Questions, Answers & Tips - 3
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“I thought this sounded familiar,” said UPWilly. “Here is the
same basic question posed in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Check
these out – they may have additional help.”
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Prototype movements
Q.
Is it prototypical to push seven to 10 cars from industry sid-
ings back to a yard, over about seven prototypical miles?
– Bob Y.
A.
Here’s the scenario: Three industries to switch, with one facing
turnout and two trailing turnouts. A siding and a runaround are
available. Time on the main line is limited. There are seven cars at
these industries that need to be picked up and seven cars arriving
to be spotted. The engine always seems to end up at the back of
the train. An option is to run the locos down the main about 1½
scale miles and switch back to the siding to get on the front.
There are three answers here, and all are valid.
a. Leave the locomotive at the tail end of the switched-out
train and push the cars back to the yard.
b. Run as far as you need to, get the power on
the front end, and pull the cars back to the yard.
c. Rearrange the train before it reaches the switching area, to
put the locomotive on the yard end, giving a shorter 1½ mile
shove to the industries.
Here’s what our commenters say:
“If there is a runaround track, they would rather run the loco
backwards and pull the cars.”
– Bremner
“I would run the 1½ miles to finish switching so that my loco-
motive would be on the front of the train on the return trip.
This would provide visibility for the return trip as you would
MRH-Aug 2014
