So for the longest time I have had this fictional railroad in my mind. The Fox Mountain Railroad to be precise.
And so the other day I set out to make my self just a little personal route to use CMTMS on and have a little fun with it. As the route quickly grew I had the idea to include interchange operations with another railroad. That's when the idea for the Little River Railroad came up. I shared this wip route with a few others and they liked it a lot. So I made some changes they requested, added a few new things here and there and continued to share it.
Then I got the idea that if I could get CMTMS working in MP I could release it there. Now at this point its not ready for MP. But I have officially released the early stages of the route. There's still a ton of work to be done, but I have a clever idea I want to work with. The idea is, as you guys and gals play the route in SP mode, and as we test out the CMTMS and other features of the route I can keep building it adding or making changes. This way we get a route that is tailored to what we want and like in an MP route.
So maybe an industry that you'd like to see. Or an idea for a switching area. Or a change to existing track work. Now not all ideas will be implemented, but any thing will of course be looked into.
Now for some of the operational details. The layout is two railroads, that dont run on the same track but do interchange with one another. They do have shared track in the FMR's yards titled FMR Durand. But its all ways a FMR crew that works the yard. LRR only comes in to drop off and pick up cars for their yard.
On the CMTM records, cars have routing information such as Home Depot_LR. The underscore and LR or FM indicates the railroad that handles the car. This mean's that if an FMR crew picks up a car that says Home Depot_LR, then that can needs to be taken to FMR's yard and put in train for an LR crew to pick up. And the same thing for an cars with FM.
Here is a map showing what tracks belong to which railroad:
This help show which tracks crew's are allowed to run on.
As for the session, there are a few rules to operating that I want to cover.
1. LRR and FMR trains stay on their own track. So a LRR locomotive will not ever run on FMR track unless in Durand yard picking up a transfer train. The wye track by LRR is not to be used by ether railroad. (Its the old interchange and is only used in rare cases.)
2. Only pick up cars from an industry that you have cars to drop off at. This means that if you dont have grain hoppers for Dillard Grain, do not pick up the cars that are there.
3. Do not send cars to an industry that it's cars are not ready for pickup. If Durand Grain still has 2 hours to go on its time, do no send a local to drop off more cars there.
4. Hammansport is its own railroad. FMR crews are only meant to deliver and pick up cars from the siding track's. The Hammansport Switcher works those industries. (Marked as HIR in your switch list.)
5. When switching, you may leave cars on the sidings or the main so long as they do not block the line for more the 15 minuets. Please try to keep a through track open at all times.
6. When working in or around the Durand area, please completely clear signals. If leaving the Durand yard or using the wye, this means pulling past the signal tower. Then if you dont get a green signal, move past the nearest orange rail joiners.
7. If the session is full, please PM me in game and I can see if there is an open slot. (Such as an AFK member) This also means if you join, and are gone for a long time you may be booted out to make room.
8. Any questions will be first met with a dumb look, but then answered.
Train Orders
Durand Yard Crew - Works the Durand yard and Durand Grain. Sorts cars into trains as well as runs cars to and from Hammansport
FMR Lewiston Local - Works all industries out of Durand yard to Lewiston. (Industries include: Dillard Grain, Mortimine MFG, Lewiston Mill) This train should NEVER go to Gern.
FMR Gern Local - This train works all industries in Gern. (Industries include: Gern Int, Gern Shipping, Henderson A and B, DOW Chem, Boweres Warehouse, J Simon Electrical, Gern Team Track
LRR/FMR Transfer(s) - These trains move between Durand and Little River yards transferring cars for each railroad as need be. These trains should never be less the 6 cars long.
Little River Yard Crew - Works the Littel River yard and sorts cars into trains.
LRR Local SB - This local heads south to work Little River MFG, and Meijer Dis.
LRR Local NB - THis local heads north to work all industries in Lewiston. (Industries include: Home Depot, Johnson Controls, Jets MFG) This train also takes cars to Exxon, but only drops them off at Exxon and picks up whats ready to head out. This train never works any of the industries at Exxon. Remember to have a spacer car between loaded tank cars and your locomotive(s).
Exxon Switcher - This crew works the Exxon refinery. They are provided a caboose to use as a spacer car between loaded tank cars and the locomotive. This locomotive and caboose should never leave Exxon trackage. (LRR locomotives are only permitted to drop off and pick up cars on a siding in Exxon.)
Hammansport Switcher - Works all industries in Hammansport. This crew should never leave Hammansport. (FMR locomotives are only permitted to drop off and pick up cars on a siding in Hammansport.)
Video showing a brief over view of things. (Now with better audio.)
I hope to keep this topic up to date as I continue to work on the route.
And so the other day I set out to make my self just a little personal route to use CMTMS on and have a little fun with it. As the route quickly grew I had the idea to include interchange operations with another railroad. That's when the idea for the Little River Railroad came up. I shared this wip route with a few others and they liked it a lot. So I made some changes they requested, added a few new things here and there and continued to share it.
Then I got the idea that if I could get CMTMS working in MP I could release it there. Now at this point its not ready for MP. But I have officially released the early stages of the route. There's still a ton of work to be done, but I have a clever idea I want to work with. The idea is, as you guys and gals play the route in SP mode, and as we test out the CMTMS and other features of the route I can keep building it adding or making changes. This way we get a route that is tailored to what we want and like in an MP route.
So maybe an industry that you'd like to see. Or an idea for a switching area. Or a change to existing track work. Now not all ideas will be implemented, but any thing will of course be looked into.
Now for some of the operational details. The layout is two railroads, that dont run on the same track but do interchange with one another. They do have shared track in the FMR's yards titled FMR Durand. But its all ways a FMR crew that works the yard. LRR only comes in to drop off and pick up cars for their yard.
On the CMTM records, cars have routing information such as Home Depot_LR. The underscore and LR or FM indicates the railroad that handles the car. This mean's that if an FMR crew picks up a car that says Home Depot_LR, then that can needs to be taken to FMR's yard and put in train for an LR crew to pick up. And the same thing for an cars with FM.
Here is a map showing what tracks belong to which railroad:
This help show which tracks crew's are allowed to run on.
As for the session, there are a few rules to operating that I want to cover.
1. LRR and FMR trains stay on their own track. So a LRR locomotive will not ever run on FMR track unless in Durand yard picking up a transfer train. The wye track by LRR is not to be used by ether railroad. (Its the old interchange and is only used in rare cases.)
2. Only pick up cars from an industry that you have cars to drop off at. This means that if you dont have grain hoppers for Dillard Grain, do not pick up the cars that are there.
3. Do not send cars to an industry that it's cars are not ready for pickup. If Durand Grain still has 2 hours to go on its time, do no send a local to drop off more cars there.
4. Hammansport is its own railroad. FMR crews are only meant to deliver and pick up cars from the siding track's. The Hammansport Switcher works those industries. (Marked as HIR in your switch list.)
5. When switching, you may leave cars on the sidings or the main so long as they do not block the line for more the 15 minuets. Please try to keep a through track open at all times.
6. When working in or around the Durand area, please completely clear signals. If leaving the Durand yard or using the wye, this means pulling past the signal tower. Then if you dont get a green signal, move past the nearest orange rail joiners.
7. If the session is full, please PM me in game and I can see if there is an open slot. (Such as an AFK member) This also means if you join, and are gone for a long time you may be booted out to make room.
8. Any questions will be first met with a dumb look, but then answered.
Train Orders
Durand Yard Crew - Works the Durand yard and Durand Grain. Sorts cars into trains as well as runs cars to and from Hammansport
FMR Lewiston Local - Works all industries out of Durand yard to Lewiston. (Industries include: Dillard Grain, Mortimine MFG, Lewiston Mill) This train should NEVER go to Gern.
FMR Gern Local - This train works all industries in Gern. (Industries include: Gern Int, Gern Shipping, Henderson A and B, DOW Chem, Boweres Warehouse, J Simon Electrical, Gern Team Track
LRR/FMR Transfer(s) - These trains move between Durand and Little River yards transferring cars for each railroad as need be. These trains should never be less the 6 cars long.
Little River Yard Crew - Works the Littel River yard and sorts cars into trains.
LRR Local SB - This local heads south to work Little River MFG, and Meijer Dis.
LRR Local NB - THis local heads north to work all industries in Lewiston. (Industries include: Home Depot, Johnson Controls, Jets MFG) This train also takes cars to Exxon, but only drops them off at Exxon and picks up whats ready to head out. This train never works any of the industries at Exxon. Remember to have a spacer car between loaded tank cars and your locomotive(s).
Exxon Switcher - This crew works the Exxon refinery. They are provided a caboose to use as a spacer car between loaded tank cars and the locomotive. This locomotive and caboose should never leave Exxon trackage. (LRR locomotives are only permitted to drop off and pick up cars on a siding in Exxon.)
Hammansport Switcher - Works all industries in Hammansport. This crew should never leave Hammansport. (FMR locomotives are only permitted to drop off and pick up cars on a siding in Hammansport.)
Video showing a brief over view of things. (Now with better audio.)
I hope to keep this topic up to date as I continue to work on the route.
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