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 The mother of all freight yards. This laterally compressed take on the NYC's Selkirk, NY yard is still 238ft in length and 37ft in width (this is 2.2 scale miles by 0.34 scale miles). This re-creation uses GarGraves track and GarGraves O42 turnouts for most of the switches in the yard ladders; Ross Custom Switches Wyes are employed as feeders in the classification units. In all there are 2793 track sections, 426 turnouts of all types, an estimated 1750 sections of GarGraves straight track along with a number of full size and sectional curves. We conservatively estimate that the total capacity of all of the yard components, assuming standard O-gauge freight cars with length 12 inches, is 4000 units. Estimated track cost is $18,000. While we do not believe someone will actually construct a detailed O-scale model of this yard, the individual yard units are both interesting and instructive in designing your own classification yards.
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