Ill be putting up an OP-session today starting around noon eastern time (-5 GMT).
For this session we will run it like an real OP-Session, meaning there will be job assignments. The Jobs are:
Billings Yard Crew (Works Billings yard and the Auto Plant)
Billings Local Crew (Works both Billings Industrial areas)
Livingston Yard Crew (Makes up trains for Helena yard, Locals, and Billings Yard) (I'll be working Livingston)
Hellena Yard Crew (Makes up east bound trains and trains for the Greatfalls branch line)
Greatfalls branch line crew (Works Greatfalls)
Livingston Local Crew (Works all industries from Logan to Columbus)
Helena Local Crew (Works all industries from Helena to Logan)
Billings Local (Works all main line industries from Huntley to Columbus)
Manifest crew's (Run trains from main yard to main yard)
A note about Laurel Yard, its only a few miles form Billings but has no industries in it. Laurel will be used only if we get enough people to warrant it. If we have enough people Billings yard will become just and industrial yard, no main line trains will be made up from it or go to it. All trains leaving other yards for Billings will go to Laurel, where the Laurel crew make up transfer runs to and from Billings. I say this just to make things a bit more fun.
If you will be joining and want a specific job, ask here and now or else you may not get the one you want. Or else jobs will be assigned in the order I posted them, unless it is deemed necessary to assign some one to another job.
When you are assigned a job and have selected a locomotive you will be assigned a caboose. You will use the same locomotive and caboose thought out the session and will not be allowed to pick a new locomotive. The locomotive consist must also stay the same. So don't pick one consist then add other locomotives to it with out asking. You may how ever set out some of your locomotives in your consist if you want to. Once you do this how ever, they are free locomotives that Train master may assign to some one else.
There will be no Dispatcher tonight unless we can fill a crew slots and some one feels like dispatching. But there will be a Train master, me. My job will be to assign crews to jobs, keep track of whats going on and make sure jobs are getting done.
Team Speak is highly recomended, here is the sever address virtualtrainzrailroad.dyndns-server.com .