Have a regularly scheduled freight or passenger train on your layout? Did you give it a name or maybe even follow your road's prototype practice for numbering trains? Do you send out a train to perform a job on a routine basis? Tell us about one of the trains you run on your layout to pick up or set out freight...or to help passengers get to their destinations.
I'll start with a small train on a short route...(see below)
"The Sawyer Job" on my layout serves the community of Sawyer where there is a sheet metal factory and the riverside Allied Bulk Commodaties Transfer that moves coal, sand and gravel from barge to rail. These industries are located on a switchback off the main. As it often turns out, both industries tend to need service at the same time (at least in my fictional world) so a small train is regularly assigned this purpose.
A train of three cars and a transfer caboose leaves the opposite side of the layout and arrives at Sawyer where it heads into the ABCT spur, pulls the filled hoppers out, sets them on the main, retakes the ABCT spur so it can back the three box cars onto the Sheet Metal spur, and then return to the main where it picks up the hoppers and returns (caboose first) to its origin point. This operation takes a good ten to fifteen minutes and is just one regularly scheduled trainson my layout to keep things interesting....
How about you?..
Ralph
I'll start with a small train on a short route...(see below)
"The Sawyer Job" on my layout serves the community of Sawyer where there is a sheet metal factory and the riverside Allied Bulk Commodaties Transfer that moves coal, sand and gravel from barge to rail. These industries are located on a switchback off the main. As it often turns out, both industries tend to need service at the same time (at least in my fictional world) so a small train is regularly assigned this purpose.
A train of three cars and a transfer caboose leaves the opposite side of the layout and arrives at Sawyer where it heads into the ABCT spur, pulls the filled hoppers out, sets them on the main, retakes the ABCT spur so it can back the three box cars onto the Sheet Metal spur, and then return to the main where it picks up the hoppers and returns (caboose first) to its origin point. This operation takes a good ten to fifteen minutes and is just one regularly scheduled trainson my layout to keep things interesting....
How about you?..
Ralph