Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Operating Session Feb 4

On February 4th the first operating session on the revised White River Southern was held. Below is the photo of the Mill Run preparing to depart the Yard for its first run to the new Mill Complex. WRS had to lease power from Conrail for this train due to its tonnage (15 cars).




David was the first person to switch the new Mill Complex. The Mill Job, will require the operater to move seventeen cars in the complex. The cars are delivered to the Mill Complex by the Mill Run.




Glen after making the first Mill Run, returned to Dogwood to switch the cars he delivered. Don was busy recordering the events for an upcoming video.




The Roseton Local has arrived at Roseton. The crews from the Roseton Local (Ross) and the Junction / Blue Ridge Switcher (Doug) are busy discussing how to break up the train, so both could start their jobs.





Ross busy switching Roseton / Whiskey Falls.



Doug is in Blue Ridge working on switching.



The session ending when the Junction / Blue Ridge Switcher crew ran out of hours.


The Bartown Switcher was not ran this session, since two of WRS Operators (Pierre and Bruce) were not able to attend. With the changes in the layout, more operators are required to operate the layout. (five verse six).


We will try this again in a few weeks.

later
Doug




4 comments:

Scott Jay said...

So what happens when a train does not get run during a session? Do you run it yourself between sessions or will it get tacked on to the next session?

You should try to build scenarios for various operator availability scenarios. Combining trains or jobs could get all the work done with a small crew in only slightly more time than a full crew.

Scott

Scott

Scott Jay said...

BTW - It looks like everyone was having fun!

Doug Whitman said...

Scott

If a train does not get run, at present it does not effect anything. The trains/cars do not interact with each other. So it will be done the next session.

I was going to run the Bartown Local after I did the Yard Work, but I had to help some of the other operators with the changes since they last operated.

I still have more work to do on the operations of the layout with the new arrangement.

Doug

Doug Whitman said...

Yes they had fun.