My Take On Operations "Game"

[scubadude]

Russ, Gary - good stuff, thank you. I think I may already have your suggestions covered. The givens list I gave you all was an attempt to give you an idea of what the operations could possibly be. The index cards I have made read - "Deliver car _________ from Interchange to _______________" Another reads "Return car _________________ from ___________________ to Interchange" I need to amend (or add more ) to note whether cars are loaded or empty. On my layout, there will be no hidden staging, so the inbound/outbound cars to or from distant lands will be stored on the appropriate Interchange track in the yard. Does that make sense?

I like the idea of making moves with empty cars from industry to industry. Dummy me would be taking them back to the yard first for classification and then taking them back out. Duh!

Last night I was playing around with it, and I decided instead of just deciding to draw a "Problem" card, I would add several "wildcards" to the operations deck and if I draw a wildcard, then I draw a problem card from the problem deck. Kind of like landing on the Chance square on a Monopoly board. Puts a little more mystery to the whole process, during an operating session, maybe I encounter a problem, maybe I don't.

Thanks for your comment, I hope for more. I need suggestions for moves within the yard, maintenance facility and sidings and industries on the layout. As you can already see, I really am diving in black water with no light!