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Locked Re: JMRI operations How to set up for a complete session #operationspro

 

Bill,

Generate a timetable for the trains you run on your railroad.? When you generate your manifests do it in time table order - building and terminating trains in the order dictated by the timetable.? Leave plenty of time between trains that depend on previous trains to have delivered cars - slow or new operators can delay trains.? Simply BUILD,TERMINATE and PRINT in timetable order until you have processed all of the trains that will run in that session.? The paperwork will reflect all of the trains completing their respective routes more or less on time and as if previous trains have also finished on time thus releasing their cars at the appropriate locations.? The software assumes that all terminated trains ran correctly and all of their cars were picked up and spotted as directed.? If an operator made a mistake, it will not be reflected in the paperwork and you have to work around it - 0-5-0, air freight or just live with it and make corrections as necessary for the next session.? I tell my operators to do their best and annotate their switch lists with any discrepancies then I make correction between sessions

We did this for years on our previous railroad, generating a complete 24 hour, fast clock time session before any wheels turned.? On the new railroad, partly because of its larger size, we will not be able to complete a 24 hour fast clock day in a four hour operating session (6:1 clock) - A and B are now farther apart so it takes longer.? The clock ratio will be reduced to 5:1 or 4:1 resulting in 20 hour or 16 hour fast clock 4 hour real time sessions.? The process will be the same except we will just print either 20 or 16 hours of manifests instead of 24 hours.? Sessions will not always end? and start at midnight as before.? Each new session will start where the previous session left off.? In order to not get too confused and too far off schedule, we will pick some reasonable time and bring all trains on the railroad up to date at that time when a session ends - whatever time that is.? This synchronizing activity also gives us the opportunity to run a few trains between sessions!
Hope this helps,
Dave...
Castle Rock & Pacific
Franktown, CO
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