Inglenook Sidings Puzzle

A inglenook layout has two turnouts consisting of three sidings.

Inglenook sidings puzzle.

Inglenook sidings created by alan wright 1928 january 2005 is a model railway train shunting puzzle us. Inglenook sidings concept calls for as small a layout as possible. The inglenook south shunting puzzle layout features a hidden siding. These pages allow you to operate a version of each of my two layouts the skowhegan athens and riverside yard on screen.

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. If space is available north american prototype modellers might prefer to opt for more common motive power such as the gp7 9. This shunting puzzle layout is just 45x7 inches in size but using the. They are written in javascript which means that they will run when the pages are opened no downloads or such are required.

The hidden siding or storage area is located towards the back of the layout behind the head shunt. December 12 2013 by carl arendt. Inch for inch a switching layout built on a small bookshelf provides more action than perhaps any other form of model railroading. There may in fact be some modellers who never really look into this shunting puzzle because it may at first sight hardly.

Shunting puzzle culm valley model railway club this layout is based on the design called inglenook sidings which combines a seemingly simple layout with a clever design in problem solving. 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. Model railroad switching puzzle. The other two sidings has a capacity of two cars apiece.

On a 3 2 2 inglenook layout the longest siding has a capacity of three cars. The switching lead has a capacity of two cars plus the locomotive. This feature is not available right now.