I have built a small switching layout closely following this plan: ? The only major difference is that I've put the Carfloat on the baseboard so cars cycle on and off in different sessions.? There is no off layout staging or rotating of cars.?
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Some spurs have limited car acceptance (the Del Monte Flats, the oil tanks), but most do not (including the interchange and Carfloat).
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I'm struggling to combine the following operating objectives in Operations Pro:
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1. Cars from the car float should all be set out to a spot, or placed in the three yard track below the run-around on the right side (essentially an offspot for every other spur)
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2. Cars from the interchange should be treated the same (set out or placed in the off-spot)
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3. I'm wanting each door in the DelMonte flat (top left of the layout) to be a unique location to cause some switching.? Each door is currently configured as a 2-boxcar long spur to allow a car to be routed to either track in front of each door (either directly next to the flat or on the parallel track).
4. The DelMonte doors do not ship to each other, but cars from there can go to any other spur.
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Here is what I have tried so far
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a.? If I build a train that uses a route with a single location with all of the spurs include, with 4-pass Aggressive Build enabled, JMRI does a good job of just shuffling everything around (the Local Switcher configuration from the instructions).?
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However the Del Monte Flat doors ship to one another, which is undesirable.??
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Is there a recommend way to prevent generating car movement between specific spurs??
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I have started looking at Schedules with a custom load for each door, but it seems like I would have to manually fill in the loads before the operating session (undesirable) or have dedicated cars and sequences for the individual doors which I'm worried would gum up the layout a little bit.? I'd prefer "any boxcar from any other spur, or a subset thereof, can be routed to a given Del Monte Door, but not between them"
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b. I experimented with making the Interchange track a JMRI "Staging" track which created a very nice switch list for the incoming train with matching drop offs and pickups, however then there was no local switching between the other spurs.? It seems from the instructions that it might be an either or situation (local switching vs set outs and pick ups).
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Am I missing something that would allow me to combine them?
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