Meeting Night

During our meeting we talked about operations. The Donald started the discussion by mentioning how well having people running switchers in Lincoln, Heron's Landing, and Springbank worked. He also thought we should go back to having a person stationed at Wellington. It was also agreed that 2 man crews was a good idea. Glen talked about train length and how long trains gum up the railroad. Only taking 2 cards no matter how small a train might be, was thought to be a good place to start. The drawback to this is you would only switch 2 industries. We might consider lowering the quantities on the cards so you could take 3 or 4 cards to make up a train, but that would mean the longer sidings would always be mostly empty. A solution to that could be to have special heavy freights that haul cards of 4 or more, Trent would be happy, but that would mean sorting cards. The simple card system would become complicated.  I think if we have switchers at the towns with large industries, the 5 and 6 car cards can still be handled and that we could go up to 3 card trains. Trent asked about rolling stock quantities. Even though we could use more of some types of rolling stock, but we don't have the yard space. We could expand Wellington yard by removing Cullen Mills or reducing it's foot print and expanding the yard. We concluded with the finances, let's just say I got told, no more major projects this year!