BaltACD ittlered When I was working, I would get the young new guys to do rail road switching puzzles to see if they knew there stuff before I sent them out...Does anyone know if there is such a game online that I could kill some time with and challenge my brain? eg: A single line track out in the dessert, 100 car train westbound ,100 car east bound same track, come to a siding that only holds 50 cars and an engine, pass the 2 trains so they continue on their way... Any help would be great. Schedule the Investigation of the Dispatcher that lined up such a meet and hold him out of service pending the investigation.
ittlered When I was working, I would get the young new guys to do rail road switching puzzles to see if they knew there stuff before I sent them out...Does anyone know if there is such a game online that I could kill some time with and challenge my brain? eg: A single line track out in the dessert, 100 car train westbound ,100 car east bound same track, come to a siding that only holds 50 cars and an engine, pass the 2 trains so they continue on their way... Any help would be great.
When I was working, I would get the young new guys to do rail road switching puzzles to see if they knew there stuff before I sent them out...Does anyone know if there is such a game online that I could kill some time with and challenge my brain? eg: A single line track out in the dessert, 100 car train westbound ,100 car east bound same track, come to a siding that only holds 50 cars and an engine, pass the 2 trains so they continue on their way... Any help would be great.
Schedule the Investigation of the Dispatcher that lined up such a meet and hold him out of service pending the investigation.
LOL!! That's right.
I've never liked sitting around doing these puzzles. Real world experience beats a computer game any day. Give me a list and let me just have at it and I can wing it much better.
This type of exercise doesn't even have to be done online. Just hand someone a track list or industry switch list and let the fun begin. Hopefully the industry list will have respots. Main objective is to do the work in the least amount of moves in least amount of time
This is a site where you can play several switching puzzles.
http://dawson-station.blogspot.com/2010/05/shunting-puzzles-on-line.html
Personally, I need LOTS MORE instruction to play the game, but maybe you will fare better.
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Not an on-line game, but here's a site with switching (shunting) puzzle layout plans and procedures.
http://www.wymann.info/ShuntingPuzzles/
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