Inglenook Sidings Puzzle

There may in fact be some modellers who never really look into this shunting puzzle because it may at first sight hardly.

Inglenook sidings puzzle. The hidden siding or storage area is located towards the back of the layout behind the head shunt. This shunting puzzle layout is just 45x7 inches in size but using the. Inch for inch a switching layout built on a small bookshelf provides more action than perhaps any other form of model railroading. If space is available north american prototype modellers might prefer to opt for more common motive power such as the gp7 9.

These pages allow you to operate a version of each of my two layouts the skowhegan athens and riverside yard on screen. The hidden siding measures two feet in length so it can accommodate a two carriage multiple unit the longest being the class 15x or 17x traction. The other two sidings has a capacity of two cars apiece. A inglenook layout has two turnouts consisting of three sidings.

The most salient feature of inglenook sidings the classic british shunting puzzle par excellence is its sheer simplicity in terms of track layout. Model railroad switching puzzle. 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. This feature is not available right now.

December 12 2013 by carl arendt. They are written in javascript which means that they will run when the pages are opened no downloads or such are required. Please try again later. Inglenook sidings concept calls for as small a layout as possible.

The switching lead has a capacity of two cars plus the locomotive. And not surprisingly the grandaddy of all small portable layouts was exactly this kind of layout built in 1926 in england by a r. The inglenook south shunting puzzle layout features a hidden siding.