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Reading the "Forum clinic: Designing for satisfying operations" is quite interesting for me, but it is discussing a style of operations quite different from what we've been planning for our under-construction-layout. We're doing a 'closed world' i.e. there are no staging tracks or interchanges with places that exist 'off the table'. We presume such interchanges do exist (somewhere 'off the table' [:)] ) to allow some foreign cars to run, but the backbone of the operations will be based around shipping raw goods and finished products between various places that are all on the layout. This does include frieghthouses at the ports which can handle any type of in- or out-bound freight, but the cars always stay in the layout 'world'. We have 3 railroads represented, with a small interchange yards at the junctions at each end of the connecting line. Traffic is determined by when there is a call for a car at a receiving point from one of the shipping points (the reverse of car card systems), and organised by priority moves rather than a timetable. For instance, the first priority move on the Ered line is moving a full string of loaded coal cars out of the mine (in the steam age, coal is the backbone of everything; engineyards, docks, industries and small coal merchants always need the stuff). And the first run of the day on the Old Forest Ry. is the milkrun. Otherwise, the top priority on all lines is moving a full train out of the interchange yard as soon as its at full length, and empty coal cars go minewards ASAP, and so on. We'll be developing a full priority list, with passenger and express freight thrown in to liven things up. Does any one else operate something like this? Regards, Maureen
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