Getting Real Column - 11
I should mention that although there are four first-class and four
second-class trains shown in this timetable, these operate around
the clock. For daylight hours of operation, which is my practice on
the layout, those scheduled freights that operated in late night or
very early morning hours would not be seen, leaving me with at
most two scheduled freights and two scheduled passenger trains
during daytime.
The timetable for freight trains only shows the scheduled ones,
which as I mentioned were through trains. All other freight opera-
tions, such as locals, turns, or haulers, were operated as extras
and thus do not appear in the timetable. Any lineup would have to
include those too.
Why did I recommend a timetable even if you want to operate
informally, with a lineup, or without clock pressure, or, as in my
case, without adjoining mainline stations? The prototype employee
timetable usually contained a lot of additional information, and this
can be helpful to your operators, as I mentioned above. Now I will
show some examples of that information.
16. SP SPINS map for Oceano, California in 1972,
Zone 04, Part 2. It looks hand-drawn.
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17. The Oceano SPINS
map in [16] was accom-
panied by these descrip-
tions of the industries on
each track, and the spots
at each, or the “Code”
for a location without
an exact spot, such as a
team track.
MRH-Oct 2014
