Model Railway
a. Layout
b. Locomotives
c. Cars
d. Operating
e. Summaries
Photos
Daley Train Log
Page 108
From yesterday's log:
The Deluxe Balancer Manual suggests printing the "NS-NC screen setting report". I found this report in the folder "minor reports".
Chapter II of the manual says that there are 3 main reports to consider:
- Balancing Summary Report (in Primary folder)
- Product Overlap Report (in Minor Reports folder)
- Siding Length Report (in Minor Reports folder).
I have printed out all 3 reports. Now to sit back and see if I can make any sense of the information.
Chapter II of the Deluxe Balancer Manual describes these 3 reports. The Balancing Summary Report "alerts you to which Balancer reports contain error messages and warnings". Looking at this report I can see that there are a number of both warnings and problems listed. The manual indicates that one should eliminate these problems (i.e. open Ship It! and make changes, close Ship It!, open Deluxe Balancer and rerun initial setup. Repeat until problems are eliminated.).
The next step is to carefully look at the Product Overlap Report.
- Industries with overlapping consignees: none (good)
- Industries with overlapping shippers: none (good)
- Industries shipping products to themselves: passengers (I am not sure about this at the moment. This was a deliberate decision when I began putting the information into ShipIt! as I thought that the passenger train would always both drop off passengers and take on new passengers. I need to reread the ShipIt! Manual and see if there is a better way to describe this situation.).
- Repeated Products in the Product List: coal, No1 coal, grain, passengers. I'm not sure what to do about this at the moment. Perhaps I need to delete some records. Once again I will have a close look at the Ship It! Manual before proceeding.
- Repeated Industries in the Industry List: none (good)
Now to look at the Siding Length Report.
- There are a number of industries listed where the siding length capacity is larger than the "empties plus amounts" value. I need to modify some of the parameters in Ship It! so the capacity is either equal to or smaller than the total of empties plus amounts. This should be relatively easy.