A Look At Slate Creek.

[Brakie]

Mostof the modern railroads I have managed/worked on have at least one or more run around tracks for reliable service. Making shoves all the time is a pain, consumes too much time and is more like a model railroad move than prototype modeling.

Barry
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Back in the day we would avoid run around moves due to the amount of time and work involved.The going thought of the day was "we coming' back this a' way and we'll switch it then.."

In fact there was three industrial branches in Columbus required a reverse move from Yard B to the industrial branch since there was no run around available.

Some times we would simply make a reverse move back to the yard from several industrial branch lines when there was light work.


I notice today's locals either have a engine on each end of the local or a caboose for making shoves.

So,making long reverse moves isn't exactly a model railroad thing since the prototype still makes 'em.

Of course a engine on each end of the local eliminates the need for a time consuming run around move or a long reverse move.