Next is staging KM-3 out of Kings Port for Mayfield.
Two tankers for the train leaving Kings Port...
...and two to pick up at KOSCO
Two empty hoppers for KM-3 to delver to Hedberg Aggregates...
....and two loaded hoppers to pick up there.
The remaining scenario card for KM-3 calls for four loaded boxcars to be picked up at GERN. I staged those at the industry but haven't taken a photo of them.
After that I need to stage the two car hopper run from Kings Port to Ulster Cement in Penvan. Once that's done I'll have set up all of the scenario cards and trains.
Since I tend to run the layout an hour here and an hour there, I can get as much of this work done (and run the regularly scheduled "through" trains) as I wish. It might take me a couple of days or more to finish all of the scenarios. My hope was that the effort to set this up would provide enough interesting operations to make it worthwhile...and then I'd draw again to set up a whole new set of scenarios.
Prior to running the trains I can create a switch list to carry around instead of the scenario cards. Since most of the trains are pretty short I think I'd only make one for KM-3 which I will illustrate in my next post.
I have to admit that I'm a little disappointed by the small size of some of the trains (i.e. a four car run from Mayfield and a two car run to Penvan.) I also wish there had been some car float operations but it wasn't in the draw. I'm thinking that this process may be a bit cumbersome for setting up
all layout operations at once and I'm considering the idea of using the scenario cards more like they were intended in Kelly's article. In other words I'd select cards for
one train at a time. Let me think about that.....