Jan and Bill
One nite I caught a local with a retired conductor. I think was fazzled him
was he could see the whole town and what had to be done but he had no idea
where to start. You have to plan your work so you make the least amount of
moves count. In model form we do not have to release hand brakes, pump air off
or turn angle cocks and make air hoses.
Working with the real thing you can tell the crews who work together and know
what they are doing and I gave them the breaks. Gary and Bob Know
sjh
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From: Bill Hirt
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: New file uploaded to CBQ
jwestkohl wrote:
> Bill, this is a great took, and I was quite pleased to see it was for
> the K-line!
>
> Quick question. Could someone do a quick tutorial for us non-rr types
> so we can understand how to do it? Let's take an example of dropping
> off 2 Burlington LO hoppers at MFA feed in Elsberry, (coming from W.
> Quincy), and picking up an MP XM from the same location.
>
Jan,
I'll give you an example of how it is done on my model railroad. The
hoppers would be switched by local on the line. The local has the
waybills or car order for the cars to be set at MFA feed. The station
agent has prepared the waybill for the pull at MFA Feed.
So in practice on my model layout, the local crew (I have an engineer
and conductor on the local) pull into town based on permission/orders
from the dispatcher. They call the dispatcher on the phone to let
him/her know of their arrival. They'll check their timetable and orders
for any superior trains and then go to work. The crew will line up the
set outs for MFA Feed and other industries at Elsberry. They'll check
the bill box for pick ups. They'll pull the pick ups and add the card
cards/waybills to their train pack. Once they have set out the hoppers,
they put the car cards/waybills for the hoppers in the set out box.
Since all my Elsberry industries are on the same house track, usually
the conductor will create a switch list to keep track of what cars are
to be pulled, which cars remain in Elsberry (and where they are
spotted), and what cars in the local are to be spotted.
Every crew does it differently just like the prototype as the
active/retried railroaders who operate on my layout like to remind me.
Bill Hirt
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