What would you do? Options

[Frascati]

Hi

AG has a number of limitations. One is that it will sometimes tell you to pick up wagons but then not tell you what to do with them. On a straightforward pull from A to B that's simple... you end up with the string in tow, looking for a yard marshal to tell you where to put them... and he probably would... but luckily the activity ends before he has a chance.

But on a turn it's more problamatic... My situation is this. I'm in Klamath in the BN E Yard, about to set out on a turn to Crescent Lake (100 miles away) I have to pick up 3 empties in the yard with no destination set. So what should I do...

Do I drag them to Crescent Lake and back to Klamath (200 miles round trip) Or do I Assume I've just been asked to move them in the yard and shuffle them to the back of the cut they're in (having nowhere better to put them).

The above is a special case, but it highlights that in fact I could satisify ALL of the pickups en-route by simply picking them up and dropping them off somewhere nearby...

And on a turn, would I leave the outward pickups at Crescent Lake and the Inward at Klamath?

It's a bit much to expect AG to tell you this sort of stuff, and I guess I'm left to do whatever I want with them...

But a set of House rules would be good to keep me on the straight and narrow.

I propose the following... (The underlying pricipal is to minimise movement)

1) pickups at the beginning of a turn activity with no destination are assumed to be movements to the rear of the cut that they are currently in.

2) Outward pickups are left at a convenient track at the turn location for forwarding.

3) Inward pickups are brought home.

Nuff Said. Comments please...

[AT RR]

Steve,

I like the "Final Destination Track" idea.

Knowing I will "can" after the last pick up  I currently add all my pickups to the end of my train and will drop them at a long siding or yard near my last set out. By doing this I get the "Tonnage" and the switching dynamics of a long train.

Having to run around my local at the end and then haul the train back to the starting location "Final Destination Track" would be an added bang for the buck.  

Thanks

Peter