to [19]). The length of the track at the stock pen permits surplus
empty stock cars to be stored here, as was common on the SP in
the 1950s. Note that there are specific spots for the industries
on this map, particularly at the Phelan & Taylor Produce packing
house. For Caslon Printing, the inbound waybill would have to be
consulted to knowwhich cars go to which spot.
My other two maps are for the towns of Ballard and Santa Rosalia.
Neither one on the layout is complete at this point, so it is espe-
cially important to have the flexibility of digital maps for future
revisions of all kinds, especially industry names and locations. But
I should mention that even maps of towns (on the physical layout)
which are actually incomplete can still convey locations of indus-
tries in those towns, though they are not yet built.
Such switching destinations may show up in waybills used in oper-
ating the layout, and then the timetable map shows where these
are (or will be) located, even if both the town and the industry are
only represented (temporarily) by a storage track or tracks extend-
ing into the future town location.
My current Ballard map is shown in [21], and again, it is a slightly
different style than [19] and [20]. It is more complex in that a num-
ber of industries have multiple spots, but simpler in terms of track
arrangement and switching complexity. The local agent would indi-
cate which spot to use if one is not designated on the waybill, or
that information could come from the plant foreman.
Incidentally, the design of this trackage used a town from Terry
Walsh’s well-known layout, the West Agony & Inchoate, as a start-
ing point. A track plan for his town of West Agony was included
in an article in Model Railroader for July 1960, which was about a
switching puzzle set in this town.
As mentioned, the town maps I’ve shown are not regarded as fin-
ished, but remain works in progress. I am still not sure whether I
want to go more in the direction of [16] or [18] as SP prototypes for
the final versions. But as components of a digital timetable, these
can be gradually modified and improved as needed.
The same is true of the rest of the timetable material, though most
of it appears satisfactory to me at this point.
Putting it all together
With these sample track maps, along with the previously described
components, my layout timetable can now be assembled. To sum
up, the outside cover was shown as [13]; the first two pages inside,
pages 1 and 2, are [15]; the center-spread pages, pages 5 and 6,
are the schedule shown as [12]; and the back two pages, 9 and 10,
are the pages shown in [13]. The town maps are then included as
pages 3 and 4, for Shumala and East Shumala [22], and pages 7 and
8, for Ballard and Santa Rosalia. [22] contains the same maps as
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