, switches) and no runaround; There is a free phone/tablet AP in the Google Play Store called Inglenook Sidings. that any individual creativity is best expressed in the The two other yard spurs each hold three 40-footers, with half a car or so to spare. & LAYOUT SIZE. If you want to run with more variation, then 3. virtual block needs to be introduced - this could be a The board in the garage is 6' x 1' widening after 2' to 18" inches at the end (if that sounds confusing please see the plans below). street crossing which may not be traversed during This can be a leased Alco or Electro-Motive Division switcher, or an ancient 0-6-0 spending its last few years shuffling cars around the docks. Look in the spare rails pile and find I have a curved set of Electrofrog and a short Electrofrog Y pull them onto the plan and mess around with lengths to make sure I have room for 5 x trucks on the long siding and space for 3 x trucks on the other 2 sidings. Click for larger images. A huge thank you to John for sharing his inglenook layout what a post, and what a project. whether or not that wagon needs to be loaded or, My little layout is set around a small town with a couple of industries. It is my opinion that Inglenook Sidings has been copied (in one form or another) far more often than the Timesaver has. with a 2 cars plus loco length headshunt will Operation is designed to work with eight wagons across the two sidings. Expanded polystyrene packaging carved, covered with Plaster of Paris, painted and coated with sawdust made the landscape. This was a happy little accident to quote the late Bob Ross. Ha. two sidings holding 2 cars each, which together works just as well outside the boundaries of On my side of the pond, the common shunting layout is the Timesaver introduced by John Allen in 1971. points. Copyright 2011 - 2022, Free model railroad layout plans pics and tips. Im an editor, not a writer. I still enjoy seeing what you are all up to, even after all these years. 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. OFFICE OF THE TRAFFIC COMMISSIONER WEST MIDLANDS Correspondence should be addressed to: Office of the Traffic Commissioner West Midlands Hillcrest House 386 Harehills Lane In the early morning rain, N Scale Bangor For some added operation, when youve finished switching the wharf track, try spotting one or two of the remaining cars at the warehouses along the back track. shunting puzzle based on Inglenook Sidings http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/366/entry-5960-neptune-road-micro-inglenook/ These are sharp for American practice but with the small equipment that I planned to use, they are perfect for the project. Time left: 6d 19h | Starting bid: 120.00 [ 0 bids] Bid amount - Enter 120.00 or more. British practice might favour it in many locations and it avoids the need for catch points. Dec 12, 2007 #1 For quite a . 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! Plus: the track layout is so versatile This includes layouts which are built as a train shunting puzzle such as Timesaver and Inglenook Sidings; Common variations: On a point to point layout, the train can increase the time it takes to get from A to B by going around a continuous loop a few times. Jerry, I feel your pain in more ways than one. So I hope youll consider the Port of Brunswick RR, either as a standalone shelf layout or as part of a larger model railroad. Very clever and very well done. I found this on the Model Trains Interactive page and its been built by Colin Peake. 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. However Pacific231G's double-ended Inglenook really makes it interesting. The railroad receives cars from the Southern Ry. can start to expand quite rapidly. In my case I also had an extra set of cards to define the number of cars on each siding for the complex mode. All stock is Kadee fitted with uncoupling magnets fitted at the throats of the sidings. Best wishes to you and all your followers. Ill be coming back to these three to draw inspiration from for my layout. I'm using American HO stuff, so there's only room for a 3-2-2 version. turning it into a sitting duck. It is a shame that I live about 4000 miles away from you or I would volunteer in a heartbeat. But if I end up with an around the walls configuration there will be an Inglenook for sure. can fiddle around with the track capacities, and Peco points - various long and medium good condition second hand stuff acquired over the years. So I've definately plumped for operational interest and passenger services, and made the sidings a little longer than the 5-3-3 normal limitations of the inglenook. 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. 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. Take care. 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. 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