QUOTE: Originally posted by cmrproducts . This eliminates the Tank Car being spotted at the cattle pens that is unless the operator just doesn’t care what he is doing and I have had this happen. Although that operator was not ask to come back again. BOB H – Clarion, PA
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QUOTE: Originally posted by cmrproducts One of the problems I can see with the Car Cards is that IF you don’t remove the Waybills from the Car Card pocket each time the sequence is run (2 sided or 4 sided cards) then the same car just goes round and round to the same industries time and time again.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by jfugate John: In my opinion, unless you have a cadre of people that are familiar with your railroad AND experienced in prototype operations, trying to do car cards, fast clock, and timetables with a dispatcher is trying to do too much. What I did at first with the Siskiyou Line is ran a fast clock and trains in sequence and a dispatcher who just reported fast time. As the owner of the layout, I walked around and played referee, while we just ran things and timed them to the fast clock the first session. The idea was for people to get familar with the layout and for us to find out how long things took per fhe fast clock. I'd say, "Okay, the next train out is the Siskiyou Line west out of Eugene". We'd get a crew and they would run the train. I'd say, "Okay, run Eugene to Rice Hill". At each town, they would report to the dispatcher and he would record the fast clock time. No car cards, no timetable. We were learning the railroad and how long things took. We ran a couple of sessions very lose like this just to build up some familiarity with the layout. Next, we added Track Warrants for the dispatcher. When you switched an industry, you just swapped a car one for one, or did what you felt like doing. We ran like this for a year. After building up a year's worth of exerience with the layout, in the second year, I added car cards. Easing into operations in this fashion minimized frustration and made things more fun for people, with new things to look forward to as well. By second year of operations, we had a some regulars who knew the railroad well and were comfortable with adding more complexity. It's important to go slow because it takes time for people to really learn the layout and the operating procedures. After a year's time, my crew had approximately 40 hours of experience operating the railroad. On the prototype, you know what they call someone who has a grand total of 40 hours experience? Rookie! [swg]
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QUOTE: Originally posted by n2mopac How many fast clock hours is that, Joe? If you're running a 6:1 they would have 240 scale hours, which does sound a little better. [:)] Ron
QUOTE: Originally posted by jrbernier Bob, The point is to REMOVE the waybill from the car card after the delivery is complete! The 'burned' waybills go back in my pile of future 'car orders'. I have about 6 days worth of car order/waybill's and they are kept by the Dispatcher/Car Distributor person. We pull a days worth every operation session and assign them to 'perspective empties' before an operating session starts. On an old club I belonged to, we pulled the waybill when the empty car arrived back in the yard. The waybills were put in a special pocket and folks immediately rebilled cars - And yes, that SOO Line flat car seemed to always be taking a load of lumber to the the Deer Creek lumber company! After about 6 months of this, we started pulling the waybills from 'empty' cars before the operation session began. Solved the problem. BTW, I use a 2 side waybill - A car order on one side, and a waybill on the other side to move the car from the shipper to the consignee. Jim Bernier
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