Below is a depiction of the layout with some industries which can be shunted on local Pilot jobs. In real life, these pilots would leave from Tottenham Yard in Western Melbourne and shunt some of the industries. Tottenham Yard was huge and many trains would terminate and be made up there. It was only 1 station away from where I used to live in Sunshine, Victoria.
Anyway, last Sunday I was fully immersed and quite enjoyed executing the session outlined below.
The trains are obviously made up but it doesn't really deviate that much from what happened in real life, obviously all happened on a much larger scale.
Now before I start any scenery I need to make the decision - do I model the country or do I go for an industrial layout. Both have their positives and minuses.
Below is what I executed on Sunday which took about 2.5 to 3 hours to complete. I would like to get a couple of chaps over to execute the session to see what they think and get some feedback. Craig, Darren, Geoff, Anthony and Mark are good candidates!
Two, possibly three operators - each outlined with the colour code below (Pilot Working and Shunt could be combined)
Anyway, last Sunday I was fully immersed and quite enjoyed executing the session outlined below.
The trains are obviously made up but it doesn't really deviate that much from what happened in real life, obviously all happened on a much larger scale.
Now before I start any scenery I need to make the decision - do I model the country or do I go for an industrial layout. Both have their positives and minuses.
Below is what I executed on Sunday which took about 2.5 to 3 hours to complete. I would like to get a couple of chaps over to execute the session to see what they think and get some feedback. Craig, Darren, Geoff, Anthony and Mark are good candidates!
Two, possibly three operators - each outlined with the colour code below (Pilot Working and Shunt could be combined)
- Freighter arrives this morning - Road 3 (Longest Road)
- VLXs come off and go to Sadliers
- Whence Return - Road 4 or Road 5 holds train for Geelong, hence empty JXs from (1) come off to be placed for Geelong Loading
- From Road 4 or Road 5, shunt off ELX (later to be used for Arc Eng) and place in spare road - Geelong Goods departs
Grain or Jet - Ex staging, from Geelong with JXs in consist - arr. Road 4 - Loaded JXs to be shunted on evening freighter, other JX to be shunted to Boral with ELX as Pilot (step 7)
- Trip train to Boral and ARC Eng.
- Whence return Arrival from North - onto Road 2 - Any TWs to be off-loaded - split train keeping road 2 free.
- Arrival from South - onto Road 2- Any TWs to be off loaded - keep Road 2 free - utilise stub-ended sidings.
- Pilot to work Caltex with empties TWs from (8) and (9) - Need to take wagon to place in between Engine and Tank car- Bring back Sadliers and Loaded TWs
- Whence return, make up Northbound goods with TW/s in loading then departs
- Sadliers loading to be on Express Freighter then departs
- Other TWs to be loaded on Southbound Goods then departs
Depicts Main Line Run
Depicts Pilot Working
Depicts Shunting
The following shows the schematic of the layout.
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