https://blog.model-train-help.com/2014/12/single-or-double-track-your-model-railroad.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=single-or-double-track-your-model-railroad Model railroads and model trains Tue, 13 Jan 2015 13:07:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.model-train-help.com/2014/12/single-or-double-track-your-model-railroad.html#comment-8337 Tue, 13 Jan 2015 13:07:57 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=3409#comment-8337 [not specifically a reply to the comment] I became very conscious of single vs double track taking the Canadian west from Toronto area to Vancouver. It is all single track with passenger traffic ranking below freight. Zoom… stop…zoom… stop. A good half the travel time was spent on sidings waiting for freight from the opposite direction to pass.

]]> https://blog.model-train-help.com/2014/12/single-or-double-track-your-model-railroad.html#comment-8301 Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:40:52 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=3409#comment-8301 2 track system is wonderful. Depending on your space it gives you more places to go even if it is still the main line around your layout. Two track systems allow separate operation where you do not have to worry about separation from other trains. When connecting these tracks together, it gives you the opportunity to change how your train goes around the layout while on the move or get to a switching opportunity that would be on the other track. On my layout it is basically a 2 track system that can be run as a single track loop style or in a dog-bone style route (one way on one track and the other way on the other track Guest would not know it was a dogbone route as it makes several passes around the garage. By using the same system I also include a single track enroute where I must run some operations through that area just as many real proto-types do. The other reason of switching to single track for this operation is to allow less space that might cover up important areas on levels below. (my case was to eliminate one of 2 bridges needed in that area I really didn’t have room for both. Now I can hold a train for another while waiting for the track to clear. An example would be a 2 track system that runs into a tunnel but there is only room for one track through that tunnel. You know it costs more to bore 2 tunnels through tha rock.(The moffut tunnel out west is that kind of tunnel. I can also switch to the opposite track say to allow the passenger train to make the stop at a station platform or change the route up a head in my case will later be extending my layout on some modular’s that will continue on into the other bay of the garage for extra track-age when my railroad friends come over. I sure am not going to waste those presious mudular’s from when I was in a model railroad club. Yes 2 track systems are wonderful and they are even better when they work more changes in your operation so you are not getting dizzy watching them make the rounds and rounds and rounds so to speak..

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