06-10-2013, 05:31 AM
jwb Wrote:...The way I've approached the problem you're seeing -- what if I don't want to run the whole bleepin' routine, but want to have a few minutes' (or whatever) fun...
I was messing around with the idea of just running a short local for a session and came up with the Float Yard Turn. The Float Yard in West Milll is close to Empire Grain, GERN, and Sal's Salvage. I drew a new, simplified card, from each of these three industry decks. Other cards in each deck ask for different numbers and types of cars to be picked up or set out (ex: "No work today" or "set out one tank car of lubricating oil for the car shredder at Sal's", etc).
![[Image: 001_zpsf7591ff7.jpg]](http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa145/Ralph59/Car%20Float%20Job/001_zpsf7591ff7.jpg)
In this draw I have to pick up a gon of scrap metal from Sal's, a couple of loaded boxcars from GERN, and exchange a pair of covered hoppers at Empire Grain.
Staging for this scenario involves placing the two boxcars at GERN,
![[Image: 002_zps8d5709f0.jpg]](http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa145/Ralph59/Car%20Float%20Job/002_zps8d5709f0.jpg)
The loaded gon at Sal's,
![[Image: 003_zps4e2e1de9.jpg]](http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa145/Ralph59/Car%20Float%20Job/003_zps4e2e1de9.jpg)
...and the covered hoppers at Empire Grain,
![[Image: 004_zpsaf331aed.jpg]](http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa145/Ralph59/Car%20Float%20Job/004_zpsaf331aed.jpg)
..and the Float Yard (which I forgot to photograph in the yard as staged and ready).
