Operating Scheme on the NEB&W
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In this video, Allen Keller talks with Lee Rosenberg, a club member of the Rensselaer Model Railroad Society about operating schemes. The waybills and car cards tell the operators what the car is shipping, the kind of car they are using and where it is headed to and from. Previously, the club had to match them to specific cars. Now they look for a boxcar of a certain type as opposed to a specific car. Then they match the two together and it tells the operator where to send the car.
When setting up for an operating session, they use the Tibs Code, which they discovered from another club. The code tells the operator exactly where to lay out the cars on the layout according to the numbers. They used to match the waybills to the cars, but they found it was hard to keep track of. Now they attach the way bills to the nearest car that matches the car classification.
There is a sheet called Blocking Chart for freights that tells the operator which train they are operating and that train’s actions. Lee goes on to demonstrate examples of train information on the sheet. Looking on the layout, there is a waybill sitting on the tracks by one of the boxcars. Since the Tibs Code is New York Central and the example is an AB-12, an operator would know according to the blocking chart that they need to pick that train up and bring it along. For more on model layout operations, visit the Model Railroad Academy website.
How do you use the weigh bells and the car cards and do you use those kinds of things? Yes, the weigh bells and the car cards are works that when you go around, you have a car card that tells you what you are shipping, what kind of car you're using and where it's headed to and where it's headed from. Yeah. And then you match... We used to match them to specific cars all the time. Now we tend to look for a box car of a certain type as opposed to a specific car and then we match the two together and it tells you... It tells the operator where to take the car on his train. - Uh huh. For when setting up our operating sessions, we had set up using the tips code, for which we got from the Batavia club. Tips code tells you exactly where to lay out the cars, on the, according to the numbers. We use to actually match the waybill to the cars. However, we found it was really hard to keep track of so we now just use the waybills and attach it to the nearest car that matches the car classification, such as XM and which is boxcar. Coming along here. this tells you which train you are and what you do. If I wanted these frames, I would just go through and do nothing. However, since we're with AV12, we would come in and set out any of these cards we have and we pick up any of these cars. We work with these tips codes such as a New York Central Interchange. As we come in to South Hero, notice that there's a waybill sitting on the train, sitting on the tracks by one of the boxcars. Since the tips codes is New York Central and we're AV12, according to the blocking chart, we should pick this train up... Pick this car up and bring it along with us on our train.
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