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Re: (erielack) More yard questions
Think that was the New York Society of Model Engineers, formerly of
Hoboken and then of Carlstadt. I remember visiting there back in the
early 1960's after the move from Hoboken and seeing the pneumatic retarders.
Ken B.
On 12/17/2010 6:20 AM, Paul Brezicki wrote:
> Bison was not just the most modern EL yard, it was the only modern EL
> yard. All the rest were old flat yards or manual retarder. I don't
> believe I've ever seen a scale diagram of Bison. Steve, do you know of
> anything in the Archives?
>
> An entire hump yard is way too big for most people to model, and as
> you point out, the physics does not support realistic operation in
> 1/87 scale. There is/was a model RR club in the NY area (Model RR Club
> of NJ?) that modeled an operating hump yard. For retarders they used a
> network of tubes terminating between the rails blowing air. It was
> ingenius and I admire them for trying, but I've seen a video and what
> happens is the car careens down the hump at warp speed, destroying any
> semblance of realism and IMO making the whole exercise rather pointless.
>
> Much more practical is to model a smaller secondary yard located on a
> mainline that serves a small to medium-size city and/or region, such
> as Akron, Gang Mills, Binghamton and Scranton. Some trains run
> through, others stop and s/o p/u cars, and locals and perhaps one or
> two through trains can be made up. Such facilities can provide endless
> hours of operating enjoyment.
>
> Paul B
>
>
> From: Bradley Butcher <llyengalyn_@_hotmail.com>
> Subject: (erielack) More yard questions
>
> So while I was looking into Marion yard, Bison yard occured to me. Was
> Bison the most modern of EL's yard facilities? I see a basic diagram
> of Bison in EL in color Vol 2. But it has not scale and is kind of
> hard to read. Does anyone have a lead on an easier to study track
> diagram? I'm kind of striking out on google. Google keeps leading me
> to the NS rebuild diagram, not the correct historical connatation.
>
> Still struggleing with myself in my design of an EL HO layout. I think
> it would be really neat to have a yard included, but they take up so
> much dang space. Perhaps a justification could be to do "open staging"
> and have the yard be the staging area at one end and therefore free up
> more realestate for it.
>
> Might consider making a non-functioning part of it the hump yard as
> they are pretty neat, but require something like divine intervention
> to make work on a model as I understand.
>
> Brad Butcher
> ELHS 3900
>
>
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