Mike has sent in details about his 14th Street Yard HO layout:

This HO layout represents a small yard in the downtown area of an American city I’m not going to name. The Yard is surrounded by various industries, most of whom use the railroad for delivery or despatch.

The track plan is based on the ‘Timesaver’ concept pioneered over 60 years ago by John Allen. The layout is not only a model railway but a fascinating logic puzzle.

Each industry and freight car is assigned a coloured pin. The object of the game is to match the coloured pins on the tops of the cars with the coloured pins at the industry. (The car with a red pin goes to the industry with a red pin and so on.)

The game is over when all the pins match. The game is restarted by changing the pins on the cars and beginning again.

Other rules:

1) All moves at realistic speed.
2) No touching by hand including uncoupling.
3) The grade crossings can only be blocked for a maximum of 4 moves.
4) Cars are only sent to realistic locations. (A flatcar of timber is unlikely to be delivered to a book publisher!)

Details:

• Locos Atlas & Athearn Lifelike(Mostly sound equipped)
• Freight cars Athearn, Atlas, Lifelike, Roundhouse, Bachmann, Walthers etc.
• Track Peco Code 83.
• DCC NCE (North Coast Engineering) Analogue KPC
• Buildings Scratch built or from Walthers Kits.
• Scenery Woodland Scenics and Polyfilla

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