Add Location as Yards and the Add Location window will be displayed.
A classification yard (US and Canada) or marshalling yard (UK and Canada)(including hump yards) is a railroad yard found at some freight stations, used to separate railroad cars on to one of several tracks. First the cars are taken to a track, sometimes called a lead or a drill. From there the cars are sent through a series of switches called a ladder onto the classification tracks. Larger yards tend to put the lead on an artificially built hill called a hump to use the force of gravity to propel the cars through the ladder.
Freight trains that consist of isolated cars must be made into trains and divided according to their destinations. Thus the cars must be shunted several times along their route in contrast to a unit train, which carries, for example, automobiles from the plant to a port or coal from a mine to the power plant. This shunting is done partly at the starting and final destinations and partly (for long-distance-hauling) in classification yards.
To add a location as a Yard: in the Add Location window, type the Name
of the Yard location, note most of the window is greyed out until the location is added. The location name must be unique; the program will not allow two locations with identical names. However, if you want more than one location to have the same name for your manifests and switch lists, add a hyphen and a number to the locations name. For example, "Boston-1" and "Boston-2" will print as "Boston". The program will remove the hyphen and number when printing manifests and switch lists.
Select Operations at this location Yards, then press the at the bottom of the window.
A yard will contain several tracks that must be defined.
This opens the Add Location window with all the options enabled.
You may select This location is serviced by trains traveling, select at least one or any number of the directions depending on access to your siding. We have selected South, since this is the North Yard. You can decide which train direction the location can service. For example, if only south bound trains can access the location select "South" and deselect the other directions
Next Select the rolling stock serviced by this location, You can control the rolling stock a location can service. Push to deselect all types, or to select all types, then select or deselect the rolling stock you wish the location to accept.
Since the Operations at this location is a Yards the is now enabled near the bottom of the window.
We also have the option to or
Press then the Add Yard Track window is displayed, so that you can detail the siding.
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In Name type the specific siding track to be serviced at this location. Length of the Yard track in scale feet. You may enter the measurement in actual inches as and the program will convert to the scale feet that you select during setup. Press the siding track is added and the greyed out features are activated. |
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You may Select the roads serviced by this track Accept all Default accepts rolling stock from any railroad. Accept only Allows you to list the railroads whose rolling stock you will accept. Exclude Accept all rolling stock except from those railroads that are excluded. We will use the default. If you want to edit the roads accepted go to Select road serviced Optional Schedule may be edited. You may enter a Comment for the track. You may now press to add to the location or press if you do not want to store the track. If you want to add another track to this siding location, then enter new data and Press to add the track. Close the window when done with this location. |
The Add Location window shows one Yard track at the North Yard.
Let's add some more tracks to the yard.
If you want to change information for any track entry, press and the Edit Siding Track window will open
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Note that it is identical to the Add Siding Track except for the title. Change any of the entries that you want to edit and then press the to save the changes. You may also from your data base. When done with editing close the window. |
The Locations window shows all the locations in your database.
You may Edit any one of them, which opens the Edit Location window, which is the same as the Add Location window except it contains the info for the location you are editing.
You may add as many locations and track as you need to complete the description of your layout.
