On Sat, May 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM, Clarence Zink wrote:
If Train A (a cross country road freight) stops at Location 2 (an I/C yard) to set out cars needed for Train B (a local) at say, 09:30; but Train B is timed to stop at Location 2 to pick up the cars SO by Train A at say 10:45, before Train A terminates at 12:15, how does JMRI handle the cars transferred from A to B??
Clarence,
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If I may offer an idea with a variant of what Dan noted about the "Move" feature...
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I serve as traffic manager for a friend's railroad and we have a very busy yard that handles several trains that do "work" there. ?I have created virtual tracks for each of those trains' cuts of inbound cars. ?This allows the YM to decide when to actual classify the cars that have arrived, but keeps them in blocks within the yard. ?If the switcher is ready to classify the cars immediately (before the original train has finished its pickup work and "moves" on), a switcher "train" is built that is the only train allowed to pick up from the virtual track. ?I then print the switchlist for the switcher "train" and it goes to work knocking out the list. ?And now, a peek behind the curtain...
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If you add a second line to the route of train A in your scenario while at your Location 2, and have the train visit the location twice, you can make the inbound cars available to connect to other trains while train A is still in Location 2, making its pickups. ?So, train A at Location 2 has two lines in its route; on the first, it sets out, and on the second, it picks up. ?This way, train B can be "built" while train A is still either in location 2, or has left.
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I, too, also only terminate trains when the paperwork returns to my "office". ?And since I share the space with the Dispatcher, I can easily note that a given train has moved around the layout and "move" that train within JMRI. ?I believe Steve Davis' use of CATS is a great way to do something similar if you don't have the same arrangement that I have...
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Happy to help, hope it helps,
<Pete Johnson>
