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Up the Creek Column - 10
18: Paul (in the pop-up) and Theron (red shirt) are the
crew of the Oakhill Turn. Switching Oakhill is a bit chal-
lenging because there are leading and trailing point
spurs but no runaround track, only a wye.
The OHT arrives from the east (left) and needs to return
in that direction. A skilled crew will quickly switch the
Oakhill log loading, team track, and gravel quarry, but
an unskilled crew is likely to be anything but quick!
Check www.s145079212.onlinehome.us/rr/operations/
switching_oakhill/index.htm to learn how to switch
Oakhill like a pro.
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Today brings another challenge. Because a real dis-
patcher is absent and the Superintendent of Nearly
Everything was a bit busy and distracted, train BCHW
(behind the Black Widow F3 AB set) is in Oakhill on the
main. However the BCXE, the Bear Creek Express East,
has left Salem and is on the way to Oakhill arriving from
the right. Oakhill is the only place they can meet but
with the OHT in town space on the sidings is at a pre-
mium. Oops...
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