10. A hand-drawn schematic map showing track iden-
tifications in a town. The L&C refers to a former layout
which had a freelanced Lompoc & Cuyama short line.`
oil facilities. So he asked Jerry about this, who replied (railroaders
can see this coming), “Oh, the oil stuff has been gone for years,
but that’s the name of the track.” Your operators need to know all
these names.
[10] is an example of a simple, hand-drawn schematic, from the
time when I planned to include Lompoc on my layout. The inter-
change was with the freelance short line, Lompoc & Cuyama. This
kind of schematic is quick to make and fully informative, though
maybe not as elegant as the rest of the timetable. I wanted to find
a better approach.
Constructing a timetable
My first issue was howmuch of a schedule to show. On my layout,
the junction of the main line and the branch, called Shumala, is
only a fewmiles south of Oceano, and accordingly is not a train-
order station. The depot therefore houses an agent but not an
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