Gary Pfeil
Active Member
This post relates to one I have in general talk "soliciting suggestions" Some of those questions can be answered according to what I find out here.
In the case of a steam era class1 railroad, if a city had a large volume of industrial switching and an active interchange, and was located about 50 miles fro the nearest yard, and most if not all of the work could be done between 6am and 6 pm, is it more likely that a switcher would be dispatched from that distant yard daily or would they leave a loco there, having it just return for routine maintenance on some set schedule?
Thanks for any input, Gary
In the case of a steam era class1 railroad, if a city had a large volume of industrial switching and an active interchange, and was located about 50 miles fro the nearest yard, and most if not all of the work could be done between 6am and 6 pm, is it more likely that a switcher would be dispatched from that distant yard daily or would they leave a loco there, having it just return for routine maintenance on some set schedule?
Thanks for any input, Gary