6: Columbia Pipe at Irvinville is jammed because a pre-
vious local crew set out cars but missed its pickup. The
company produces steel pipe and other products from
rolled and sheet steel. Steve Cook built the scene.
Columbia Cascade &Western -
have between five and 10 trains staged at any given time, run-
ning both directions. We designed and built this in such a way
that we could run in a circular pattern but it’s intended to be a
point to point railroad.”
MRH:
“Are the trains made up on the fly during the session?”
David:
“When we begin a session we will have three or four
trains ready to go. But we run a dispatcher here, so the dis-
patcher is in control of the railroad and how many trains are
coming out at any given time. In a full session there are
approximately 40 trains that will go out. We stage the first four
or five, but the rest of those are being made while we are actu-
ally operating.” (Some run-through trains are simply turned;
others, like log, chip, and grain trains, will shrink and expand.)
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MRH-Feb 2013
