2006-06 A Sequence Schedule
From Donboy
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All is green with the spring rains and some of the rooms in the remodel should be completed this month. It will be nice to get to the point where space in the house will be increasing because for months the space we have to live in has been decreasing as we move things out of the way of the remodeling. I have hopes that the tide will turn this month as some of the new rooms get completed and we can start moving into them.
Lacking time to build my layout I have a chance to reconsider my last idea of double tracking my mainline. I do have problems with my projected number of trains on a single track but a double track mainline is going to far in the other direction.
My layout design includes three towns (I will call them A, B, and C) plus a staging area after C. I was planning on putting my yard in town C but looking at traffic it seems to work better if I put my yard in town B. It happens that my benchwork is close to the same size for each town so it is easy to move them around.
In my renewed effort to match my track to traffic I went back to a September, 1996 MR and read the description on how John Armstrong setup a sequence schedule on the Canandaigua Southern. I made a spreadsheet to use for charting my trains through a session. Starting with my single track design it was very apparent that it would not handle the traffic with one passing siding in each town so I was right about that. After some experimentation I found that adding a short section of double track and more passing sidings I could make a sequence schedule work. A sequence schedule also addresses my other goals no fast clock, easy dispatching and the ability to run scheduled trains between operating sessions.
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