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I use 4 Cycle Car Cards & Waybills to operate my N Scale Ashley Drew & Northern. I downloaded Dave Husman's Car Card Generator Version 3.43 Access Database from the Yahoo Car Cards Operations Group. It's a nice program and it is free. :cool: You can set up your cards, industries...

You can find Carcards & Waybills that you can print yourself here: http://www.nmra.org.au/pages/waybills.html The Operations SIG Operations PRIMER (FAQ) is here: http://www.opsig.org/primer/ An article on how to get started with CC&WB is here: http://www.opsig.org/primer/guide/

There are some excellent ideas here: http://www.wymann.info/ShuntingPuzzles/

It's also the project layout in this book: N Scale Model Railroading: Getting Started in the Hobby By Marty McGuirk http://store.yahoo.net/kalmbachcatalog/12205.html It was originally found in the Dec 1996 and Jan 1997 issues of MR. You can probably get them here...

Right here: http://atlasrr.com/Code80/pages/11017.htm

There are actually 2 wyes. There is the Shop Wye and the wye that leads to the throat of the staginig yard. That one allows trains to enter and exit the layout in both directions. The wyes are very handy.

Thanks, everyone.

Current state of the Ashley, Drew & Northern: Mill Loops Shop Wye Pond Yard Staging Yard

Good job with the visual, Ralph. It's cool to see that you figured this out, I remember you discussing it earlier. Another twist that could be added is to leave the cars unblocked in staging. I could see it happening as a result of the crew back up the line running out of time and just...

These are links to a series of articles that you may find helpful. They were written by Tony Koester . Enhanced car forwarding on the Midland Road http://www.trains.com/Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/002/413wqfou.asp Part one: Car cards and waybills...

What I want to avoid is gridlock from simply having too many cars on the layout. I want interesting and challenging operations on my layout, but I realize that at my current level of skill it will not take a lot to challenge me. I figure that I will build up a step at a time and learn as I go...

The staging yard is completed and wired. I cleared all cars off of the layout and staged 4 trains with cars. I am going to cycle the trains onto the layout and switch the cars in and out of the mills as a way of "seeding" the layout. I plan on working through a couple of sessions with things...

I assume that the black is the mainline. I think that the side that is the right in one picture and the top in the other, the one with the diamond is no problem to work. The other ide is a little confusing to me, but that may be because I do not understand your intent. What is the...

Ralph, By working the interchange, I meant that the trains will pick up and drop of cars at the Crossett interchange and Front Yard only. An AD&N switcher will pick up cars bound for the mills from the interchange and probably take them to the yard for classification. The other three roads...

This is how the staging yard will be attached to the current layout. The bench work is built and I will be laying the track tomorrow.

Starting operations on Phase I of my layout has pointed out to me the importance of having somewhere for trains to come from and go to. I have been trying to figure out how traffic would flow in and out of my mills. I'm working on setting up my car cards & waybills so that they work in a logical...

A nice HO mill. These same Walthers kits are available in N. http://www.nvrra.org/nvrra/steel_mill.html Pretty neat: http://www.prairie-works.com/hotmetal.html#rr http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/steel/ Poke around in here...

Nice work!

Posted with permission. These are a couple of posts made by Dennis Storzek on the Ops-Ind List concerning operation of a classification yard. >Quite the contrary..... you pull each track, looking for the cars on the >switch list (they are the cars that are supposed to be somewhere in the...

I had ordered this book, but had not received it when ppowell recommended it. The Rail Road What it is, what it does The Introduction to Railroading 4th Edition by John H. Armstrong Simmons-Boardman Books, Inc. ISBN: 0-911382-04-6 1. Railroad Technology 2. The Route System -...