I have what I consider a medium-sized, primarily switching focused layout (about 14'x15' plus 2 6-track staging yards in another room) with about 10 trains on the schedule. In my case, as a lone wolf, I run a complete train before running the next one so I do not have meets or multiple trains in service at the same time.?I have tried a few different methods of building them in JMRI Ops. I have tried building a single one and running it then building the next and so on. I have also tried building them all, then running them in order, then repeating that process. Lately, I have wondered if I should build a train immediately upon completion before running the next one.??
What makes me wonder what actually is best os that as JMRI only creates loads and destinations when the train is built, therefore a lot of cars at any given time do not yet have anywhere they are destined for. I have a few yard tracks with no restrictions and several yard tracks set to specific routes for pickups so when a train comes into the yard JMRI will assign cars to specific tracks for easier sorting. The issue is that since many cars have no destination until the train is built, some of the cars that come in end up in the general tracks and then need to get moved to the assigned tracks after a train is built.?
