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An entirely good question To which I don't have an answer. I hired on the railway in 1988, worked in several stations that did not have LCL service. By that time agents had been removed from the stations and most business was handled by the mobile agent, or CSC, the customer service center...

How about Power distribution? Does someone go down the track and count the cars to pick up in advance or does the train go out with excess power or insufficient power? I find it fun to operate on layouts that are always "power short" It sets up quite a dynamic session when you've got to...

I guess that depends a bit on what the story of your shortline. Was it a class 1 spinoff? Likely the class 1 that it was bought from will supply etys. Has it been around 100 years? Perhaps then you'll have a home road pool for historical traffic and balanced car supply from your major...

Loren: I was surprised to learn that my railroad, which is a true transcontinal, only had about 12 Icing stations cross country. In all likelyhood your cars would have been pre-iced before arriving at your slaughterhouse, probably at the location where the cars were 'cleaned out' at a major...

Operation by Switchlist I might add that step 1 of this process might be to put your railroad on the map. This mental exercise might help determine how cars are handled on your layout. For example...

LCL or Partial Loads? I believe you've already received an answer as to what LCL is and how it's handled. Incidentally it is possible to have two loads in one boxcar going to two seperate shippers sidings. This is not LCL. I can't recall what it's called, but there is a guy called Jim...

Actually I've known of many instances where yard limits exist in harmony with a signal system. One company's Yard limit rules indicated that 3rd, 4th class and extra trains may use the main track in yard limits without train order authority providing they clear the time of first and second class...

Canadian Rail In the 60s and 70s "Canadian Rail" a publication of a Canadian Railway Historical assoc had fabulous information and photos of leased equipment. Notes credited to a "B Chapman" are highly reliable.

While this is undoubtly true, it hasn't happened on through trains for a least 2 decades as cabooses or vans were pooled in Canada as in the states. On the earlier postings regarding foreign pool cabooses, I've photos of Santa Fe pool cabooses operating on through pig trains at Frontier yd...

Employee timetables The best place to find information on train speeds is employee timetables. Permanent speeds and speed restrictions are placed there. Temporary speed restrictions are issed by general bulletin orders.(GBO) Canadian Pacific Historical assoc. has a website which has access...

CPR in the Diesel age CPR seemed to lease units every winter, as they were perennially power short. (I think it was a corporate strategy). Old copies of Canadian Rail bear testement to the hoards of units. Off hand I can recall B&M RS-2s, F-units, B&LE F-units, LS&I alcos, IC C-630s, various...

I've noticed that too. Of course there are exceptions , but how often do you see CN grain cars CNWX on CPR, rarely. Autoracks and other "pooled" equipment are the notible exceptions. CN and CP have always been fierce competitors servicing often the same locales until massive abandonments started...

I guess it all depends on what kind of space he had to work with. It's very prototypical for a train to double or even triple out of a yard. The loop tracks behind the roundhouse seem to serve multi purposes One could spin a passenger train, or long locomotive, while using the outer loop as a...

Well in a way everybody is right. My experience is tracks are usually numbered from the main track. For example North 1, North 2, North 3, etc would be immediately adjacent to the main track on a east/west railroad. South 1, etc would start on the south side. Currently most yards have letter...