Operation and maintenance
Creating a Model Railroad Employee Timetable
As part of preparing for a more prototypical op-session for the model railroad club I belong to, creating an Employee Timetable is important for its success. I am using Penn-Central and Conrail ETT's as a guide, but I have a few questions about them. I am attempting to understand certain columns in a Conrail ETT(dated April 1, 1976). The column headings on the list of station and their location (by Milepost) have me puzzled. They are Interlockings, Interlocking Station, Block Stations, Train Order Signals, Hand Operated Crossover Switches.
Using Track Warrants - How Rule 93 (Yard Limits) under NORAC effects their use
I am starting a separate thread on this specific topic, though it was mentioned in the other thread because this might be a more detailed discussion on this topic, and it is not what the title of the original thread.
Do you run at scale speeds?
My prototype has a speed restriction of 25mph in place of the entire subdivision that I model.
Nice and slow, see, that's the way.
I was wanting to confirm that my speed was appropriate and so today I picked up a speed calculator app for my iPhone (ModelSpeed).
I discovered that, in fact, I am running too slow. But an actual scale 25mph FEELS too fast. A scale 18mph is much better to me. I'm going to enact the selective compression of time act of 2014 and say my 18mph is 25.
Understanding Track Warrants
The only reference I have using Track Warrants is watching the video of Joe Fugate's Siskiyou Line.
From the examples of model railroad Track Warrants, the line Work Between Town (BLANK) and Town (BLANK), how does that make sense if a train needs to work only in one town?
Run before you're done?
On another thread someone was saying that all too often modelers these days are afraid to run trains until their layouts are finished and perfectly detailed. It was also suggested that this makes a smaller layout preferable to a big one because it takes a loonnnnggggg time to finish a monster layout.
Well, there is certainly some validity to this opinion, but one should never make broad sweeping statements ... (oops... I just made one). I mean, there are often exceptions to the rule(s)...
List of Industries, loads, and car types?
Is there an online resource that lists various industries and the railroad related traffic they use?
Basically I'm looking for a list that I can use to populate my waybills with legitimate traffic.
Ideally this would include
- Shipper (load origin, including city)
- Receiver (load destination, including city)
- Product (what is being shipped)
- Type of car used to move the product
- Bill
Anyone using a modern work order system for operations?
Just curious to know if anyone out there has implemented a modern prototypical style work order system for switching industries using local trains? I have seen what a class 1 railroad crew uses for for a work order when switching industries in real life. I am thinking I would like to implement a similar system on my own layout over a system like the the car card system.
Jody
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