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What would be the easiest way to change the type of car delivered to a location without using the schedule feature. Possible need would be delivery of equipment.that may occur once or twice a year.?

Jerry Hampton
 

I don't see a way to do this without a schedule. Schedules are not that complicated. In the random section select 1(%). That should give you about three deliveries a year :-)
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Stefan Bartelski

Home layout: The Blue Ridge Line, an HO representation of the L&N Etowah Old Line from Etowah to Elizabeth and the Marble Hill branch (Georgia Marble Railroad), set in 1986 (under construction)?
Modular Layout: Shoofly module of the Country RRoads Modular group

 

Would setting the car(s) to be delivered three times a year to 'Out of Service' do it??? Then when you do want it to be active, you? can put it back in service.? The Location for the car will stay in the system (or can be manually edited.)

Chris Mawdsley
 

My thanks for your suggestions. My concern with schedules is the repetitive nature unless the schedule is canceled.

Jerry Hampton
 

My current thinking is to create two of the same location. Each with a different car, Put both locations in the build but only activate the one I want to use for the build. I have not tried this so I cannot say it works

Jerry Hampton
 

One thing, as a newbie, I'm learning, is that when learning JMRI, I run multiple sessions?over and over in minutes to see how actions work, what goes where, how cars flow etc. But in practice, if you operate the physical layout, once a month, and a car is called once every 6th time or even 12th time for an industry, that's only once or twice a calendar year. Which I think is the end goal at some level to see something only show up rarely.?

And, if you have say 4 schedules for an industry, with percentages, you'll see the lower ones used less often, which is the goal, but eventually, it does get called.?

Just tons of options. Curious which option works?best for you.?

Mike O'Neill
Parker, CO

On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 9:41 AM <gerardh1031@...> wrote:
My current thinking is to create two of the same location. Each with a different car, Put both locations in the build but only activate the one I want to use for the build. I have not tried this so I cannot say it works

Jerry Hampton

 

I believe you are missing my point. I am running a small terminal layout and as such will from time to time receive a specialty load for a specific industry..I am not interested in establishing a schedule. I was looking for a tool that would help make it easier to accomplish this action. I will keep searching the program
Jerry
 

Hi Jerry,

You might look into creating two spur types for the same track.? You can then set one spur to accept the regular loads and the other for the specialty load.? Use track pooling to make sure the program doesn't try and force two cars into the spur at the same time.? Here's the link for track pools:


Hope this helps.

Cheers, Dennis Drury
Dayton, NV

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On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 9:13 AM <gerardh1031@...> wrote:
I believe you are missing my point. I am running a small terminal layout and as such will from time to time receive a specialty load for a specific industry..I am not interested in establishing a schedule. I was looking for a tool that would help make it easier to accomplish this action. I will keep searching the program
Jerry
 

Dennis

That sounds like it might just work. Will look into it this weekend

Jerry
 

Gentlemen

I am going to go ahead and set up a schedule.I still do not fully understand the Random Feature I want to schedule the one car every 3 months. I therefore set Random at 5 does this sound plausible.

Jerry

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