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How to Operate a Modern Era Switching Layout by Lance Mindheim Soft Cover
How to Operate a Modern Era Switching Layout by Lance Mindheim
Soft Cover
Copyright 2011
104 pages
Table of Contents
Introduction
I. The Players, Stage, and Props
1. The Human Element
2. Rolling Stock
3. Industries
4. The Environment
II. Rules and Procedures
5. Procedures - Safety and Operational
6. Grade Crossings
7. Modeling and Interacting with Locked Equipment
8. The Switching Layout Mindset
III. Strategy and Tactics: Moving Cars and Approaching the Job
9. Moving Cars
10. Overall Strategies For Approaching the Job
11. Blocking
IV. Time and Task
12. Time, Task, and Pauses in the Action
13. How To Drop A Car, A Time Study
14. Time and Task Table
V. Designing the show: Writing the Script and Setting the Stage
15. Operating Session Length
16. Staging the Layout
17. Staging the Incoming Train
18. The Script (Paperwork)
VI. The Gateway Industrial Park, A Working Example
VII. Improving the Experience
Reliability: Track, Engines, and Freight Cars
Car Storage
Uncoupling
Tweaking your DCC programming
Preparing For Guest Operators
Learn how to set up an operating session
Prototype rules and procedures
Car movement strategies
Job strategies
Handling paperwork
Everything you need to operate your layout
Bonus track plan with operations example
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