4: BC&SJ Timeline.
Local trainsmove cars
betweenyards and in-
dustries
Yardsmovecarsbe
tweentrainstosend
themwherethey’regoing
Through trains transfer
freight betweenyards
Real railroadsdon’t run
trains around in circles
ormove cars randomly.
Theyonlymakemoney
when theymovea
loaded car to the loca-
tionwhere it isneeded.
TheBear Creek follows
thisprinciple, too.
FromTWC to
TT&TO
After several yearsof oper-
atingwith trackwarrants,
a temporal anomaly for a
1952 railroad, theBC&SJ
recently startedusing
TimeTableandTrainOrder
authority. Under TT&TO,
train crews read the
EmployeeTimeTableand
check their trainorders to
determinewhenandwhere
theymust clear themain
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