Inglenook Sidings Plan

Operations on this simple layout can be amazingly complicated and interesting.

Inglenook sidings plan.

Carl arendt the late master of micro layout design subjected the inglenook formula to some practical testing and found that it can be cut down to one siding holding 3 cars and two sidings holding 2 cars each which together with a 2 cars plus loco length headshunt will still provide operating interest when forming a three car train from a total of five cars randomly placed in the sidings. If you look at mine signature it might not look like an inglenook at first glance. See more ideas about inglenook model railroad model railway. The other two sidings has a capacity of two cars apiece.

Maybe the odd short bogie wagon could be used bringing in some new machinary for. Inglenook sidings created by alan wright is a model railway train shunting puzzle. 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. On a 3 2 2 inglenook layout the longest siding has a capacity of three cars.

Make it interesting make it different. It consists of a specific track layout a set of initial conditions a defined goal and rules which must be obeyed while performing the shunting operations. I also wouldn t get too hung up about keeping the length of the sidings to the 3 3 4 of the traditional inglenook. To be a classical wrightian inglenook track 1 should hold five cars and tracks 2 and 3 each hold three cars.

Something other than 12 opens and vans. A inglenook layout has two turnouts consisting of three sidings. An inglenook just specifies siding length nothing about what else you can or cant put in the scene. As long as you stick with the limitation whilst you re shunting then slightly longer sidings would let you have a bit more variety in your wagon fleet i e.

The head shunt yard lead holds three cars plus a switching locomotive you may need to extend the head shunt as shown in dotted lines above.