I've been trying to decide how faithfully to try to reproduce the Keokuk yard
(reduced number of tracks is a given). At the time I'm modelling, there are
two freight trains daily -- one northbound, one southbound. From the operating
data sheets published by the BRHS, it looks as though the Keokuk cars would be
on the head-end of both trains. Can anyone suggest to me the moves that would
be involved in removing these cars and placing them in the yard for local
delivery, and as well those moves that would be involved in placing outbound
cars into the train. I believe Keokuk had an assigned yard switcher so I
suspect that it would do the work rather than the road engine (I may be wrong
on that though). Specifically, I'd like to know where the road engine might
wait while the cars were being switched in and out, whether the waycar would be
removed (there doesn't seem to be a waycar track in Keokuk), and whether the
whole train would likely have been pulled onto the switching lead or only part
with the rest left on the main or an arrival track. The more detailed the
responses the better, as it will let me know exactly which tracks and switches
I need to include and which can be "compressed" out.
Duncan Cameron
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