Does anyone have a working hump yard in N scale? Show us your pictures! (I think this topic was covered on the Atlas forum but we all know how available that is now )
Hello, I personally don't have one but, there's a club not to far away that does. Their name is Ci-N-Trak, I think I have a photo or two of it. I'll look and see. It does work, when I seen them at sohws they operated it several times. Happy Rails, Rick
What I did for a club layout in new york years ago was use an air tank and very small flexible clear plastic tube (like what they use for model planes). I drilled holes on he inside of the track and aimed the air flow to push against the wheels as they came down the hump. Less then 5PSI as I remember. Used a button to activate the valve and puff of air came out. Worked very well. Ira
I have built a hump yard that just uses an uncoupling magnet and gravity to operate. It doesn't operate flawlessly, but it doesn't look too bad. Cars are pushed up the incline to the magnet When the car reaches the peak and starts down the the other side of the hump, there is a short period where the slack action in the coupler from the pushing engines and gravity working with the slope ahead causes the cars to separate from the rest of the train and descend into the classification tracks below. There is no braking action from retarders of any kind on my layout, but perhaps some ingenius soul could figure something out.
I'm thinking that the hump is about 1 1/2" high, but that is just a guess. I'll try to remember to measure it tomorrow.
