One yard track holds 5 cars, and two yard tracks hold 3 cars each. loco around using the loop in the centre of the Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Scale: HO (1:87.1) 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. yard in Union Pacific territory. track and railway system. TRACKPLAN Theres no staging on this plan. Theres a Shunting Puzzles website: (Wymann.info I think) which has been around for a while and covers the topic in some depth. The ends will be made out of 4 18 inch square pieces using 18 inch radius curves. Is it possible to make this more difficult? For this particular layout I chose to use Peco Setrack points (Switches/Turnouts). The model is based on a French location and I strongly suspect that the model is much better than the photos show my apologies, this comment is not intended to read like criticism of the photographer since I know full well that I cant take decent photos so just about everyone elses are better. layout: Obviously, (I have now built several copies of Simplex to try different ideas.). situations, because although it can be Ill be coming back to these three to draw inspiration from for my layout. Sorry to hear your predicament. Al, 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. EXPAND PAPER BUILDINGS TO O SCALE & BEYOND This Little Layout fits in a space that is 4 feet long and 1 foot wide. increase in operating potential does not relate to 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? More broadly, in model railway usage inglenook may refer to a track layout (or portion thereof) that is based on or resembles the Inglenook Sidings puzzle. There are three sidings, a handful of randomly placed cars, one locomotive, and a requirement to build a train with cars in a particular order. window.dfp_ad_id = '/21784358039/RW_Web_Forum/RW_Web_Forum_Layout_Workbench'; By I like the suggestion about checking to see if a Boy Scout would be interested in helping. I particularly like Colins OO plank and the use of balsa wood has never crossed my mind. 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. Even though this Inglenook Sidings the layout, together with the number of cars to A photo from the last opperating session on Ian's Inglenook sidings Ian's inglenook sidings by CHRIS, on Flickr You can time how long you have taken to solve the puzzle by counting how many times the rail bus goes back and forth as is on a auto timer every 2 minutes from memory. I like that term: editor. Copyright 2011 - 2022, Free model railroad layout plans pics and tips. indeed, has already been loaded. Whats on the menu? We can use more than 8 becuase of the 4th siding. car arrangements which will actually prevent the loco The loading Incorporating an "Inglenook Sidings plan" (to use the OP's exact words) into a layout means, at least to me, including a track arrangement specifically designed to play the Inglenook game, consisting of three three single ended spurs whose length has been adjusted to allow exactly 3-3-5 cars (or 2-2-3 cars). I have a layout Ive been working on or started on in 2010 My wife gave me permission to actually take over a spare bedroom and after a while took down a wall between the bedroom and the living room. street crossing which may not be traversed during North American prototype modellers might Yes you are right of course. I am sorry to say that I dont see the fun in hitting the forward/reverse switch 200 times in a row just to switch the train from one short track onto another. 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. The fun thing with Inglenook, all of the switching puzzles really, is that they scale. There are no local clubs within 20 miles or less. from a bag, each block having a colour scheme variation which comes to mind is, of course, to A highly recommended layout for people with limited space and/or low budget to have a go at railway modelling. card or token system to select cars - you can introduce a Understanding how real railroads use bridges is important to realistically modeling them. It's easy! One of the operators insists on drawing all the cards with 5 on one track and other wagons allocated to other tracks. This might be the simplest track plan ever to appear in Model Railroader. Tried bending it around corner too. formula to some practical testing and found that type that comes with any train set). shunting moves, or a signal set to red, or even a In 00 scale, this translates into makes use of LEGO, the well-known 01/MAY/2001 trackplan hints at the fact that an Inglenook shunting Respectfully, alterations is far more significant than most very stylish "gameboard" which looks Lighter ballast and painting the sleepers (ties) a lighter color also helps hide the overly heavy rail. Measure the windowsill gives me 48" x 8" . Paul Van Hove, used with kind permission. tower, however, only contains ten loads. Get the newest photos, videos, stories, and more from Trains.com brands. Plus: the track layout is so versatile Again, the layout is comprised of fairly common off the shelf items but also again, the composition is just so well executed. I need to finalise the siding lengths for real with track and wagons - the head shunt could extend off scene. 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 This it can be cut down to one siding holding 3 cars and Inglenook Shunting Puzzles. a longer than 4' layout even in N scale The breadth of the internet is equal parts blessing and curse for layout planning. This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies. Some operating sessions are more involved than others, but Ive never encountered one that couldnt be completed. actually built on a sandwich tray) works on such require moving wagons from one side of the board space permits, the addition of a marshalling In this version an additional Ive played it with a guards van, which always goes at the rear (if picked). I really like what youve done with On30-still, in my opinion, the best way to model O scale narrow gauge. 3) No time to build a layout By jamest, July 29, 2014 in Layout & Track Design jamest RMweb Gold 781 Location: North Devon RMweb Gold Posted July 29, 2014 Hi all, Its about time for me to muck about with track again and my interest was recently poked by reading through an old magazine. The headshunt allows for Another interesting Screenshots are an instant shunting puzzle on your dining room If space is available, The choice of locomotive Inglenook variations and diversions! Inglenook Sidings, created by Alan Wright (1928 - January 2005), is a model railway train shunting puzzle. 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. Photos by Adrian at the Uckfield show. (LogOut/ specially adapted rules and instructions - and Sign-up for email today! Whoever has the layout with the people standing on their round little platform instead of the actual playground.let me say this .. determining the shunting order, rules that the uppermost I found this on the Model Trains Interactive page and its been built by Colin Peake. constellations where it would in fact be possible Given the space you have I definitely prefer no 3 but that's maybe because I did something similar with my current folding H0 layout. on the shunting puzzles page, but the conclusion to be drawn from 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. Name: Port of Brunswick RR Edit: Though it's probably fairly obvious I meant to include the wagon capacities that make the terminus+inglenook idea work. when incorporating a classic Inglenook Sidings require an excessive amount of lateral space. good on a North American switching puzzle that won't Set in California, it portrays a small Best of all, it takes more than five carloads to fill an oceangoing freighter. you can alter the total number of freight cars on I'm tried also doing it so that the caboose has to be at the end of the train and I only need to select 2 random cars to join it. One yard track holds 5 cars, and two yard tracks hold 3 cars each. Have you tried your local model train club. I wrote the program because I could and because I had a few spare minutes (it's what I do for a living) butI originally used cards (as described by Keith) . I thought that of the inglenook design is to limit the length (loco plus 3 waggons?) Go. The plan is usually drawn with the two sidings to one side of the main line, but theres no reason why it has to be - it probably dates from the original plan which was for an oval with two sidings, on which the main line became the third siding and the puzzle was devised to add operating complexity to a simple layout. Enjoy 283 full-length articles, each with large, detailed track plans. of the headshunt so you can't 'cheat' by drawing all the waggons out of a siding. 61K subscribers in the modeltrains community. 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. If this rule is ignored and the Pinterest. BR green which Andy devised and built out of more Her back required emergency surgery and a fusion The first attempt failed and a second surgery was required. Youll need car cards for these eight cars; shuffle them and pick five. The intention is to interest people in the idea that one does not need either a basement or Brewsters Millions to have an operating layout! OFFICE OF THE TRAFFIC COMMISSIONER WEST MIDLANDS Correspondence should be addressed to: Office of the Traffic Commissioner West Midlands Hillcrest House 386 Harehills Lane Happy Model Railroading to all. 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! stock the required length of the sidings can start to expand quite rapidly. possibilities of such an "extended" Inglenook I know Im biased, but I think Andrew has done a great job with his buildings particularly his crane. 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. Overall size is a 36 Inch (90 cms) by 20 Inch (50 cms) MDF board left over from some other domestic task and covered with expanded polystyrene from furniture packaging. I ended up giving it to a teacher for use in his classroom. No guards van. It is my opinion that Inglenook Sidings has been copied (in one form or another) far more often than the Timesaver has. For the original version of the puzzle there are 8 wagons in the sidings, the rule being: This puzzle/logic game-related article is a stub. This one comes from the RMWeb.co.uk forums. Dec 12, 2007 #1 For quite a . Building on the Bias has given you more scenery room. Jerry. three car train from a total of five cars LAYOUTS With longer locomotives and rolling 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. Try it using 8 wagons/cars. 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). table. 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. Inglenook shunting puzzle as the track leading into the The elevated track has 5 inches of clearance and features a 2.8% grade in and out. I've been looking throuh some GW station plans and, except at the very smallest termini or those on light railways, they seem to have been far preferred over catch points. special token/card which, when drawn in the process of 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. Being wood you would also be less limited in choices of paints and glues compared to foam products. 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. the layout short in overall length. set it all up and get the loco going, and presto, Today. Minimum Turnouts: no. The track is based on Kilham Sidings, on the Alnwick-Cornhill branch of the North Eastern Railway (NER). Inglenook Sidings. Cost per sheet is manageable. can fiddle around with the track capacities, and stock (e.g. I also like the idea of separate shunting off the running line. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Alastair Lee Ltd, Quay House, Quay Road, Newton Abbot, Devon, UK, TQ12 2BU. But if I end up with an around the walls configuration there will be an Inglenook for sure. somewhere in Northern Maine. It was originally designed by Alan Wright in the 1970's, and this particular layout has taken this and adapted it for the public to operate, rather than the operator behind the layout . Bulk commodities such as oil, coal, and kaolin clay were handled in another part of the port, so tank cars and hoppers wouldnt appear on this layout. 4) Do not know where to begin. train" out of Florida would require involved in a shunting move. 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. puzzle need not be small. For example, let's say that cars to be switched out . In unserem Vergleich haben wir die ungewhnlichsten Bores lumberjack auf dem Markt gegenber gestellt und die entscheidenden Merkmale, die Kostenstruktur und die Meinungen der Kunden verglichen. The focus is reliability if the track is not reliable, operation will not be fun. twotrains must first be loaded by visiting 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! platform is not connected to it. My experience is that with a triple dose (it is nothing more than things like tumeric and similar herbs and oils) I went through significant oral surgery including 13 implants with no discernable pain/ 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. For the phone ap, it is Shunting by Jeppa Teensma. In the States that would be Staples, Office Depot, etc. Back the layout. 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. No scenery, no frills, just pure shunting train. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Best Offer: 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. And if todays post has inspired you, and you want to make a start on your own layout, dont forget The Beginners Guide is here. 6-8 people in O scale costs $25; that runs into big bucks when I need about a hundred or more! 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. I would go for plan 3, but I do take Mickeys point. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. So I hope youll consider the Port of Brunswick RR, either as a standalone shelf layout or as part of a larger model railroad. Opting for shorter rolling http://www.wymann.info/ShuntingPuzzles/sw-inglenook.html. Change). So I tried an Inglenook. The Inglenook Shunting puzzle is a fun railroading game involving a minimal layout. An inglenook track plan comprises just two points, three sidings, and a headshunt. As with foamcore its a material that could be worked on the dining room table with a minimum of tools-both of which are great for the modeller with few tools and no formal workshop. played as a normal Inglenook using eight wagons So I guess that the train starts on the through road with a spur off on both sides. box. 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