Each line represents an individual shipment of product to a con-
signee; in this case the Current column shows the next shipment
will be going to the Oregon Liquor Commission in Eugene. If you
look at Eugene in the Locations screen, you will see a siding serv-
ing the OLCC and it will have a Tequila Receiving schedule set up
to return the empty car to West Colton.
Once the empty car makes it back to the Sotol spur, it will be
loaded with tequila and sent off to Eugene. The program deter-
mines that the WCEUY services both locations, so off it will go
on that train. Once the car leaves the spur, the Current marker
will drop down to the next destination on the list.
16b
16a-16b: This is what the Trains window as well as
part of the Cars window looks like after I pushed the
Build button. I have sorted the cars and trains by time.
This way I can be assured that no cars need to leave
from a destination before they arrive.
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Here’s where it gets interesting. The BN has a customer in
Pasco who also needs a shipment of tequila, so the next rout-
ing sees the car taken off-layout from West Colton to Stockton.
There is an interchange track to move cars from the WCEUY to
BN train 170. The BN will haul the car from Stockton to Pasco
and deliver it to the Hill & Mundell Beverage Company. They
will unload the car and route it to Stockton for interchange to
the SP, to be returned to Sotol.
The third line of the schedule shows the car being sent to
Klamath Falls to be interchanged to the CO&W Alturas Turn.
That train will haul the car to Alturas where the Alturas
Switcher will spot it on the Modoc-Lassen Beverage Company
spur for unloading. When the car is released, the Alturas
Switcher will add the car to a block to be picked up by the
Alturas Turn for return to Klamath Falls. The EUWCY will
pick it up the next day for return to West Colton, where the
car will then be routed to Stockton to be forwarded to the
Northwest Beverage Company spur in Seattle. Then the pro-
cess will begin again.
Tying it all together
When I build the trains for an op session (16a-16b), I build
them all at once. That way, the program won’t deliver a car
to an interchange track at 11:52 and expect it to go out on a
train at 11:53. Going down the list of cars, the ACFX car will
leave West Colton on the WCEUY bound for the International
Paper Co. in Albany. There are two ATSF coal cars in Alturas
to be delivered by the Alturas Switcher to the LP Lumber Mill
coal spur. There are also two other ATSF coal cars depart-
ing Stockton on train 170 that are bound for the Eastern
Washington University power house.
MRH-Oct 2013
