Some small sectional switching plans

[steinjr]

A little update on this project:

After doing several rounds of switching on my small switching layout, I decided to change the way the foreground industries connected to the main, to give me more temporary work space along the left side of the board while switching.

Old track schematic:


New track schematic:


New track plan:



Here is the switch list for the first planned operating session with the new track plan:


32nd Street Job, 17 September 1957
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Engine: SW7 #25

Inbound
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Gondola WP4401 - structural steel shapes - Barge terminal setout
Boxcar MSTL 53998 - MTY - spot Land O'Lakes, gate 3
Boxcar GN 19617 - MTY - spot holding track
Tank car DUPX 6046 - chlorine - spot Hawkins Chemicals
Tank car GATX 9876 - MTY - Barge terminal setout track

Holding track
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Boxcar MKT 90186 - machine parts - spot team track
Boxcar NP 40834 - packaging materials - spot Globe Mfg dock A

Barge Terminal Track
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Gondola RI 84214 - MTY - pull
Gondola GN 78665 - MTY - respot portral crane team track

Globe Union Mfg
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Boxcar GN 19038 - appliances - pull

Land O'Lakes
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Boxcar EL 88159 - no instructions
Reefer GN 3486 - butter - pull

Team Track
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Gondola PENN 357621 - MTY - pull
Boxcar MSTL 53217 - MTY - pull

Hawkins Checmicals
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Tank car GATX 30883 - no instructions
Tank car KPCX 508 - MTY - pull


Smile,
Stein