How To Build a Model Railroad Designing a yard ladder

Designing a yard ladder

By Steven Otte associate editor | April 8, 2021

Different ways of arranging turnouts yield different yard capacities

Pencil sketches show three possible arrangements of turnouts in a 1 x 5-foot staging yard

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