In all American yards, make sure there is at least one outhouse

[JonMyrlennBailey]

or portable toilet within 600 feet walking distance inside the yard limit signs. Try to have them placed on each side of a set of parallel yard tracks as much as possible and even between tracks if space permits. Yard workers may need to get to the john in a hurry and may have to climb between parked trains to do so. Make sure there are markers in between a set of tracks that point to the nearest toilet. If I were a yard worker and there were a line of rail cars on either side of me as I walked along the closely-spaced pair of tracks with no toilet between them, I couldn't see the toilet on the other side of the cars well.

This one thing I would consider as a railroad owner and operator. Toilets would always be strategically placed with markers placed in between close-set tracks indicating the nearest toilet within reasonably safe and close access for railroad employees on duty.

I would probably even have my "real world" yards designed with tracks spaced wide enough to have a line of toilets in a row with one toilet between each pair of tracks and toilets placed on the outermost tracks of the yard too. I am too lazy to redesign other peoples' yards (Mojave Sub in this case) to space all the tracks out farther apart to do this, however. I have these lines of toilets placed at 600 foot intervals throughout the yard.

In my Trainz yards where there are some tracks too close together to place a potty, so I have rows of manhole covers placed in between the tracks, in transverse linear fashion to indicate that there is a toilet on one side of the manhole cover, the other or both in a line perpendicular to the set of parallel yard tracks since parked rolling stock impairs visibility of the outside toilets.

I have chronic bowel issues and feel for employees to have easy access to mother nature's calling facilities. I think American railroad unions have strict standards in regard to the accessibility of toilet facilities.

Below is a screenshot of Mojave yard to show you what I am talking about. So when nature hollers at you out loud, follow the orange-brick manhole covers!

 

[simulatortrain]

This again?

Rather than walk, a lot of people would probably go between the cars, nobody can see anyway.

 

[pware]

Whats wrong with lifting one of the manhole covers?

 

[grazlash]

Not in real life..... That, son, is why you don't drink from the 20 litre water container in a loco cab!
cheers

 

[JonMyrlennBailey]

Here in America we are supposed to be civilized. I am trying to polish up the crude, gnarly image of railroading.
Trains in the minds of some are medieval death traps, rolling dungeons on steel wheels. Railroad men are something of
Atilla's Huns or Neanderthals.


I did not know what else to use to mark the intervals of toilet locations besides the manhole covers.

They lay rather flat and are rather small and don't look too out of place between the tracks.

I suppose a painted steel plate on the ground would work as well. Perhaps track
ties could be painted bright red or amber to mark outhouse locations. White lines painted on gravel
or ballast won't last long. Light posts or floodlight towers in the yard could also be outhouse locations.

These Trainz manhole covers are odd in that they are square and not round.

To me finding a john in a hurry when needed can be a life-or-death emergency.

 

[trainman7616]

Or or or. Just use the toilet in the cab.

Another redundent thread it seems.

 

[JonMyrlennBailey]

Not all railroad workers are inside a loco. The guy walking the yard tracks inspecting the loads might need to take a dump.

Switch engines don't even have a can on board. Again, we are talking about train yards. This is where all the heavy-duty busy bee stuff of rail transportation goes on. The train crews on the main line have a leisurely ride.

This is not redundant, but this thread is a real idea for placing Trainz content. Somebody authored the toilet content for a good reason.

 

[butler57]

What's with the all this crap(ers) stuff just another useless thread about outhouses in rows every xxx yards spoiling the scenery.

 

[davesnow]

Leave Jon alone. At least he ain't a "gimme pig" like so many here.

 

[JonMyrlennBailey]

Chances are in a real-world yard you'll find toilet facilities located somewhere if not everywhere. Talk about spoiling the scenery....without these facilities the ground would become awfully soiled and the yard would be smelly fast.

 

[cascaderailroad]

Don't drink so much, don't eat so much ... I never saw any restrooms aside from at the enginehouse, carshop building, dispatchers building, hump tower, and any other major RR building ... although I have animated and noise making outhouses all over my routes

in all the places I worked, they were so filthy, that I went without using the facilities for 7 years, and never pinched a loaf outside

 

[oknotsen]

in a real-world

... engines have toilets or similar facilities in the engines.

 

[JonMyrlennBailey]

So, where do railroad workers do their business if they are out in the yard on foot such as inspecting consists or doing yard repair work?

What is the longest distance any railroad employee, regardless of job title, on Southern Pacific RR could have been from the nearest enclosed toilet facility while on duty?

If I were to own and operate my own RR, no employee of mine would be ever more than a football field's length from the nearest working, clean serviceable enclosed privacy toilet while on his shift. All my employees would be treated with human dignity.

When I build my fantasy railroad Trainz routes, I keep in mind the safety and comfort of my imaginary work force. I would not want to operate a "butcher shop" but a respectable rail transportation business. I would have no appreciation for fingers' being lopped off at train couplers or yard bulls who beat hobos to death. Seeing graffiti sprayed on the sides of American freight trains nauseates me.

 

[cascaderailroad]

I never used to give it a second thought ... I'm so regular, like a racehorse, I go precisely at 7:00 AM everyday ... Problem is sometimes I don't get out of bed until 8