Track Plan and Line Diagram

This is the most recent track plan I have for the railroad. It is relatively current. I have been doing some research and have changed the industry names to more closely reflect actual industries that would have existed in the late 1960's in each of the modeled towns. I have not updated the track plan to include these changes.

My operating scheme is still in the developmental stages, but the basic idea is a Mendota local would run from the staging yard to Prophetstown, making several "loops" to give some running time and distance. The local would drop the cars at Prophetstown and then pick-up the outbound cars and return to Mendota. This would all happen prior to the P-Town local coming on duty.

Once the P-Town local was on duty, it would classify the cars then run down the line working all trailing point sidings. I am also thinking that several trips around the loop again to give some distance and run time. Once all the industries have been served the local would turn and head back to Prophetstown with cars in tow and all the facing point sidings that were passed on the trip out would be worked heading back to Prophetstown. This means that the crew will have to classify the cars before starting the return trip to assure that cars to be set-out are not buried too deep in the train.

This is a line diagram of the railroad. Again, slightly out of date because it is a work in progress!

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Scott Stephenson