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So I made an operational breakthrough today! Before this, local LE-2 left at the very beginning of the session with cars the through freights dropped off the day before. If LE-2 had to wait until cars from both Concord and White River Jct. were dropped off to depart, it would still be switching a half-hour after the rest of the trains had finished their runs. Therefore I had the local run with cars from the previous day. But, If I stage the cars from WRJ headed to Concord in Lebanon Yard before the session starts, as if the Claremont-Concord transfer dropped off the cars before the session, the local can depart as soon as CDWJ arrives in the yard to drop off local cars. CDWJ will still take WRJ-bound cars there, but it will return light engine to Lebanon Yard, pick up the Concord-bound cars from the CCRR transfer job and the previous day's local, and depart for Concord.The total gain from all this is that I save the entire extra local consist (about 8 cars) that can then go into making the through freights longer, adding cars to the local, and providing more cars to pick up. Right now the through freights jumped from 5 to 7 cars...not a big gain but the visual effect is much better!
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