Mark:
A minimum of 11 to fill all the positions and the pool. At this session we had 17 for the Thursday and 18 for the Saturday session. Because of that, we double up on the pool crews, one is the engineer, the other is the conductor who writes out the track warrants, that way nearly everyone gets involved with the session.
And it's less intimidating for a newcomer who doesn't know the layout or the operating scheme. He can be the engineer and can be teamed up with someone who know's the layout and know's how to fill out and read back track warrants. The newbe can listen in on the radio, learn the lingo and usually after a couple of pool trains they are ready to try their hand at conductor.
Rick
A minimum of 11 to fill all the positions and the pool. At this session we had 17 for the Thursday and 18 for the Saturday session. Because of that, we double up on the pool crews, one is the engineer, the other is the conductor who writes out the track warrants, that way nearly everyone gets involved with the session.
And it's less intimidating for a newcomer who doesn't know the layout or the operating scheme. He can be the engineer and can be teamed up with someone who know's the layout and know's how to fill out and read back track warrants. The newbe can listen in on the radio, learn the lingo and usually after a couple of pool trains they are ready to try their hand at conductor.
Rick
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