Comments on: Switching Freight Cars https://blog.model-train-help.com/2012/08/switching-freight-cars.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=switching-freight-cars Model railroads and model trains Sat, 06 Apr 2013 23:41:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Simon (Conductor at NS) https://blog.model-train-help.com/2012/08/switching-freight-cars.html#comment-4061 Sat, 06 Apr 2013 23:41:12 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=2157#comment-4061 In reply to Melvin.

Freight trains do in fact have schedules. As the article states that’s the very basic concept of how it works. When have scheduled trains for local industries as well as through freight. All be it they don’t always run on time but we always make it in the end!

]]> By: Melvin https://blog.model-train-help.com/2012/08/switching-freight-cars.html#comment-1675 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:18:08 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=2157#comment-1675 Freight trains (US) don’t have siiepfcc schedules. Believe it or not, it is much simpler and more efficient to go trains this way. A train moving over several states or from one coast to another will pass through the territories (jurisdictions) of several Dispatchers. Dispatchers are centrally located and control all trains in their assigned territory. Their job is to go trains as quickly as possible through their area of control (even if many trainmen will disagree). The Dispatcher may have to direct an east bound train into a siding and stop here while one or two west bound trains pass, as just one model. Further expanding on that same model, the east bound train may have to stop at a siiepfcc city to set out a try out of rail cars and pick up another due in the east some place. Hard to predict how long this process will take. So trains don’t have schedules. Here are due dates and dead lines for much of the merchandise they carry, but when they might pass through a certain town can’t be predicted.

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