Model Railway
a. Layout
b. Locomotives
c. Cars
d. Operating
e. Summaries
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Daley Train Log
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The goal will be to reduce some of the warning messages that appear in the Balancing Summary Report.
- Town Industry Report (1 warning)
- Queenston Cartage receives .16 loads of furniture per session
- I made the following changes to Ship It!:
- Queenston Cartage siding: increase siding car capacity from 6 to 8
- Shippers: Queenston Cartage - clothing: add through freight as secondary train type; change priority from 0 to 2.
- Shippers: Queenston Cartage - office equipment: add through freight as secondary train type.
- Shippers: Queenston Cartage - automobiles: add through freight as secondary train type.
- Consignees: Queenston Cartage - furniture: change priority from 0 to 2.
- I reran Ship It! and then reran Deluxe Balancer. No change to the Town Industry Report.
- Maybe I need to reduce the demand for some of the shipped products.
I then decided to make a copy of all my files and then try running the Deluxe Balancer. This appeared to work. It was the first time I actually ran this latter program where it would alter some of the values on my Ship It! database. This seemed to make a marked improvement on the overall quality of balance from 86 to 28. Ideally it should still be a value under 1.
But there are no errors, and only 4 warning messages so I am going to try running a new switching report and begin a cyle of operating runs.
I now have a Starting Car Report and a Switching List (16 pages!) for all of my Session 1 activities.
I continued to tweek some of the parameters and then rerun Deluxe Balancer. I now have a situation that is much better than before. My overall quality of balance is now 5.94, still not below zero, but much lower than 28.
I then started to run a new session, and received a new set of car starting locations. The cars have just been placed at the appropriate locations. I have printed out a complete switching list for Session 1 and am now set to begin an series of operational sessions.