Interchange

[Gary S]

There are several ways to do it, but here is how I plan to do it on my railroad once it gets to an operational state. This is meant to mimic the LAJ, Empire and Modesto, or other similar shortlines. My layout is a point-to-point with interchange from Class 1 railroads on each end. The actual "interchange" of cars will come between operating sessions. By hand, I will remove the outgoing cars from the interchange, and will place incoming cars on the tracks. During the operating session, the incoming cars will be hauled around to whatever industries they go to, and cars picked up from the industries will be taken to the interchanges. Then, after the session, repeat - remove outgoing cars and place new cars for the next session.