CMTM/Appendix B - Example of System in Use
Car Movement and Traffic Management System (CMTM)
Appendix B - Example of System in Use
Our map represents a sub-division of an imaginary railroad, consisting of an east west single track mainline with a portal at each end. Near the center of the sub-division is a branch line that goes south into a portal. These portals represent other divisions of the home road. The western most town is Austin and is where the sub-division yard is located. The map is called the Austin Sub-Division. The yard has six through sidings and a stub siding that is the Empty Car Storage track. Austin has four industries and a teamtrack. On the eastern edge of Austin is an interchange track with the CGW. The next town is Kelley where the main branches south through Maxwell and further south to the PortalSouth which represents the next division. Maxwell has three industries and five car spots. There is also a wye.
Back to the east west main at Kelley. Kelly has two passing sidings and two industries served by three spurs and four spots. Further east we find Huxley. There are six industries with seven sidings or spurs and eleven spots. There is a wye and east of town we cross over the CNW RR double track main where there is a facing point interchange track.
Portals and Empty Car Storage PortalWest PortalSouth PortalEast PortalCNW - Interchange Portal PortalCGW - Interchange Portal ECS AUS - Empty Car Storage Track in Austin Yard ECS HUX - Empty Car Storage Track in Huxley yard
Session Operations Your mission begins with retieving the cars from the CGW interchange and classify them along with other cars that may be in the yard when the session starts. The first train to arrive is #101 from the west. Pull all the cars from this train and store the engine on the engine track and the caboose on the caboose track. Then classify the cars from this train. The second train to arrive is #401 from the South. Pull from it the cars for local service and pull half of the westbound cars you may have from the yard, put them in this train and and send it on its way West.
Next to arrive is train #201 from the east. Pull from it any local cars, and add to it the remaining westbound cars and send it on it's way West. The last train to arrive in the first hour of operations is #301 from the west. Pull from it any local cars and add to it all the southbound cars from the yard and send it south. Then remake train #101 with all the eastbound cars from the yard and send it east.
Your first local train is the Huxley Turn to service the industries in Kelly and Huxley as well as the CNW Interchange in Huxley. Service only trailing point sidings at Kelly - which means some industries on the outbound rip and some on the inbound trip. At Huxley, deliver the livestock to the packing plant first, Then pull refers as needed from the storage track and deliver to the ice house. Then, pull the cars from the CNW interchange. Next work the industry tracks, including any cars from the CNW. then deliver your CNW cars to the interchange track, pull the livestock empties from the packing plant and make up your train for departure to Kelly and Austin. Your last move at Huxley is to transfer the refers from the ice house to the packing plant.
On your trip back to Austin, work the trailing point industries at Kelley.
Back in Austin, classify your train and then switch the Austin industries.
Your last run for the day is the Maxwell Turn which includes delivering the appropriate cars to the CGW Interchange.
Planning tasks for this route
Industries with their traffic requirements:
Austin (AUS)
O'Toole Headlight Mfg Co. (AUS01)
input - one boxcar every Monday from east portal takes 72 hrs to unload
input - one boxcar every Thursday from south portal takes 72 hrs to unload
output - one box car every Tuesday and Saturday to east portal take 8 hrs to load
output - one boxcar every Wednesday to west portal takes 8 hrs to load
output - one boxcar every Friday to south portal takes 8 hrs to load
output - one box car every Thursday to CNW takes 8 hrs to load
Austin Grocery Wholesale (AUS02A)
input - one boxcar every Mon, Wed & Fri from south portal takes 6 hrs to unload
input - one refer every Tuesday from west portal takes 22 hrs to unload
input - one refer every Thursday from CNW takes 20 hrs to unload
Custom Machine Works (Aus02B)
input - one boxcar every Friday from CGW takes 20 hrs to unload
output - one flatcar every Tuesday to east portal takes 48 hrs to load
Masterpiece Furniture Co. (AUUS03)
input -one boxcar every Monday from south portal takes 48 hrs to unload
output - one boxcar every Wednesday to CGW takes 10 hrs to load
output - one boxcar every Friday to CNW takes 10 hrs to load
Team Track (AUS04A)
input- one box car every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from west portal takes 12 hrs to load
input - one boxcar every Tuesday from CNW takes 20 hrs to unload
input - one Gon every Thursday from south portal takes 48 hrs to unload
Team Track overhead crane (AUS04B)
output - one boxcar every Saturday to HUX03B, takes 40 hrs to load
Kelley (KEL)
Frank's Valve Co. (KEL01A)
input - one boxcar every Monday from west portal takes 16 hrs to unload
input - one Gon every Tuesday and Thursday from east portal takes 8 hrs to unload
Frank's Valve Co. (KEL01B)
input - one coal hopper every Monday and Thursday from CNW takes 30 hrs to unload
Frank's Valve Co. (KEL02)
output - one boxcar every Monday and Thursday to west portal takes 6 hors to load
output - one boxcar every Tuesday and Wednesday to south portal takes 6 hrs to load
output - one flatcar every Friday to CNW takes 10 hrs to load
Midwest Paper Bag & Box Co. (KEL03)
input - one box car every Monday from eastportal takes 6 hrs to unload
input - one boxcar every Friday from south portal takes 8 hrs to unload
output - one box car every Monday to CNW takes 12 hrs to load
output - one box car every Wednesday & Thursday to west portal takes 12 hrs to load
Huxley (HUX)
HUX Steel Fabricator (HUX01)
input - one gon every Tuesday from south portal takes 8 hrs to unload
input - one flatcar every Friday from south portal takes 8 hrs to unload
output - one gon every Monday to east portal takes 8 hrs to load
output - one flatcar every Wednesday to south portal takes 8 hrs to load
output - one box car every Tuesday to west portal takes 8 hrs to load
Crawford Plumbing Supply (HUX02A)
input - one boxcar every Monday from south portal takes 12 hrs to unload
input - one boxcar every Thursday from CGW takes 12 hrs to unload
Huxley Ice Co.(HUX02B)
output - one refer every MTWTF, takes 1 hr to load then to HUX04 takes 6 hr to load, then to CNW
output - one refer every MTWTF, takes 1 hr to load then to HUX04 takes 6 hr to load, then to CGW
output - one refer every Tuesday & Thursday, takes 1 hr to load then to HUX04 takes 6 hr to load, then to south portal
output - one refer every Friday, takes 1 hr to load, then to HUX04 takes 6 hrs to load, then to AUS04 takes 8 hrs to unload then to EHUX
See-Thru Glass Warehouse (HUX03A)
input - one boxcar every Tuesday from south portal takes 12 hrs to unload
ABC Appliance Distributors (HUX03B)
input - one boxcar every Friday from CNW takes 8 hrs to unload
Iowa Beef Packing Plant (HUX04)
input - all cars from ice house HUX02B
Iowa Beef Packing Plant (HUX05)
output - one tank car every Wednesday to CGW takes 99 hrs to load
Iowa Beef Packing Plant (HUX06)
input - one livestock car every MTWTF from south portal takes 1 hr to unload
input - one livestock car every MTWTF from west portal takes 1 hr to unload
input - one livestock car every MTWTF from CGW takes 1 hr to unload
input - one livestock car every Mon, Thurs and Fri from CNW takes 1 hr to unload
input - one livestock car every Tue and Wed from east portal takes 1 hr to unload
Iowa Beef Packing Plant (HUX07A)
output - one boxcar every Tuesday to CGW takes 8 hrs to load
Iowa Beef Packing Plant (HUX07B)
output - one boxcar every Tuesday to south portal takes 36 hrs to load
Iowa Beef Packing Plant (HUX07C)
input - one coal hopper every Tue and Fri from south portal takes 48 hrs to unload
Maxwell (MAX)
Jones Gasoline & Oil distributors (MAX01)
input - one tankcar every Monday from east portal takes 8 hrs to unload
input - one tankcar every Thursday from south portal takes 8 hrs to unload
Maxwell Redi-mix Concrete (MAX02A)
input - one covered cement hopper every Wed from west portal takes 48 hrs to unload
Maxwell Redi-mix Concrete (MAX02B)
input - one hopper of sand every Monday and Thursday from CNW takes 6 hrs to unload
input - one hopper crushed rock every Tue and Fri from east portal takes 6 hrs to unload
Dr Pepper Bottling Works (MAX03A)
input - one boxcar every Tuesday and Friday from CNW takes 12 hrs to unload
input - one boxcar every Wednesday from west portal takes 6hrs to unload
output - one boxcar every Monday and Wednesday to east portal takes 4 hrs to load
output - one boxcar every Tuesday and Thursday to south portal takes 4 hrs to load
output - one boxcar every Friday to AUS02A takes 4 hrs to load
Dr Pepper Bottling Works (MAX03B)
input - one coal hopper every Thursday from CNW takes 72 hrs to unload
Thru-Traffic Flow Patterns
The thru-traffic flow patterns for this map have been arbitrarily set as follows:
Trains from the west - 70% to East Portal, 20% to the south, 5% to CGW and 5% to CNW. Trains from the east - 75% to West Portal, 5% to the south portal, 10% to CGW and 10% to CNW Trains from the south - 80% to west portal, 15% to CGW and 5% to CNW Trains from CGW - 40% to west portal, 30% to south portal, 20% to east portal and 10% to CNW Trains from CNW - 50% to south portal, 40% to west portal, 10% to CGW
These traffic pattern are created by making the appropriate number of records that reflect these ratios. To maintain these ratios for seven days of the week, create the following records with all days selected. For the west portal, make twenty records with the West portal as the beginning Location. Of these twenty records, make the Destination 1 field of 12 of these records the east portal, 4 to the south portal, one to the CGW and one to the CNW. As the game progresses, these records will be used again and again, maintaining the desired traffic ratios. Use this method for creating the records for the other portals. Daily patterns can be change by making more records specific to days you want to change.
The string-table CMTM database that was created from this planning is shown in Appendix A.
Train Schedule
Train# from Portal to portal time emitted Description size train 101 West East 7:00AM make set-outs and pick-ups at Austin Yard 20 - 25 cars inbound 401 south West 7:15AM make set-outs and pick-ups at Austin Yard 15 - 20 cars inbound 201 East West 7:30AM make set-outs and pick-ups at Austin Yard 20 - 25 cars inbound 301 West South 7:45Am make set-outs and pick-ups at Austin Yard 20 - 25 cars inbound 11 East West 9:00AM passenger train extra Austin Yd Switcher 6:45AM service thru trains with set-outs and pick-ups, classify cars, make-up local freights, service CGW interchange extra Huxley Turn Originate in Austin Yard, service KEL03 on outbound leg and KEL01&2 on return. extra Maxwell Turn Originate in Austin Yd, service all industries in Maxwell 3 - 5 cars outbound
12 West East 10:00AM passenger Train 402 South West 11:00AM make set-outs and pick-ups at Austin Yd Express no empties15 - 20 cars inbound 202 East West 11:15 Drop stock cars in Huxley, make set-outs and pick-ups in Austin 20 - 25 cars inbnd 302 West South 11:45 make set-outs and pick-ups at Austin Yard 20 - 25 cars inbound 102 West East 12 noon make set-outs and pick-ups at Austin Yard 20 - 25 cars inbound
Interchange Portal Schedule
CGW 6:30am 8 cars 12:15pm 6 cars CNW 7:20am 10 cars 1:20pm 8 cars
