09-02-2013, 10:49 AM
At the moment, what we want to do is resolve this in two ways. One is to pair participants alphabetically and then leave it up to Al and Bob (hypothetical examples only) to work out what they exchange, how, and why. If Al wants to send Bob a tank car but Bob doesn't have an industry, then Bob can propose a boxcar instead, and if that's OK with Al, they go ahead with it. Or Al says gee, Bob, all I have is tank cars, can't send you anything else, my layout is a model of the Standard Oil refinery, I just have a 44 ton that switches tank cars -- in that case, Bob might accept a tank car as overhead traffic. Or they might work out something entirely different.
The object we have in mind for now is to make fellowship primary. This would tend to exclude a clique that only exchanges cars among its own members, for instance -- there's plenty of that around, and I want to avoid it. So the alternative is to be less formal and more inclined to go for whatever works.
The object we have in mind for now is to make fellowship primary. This would tend to exclude a clique that only exchanges cars among its own members, for instance -- there's plenty of that around, and I want to avoid it. So the alternative is to be less formal and more inclined to go for whatever works.