AnyRail 6 Tutorial Video 24: Designing A Simple Yard
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- This is from a request by a subscriber. They wanted to know how to design a simple five track yard. I talk about how to figure out the spacing for #4 and #6 switches and how to figure out what kind of filler piece of track to use if necessary.
These are the best tutorials of a software product I've ever seen. You go into more detail about functions of AnyRail greater than any other videos on RUclips. AnyRail should be thanking you. You're a great advertisement for their product. Thank you. I look forward to future tutorials.
Matt, thank you very much. I am having a blast doing these but with all the time I have spent doing them I still have not finished designing my railroad which was the whole point when I started this series. Oh well, such is life. There are more on the way soon. Dave
Thanks for doing these. I’m really looking forward to your future videos on yards and Anyrail. Any charts that you do for the yards can just be displayed here and we can take screenshots to save them.
Hi
I love your Anyrail videos because you go into detail, that’s where all others failed me. Thanks for all your hard work making these videos for us. I have seen almost all your videos to date, but I think I heard you say in one, that you sometimes update your videos when you learn something new about a pasted video of yours. If this is so I would hate to have missed something new, is there a way we would know a video we had watched had been updated later? Maybe a video #100 where we could see a list of all video numbers that were updated & when. Just a thought.
Thanks again Michael
Hi Michael, glad you like the videos. I did mention that I wanted to do a video called something like 'Things I've Learned' in which I would go over techniques I picked up after I made the other videos. I do plan on doing that video and I am making a list. Hopefully I'll get to it soon and when I post it, I'll come up with some weird title that will let you know what it is about. Dave
Dear Steam Powered Radio,
congratulations for all the videos! I'm trying to learn how to use AnyRail well and your Channel is a great resource.
I love American railways, but being Italian I lack some information; I hope you can help me with this data that I'm missing:
1.
For a double track main line, in H0, what is the correct distance between the centerlines?
I think 2" (5.08 cm.) if I examine the Walthers and Peco double crossovers.
2.
Generally, what is the width of a platform in a station and what is the recommended centerline for the too tracks at its sides?
I apologize for the inconvenience, but I have some doubts...
Thank you so much, see you soon!
Hi sorry I didn't respond sooner. 2 inches is about right but you have to have a little more distance on curves and that distance also depends on the radius of the curve. As for your second question, I don't know. I would look for info from one of the many model railroad design groups out there. Dave
My other way is use marklin C Track. Much more friendly.
On the 2" center diagram I think you need to "shave" the last switch as the ones previous to get the curve that you want (overlap the curve).
Hi, I think I get what you are talking about. Unfortunately, Anyrail does not allow you to save a edited part as a new part. You can over lap switches and track to get the curve that you need but you can't take an existing switch and cut it to the length you need and then save it and attach track to the new end. This is a major failing in the program. If someone knows how to edit a track component I wish they would tell me or do a video on it so all of us would know. I think when you are laying out a yard on your benchwork, the Anyrail plan is just a suggestion at best as to where everything is going. For me, I will do the yard track lines, tack the track down, add the switch and adjust my track and figure cut points with the actual track in front of me. Should work just fine. Maybe a future update of Anyrail will allow us to edit track components. Dave
I think that your major problem is the orientation of the first switch, straight section horizontal, and second switch, straight section at the switch turn angle. All the subsequent switches are at the switch turn angle. Therefore, you need to do what you are doing for the first switch, then repeat for the second switch. Then you can repeat the process for the subsequent switches based on the second switch.
Hi Earl, Not exactly sure what you mean or why there is a problem. I think you are saying cascade the switches off the straight section. I did this in Video 14F albeit at slight angle and I still needed a small filler to achieve the track separation that I wanted. I'll play around with that style of design and see what I come up with. Dave
@@steampoweredradio2981 I am not say that you don't need a filler, just that the filler for the first track and the second track would be different because the orientation of the switches are different. All subsequent fillers would be the same as the second filler.
@@earlcory Earl, Not sure I understand why. With a Walthers code 83 the diverging track is essentially a straight piece of track. Using 2.5" as an example for track spacing, #6 switch, I can cascade a series of left hand switches from the starting switch which is a right hand and my error, with precision set to 1/64 of an inch, is only 1/64 of an inch. Same with a #4 and a 2.5" filler. When you go over 5 tracks then a bit of error starts to creep in with 1 to 3/32". I would think that most people, least of all me, are going to lay their track with 1/32 or 1/64" accuracy. Just cutting the fillers is going to introduce some error and who knows if each switch is an exact copy dimensionally of the next one. Now, if we are talking a switch with a curved diverging track then all bets are off since I have not done any work in AnyRail with those or in real life since I used N gauge Peco track to build a railroad in 1981. Dave
@@steampoweredradio2981 I see. I use Atlas turnouts that have a curved divergent track, so the orientation of the the turnout effects the size of the filler. Keep up the AnyRail tutorials, they are very beneficial.
@@earlcory Earl, I thought it might be something like that. Your comments got me thinking about the type of turnout and I think I will do a video soon using turnouts with curved diverging tracks. If you have any measurements for the Atlas you want to share I'll use them in the video and give you credit. So many track manufacturers and so little time to cover them all! Thanks, Dave
Why do you make look so difficult when it only involves connecting several turnouts and some curve and straight track together?
Mike, Wow! It only involves connecting some turnouts and straight and curve tracks!? Such insight! Why didn’t I think of that? Maybe you should be making videos on AnyRail because you apparently have such a deep, innate and clear understanding of the whole process. C’mon, why not just give it up? You are obviously not the type of person who needs accuracy in your design. That’s fine. Some people want that accuracy and that’s why I show how to do it. I’m not going to change the way I describe how to do things. If you know so much about this whole process, why are you watching the videos? I mean, I don’t care if you do and I don’t care if you make inane comments, I rather enjoy them, but why bother if you are not getting anything out of the videos? By the way, in one of your comments you mentioned the KISS principle because you didn’t want to have to do the math of dividing up the lengths of flex track on the drawing by the ‘real world’ flex track lengths. Here’s a little test for you to try. It might make you want to stop using AnyRail. Take a piece of flex and drop it into the workspace. Now, bend it to 90 degrees and make it any radius 25” and over. Look at the length of the piece. Uh oh. Here comes that math. Try it with a longer easement, same problem. Now try a helix. Same thing. That pretty much means you have to kiss the KISS principle goodbye. Besides, are you really saying you would only build every section of your layout with 39” (or whatever) pieces of flex so you don’t have to do any math on figuring out how many pieces of track you need? Really? Once again I’ll end my comment with, hope your design works out OK and the same with your railroad. Take care, Dave
My, do you have thin skin! Granted there are people that can't think past there nose so they may need your complicated instructions to complete a very simple process. Rest assured I did not waste my time to completely watching your video. Most people can look at a layout and construct it without your detailed over explained instructions. I would suggest you focus your instructions on wiring DC and keeping the polarity in line. Cutting and joining flex track. By stretching and shrinking flex track instead of grabbing individual track pieces you invalidate the list of materials.
Marklin is a much better way enjoy model railroading.
@@mikedulle1149 Mike, Hmmm, I think you and I have vastly different definitions of ‘Thin Skin’. I only answer your comments because I find them highly amusing. I too find instructional videos that don’t offer information that I need, so, I will not watch the whole thing either. But I don’t fault the presenter. I find it interesting that you have watched so many of mine that give you no additional insight into how to use AnyRail. Why? As to ‘Most people can look at a layout and construct it without your detailed over explained instructions’, then why aren’t you doing that exact thing? Why are you using AnyRail for your design? If you like Marklin track, more power to you. There are dozens of different types of track in the AnyRail libraries. I use Walthers, so that is what I use in my demos. It’s up to the viewer to take the basic info and apply it to whatever they are using. I have neither the time nor inclination to make videos that cover every possible combination of track. Now, as to making videos on DCC or cutting or joining track, the answer is, why would I? There are tons of channels out there that cover those subjects far better than I can. I am just starting to use DCC, so I will be looking for channels that offer lots of details. I mean really, just how many CV values are there? Now, as for AnyRail, there are just a couple of other videos on its use. Maybe you should check them out too. So, let me offer some advice. This is what we used to tell callers at every radio station I ever worked at. We would get calls that went something like this, ‘I don’t like that song you’re playing, play something I like’ or ‘I don’t like the news story you just ran. You should report it this way so I can like it’ and on and on and on. Our response? ‘That’s what the button on your radio is for. If you don’t like it, change the channel’. In other words, we didn’t care. So, if you don’t like my content, I suggest you use your left mouse button and find a channel that you like. We can continue this conversation if you want, it’s fun, but it is also completely useless. Now excuse me, I have to start writing a very detailed script on how to set up the grid system in AnyRail so that it is more useful to the user. That grid system is kinda weird. Take care, Dave.
You spent way too much time responding to what you consider my ignorant comment. It's amazing you are so defensive.
Peace!
@@mikedulle1149 Mike, same to you. Let’s agree to disagree. Dave
Still no #23 LOL
Hi Ron, I think I counted the little thank you video that I did as video 24 in my record keeping. Dave