What size turnouts for a yard?

[Rico]

The 1/1 yard I worked in had #5's and handled 100 ton coal cars and six axle diesels with ease.
I use #6's on my HO scale yard with #4's in industries.
everytime you go up a number your yard lead gets a little longer.

[TheGloriousTachikoma]

Originally Posted by Rico

The 1/1 yard I worked in had #5's and handled 100 ton coal cars and six axle diesels with ease.
I use #6's on my HO scale yard with #4's in industries.
everytime you go up a number your yard lead gets a little longer.

What was the speed limit through those things though?

#6's are okay for a yard if you make a compound ladder. Four tracks in the length of two turnouts

[railfan]

My N scale six axle locomotives can barrel through multiple #4 atlas switches at maximum speed pulling a 35 car train without derailments most of the time. That's not very realistic though. Real trains weigh much more per scale and the dynamics are obviously different.

(assuming what atlas calls a standard switch is #4)



Mike

[Y3a]

Being a rabid Steam guy, I use #6's in the yard and for sidings, and #8's for mainline crossover pairs.

[Cjcrescent]

Originally Posted by Y3a

Being a rabid Steam guy, I use #6's in the yard and for sidings, and #8's for mainline crossover pairs.

I was going to use #5's in the yards and #8's on the mains. It seems thou that #6's wound up in the yard when they were installed, and I still had the same # of tracks. The footprint of the yard wound up a little wider, but I could spare the room. All my other spurs are still #5's however. And I still have #8's and a couple of #9's on the mains.