I built a scale track for my classification yard. I had planned to install it on the drill track(double ended) so coal trains could weigh on their way in or out of the yard. However, there will also be a 4 track coal yard opposite from the classification yard (single end) that will handle most of the coal traffic, shouldn’t it be on the coal yard lead? I’m admittedly not familiar with scale tracks to know where the prototype would have had one in the 1960-70’s period. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
No specific idea on the US side, but in Europe we put these where less switching is required to weigh the cars, naturally not on the main line. This principle would probably be applied everywhere.
This makes the most sense, and why it had occurred to me to move it from the drill track for the main classification yard to the lead connecting the coal yard. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Here in Everett Washington at Bayside yard is on it's own lead by the yard office Tied in on the south end of the switching lead and the north end takes it back into a yard track see if I can get a photo for you
