Chapter 100: The shop and no-engine tracks
Twenty yards of the shop and no-engine tracks
Cars carry cards: a bad-order car must stand on the RIP track, a load must cross the scale, a reefer must stop at the icing platform, before it counts at its destination.
A track behind a derail is closed to the locomotive. Cars can only be kicked or humped into it and never pulled back out, so each one has to arrive in order.
20 yards, pars from 4 to 12 moves. Beside its theme, chapter 100 draws on hidden waybills, the hump and kicks, with two breathers of plain sorting and extra cars. Difficulty runs as a sawtooth: runs of easy yards, a spike, a breather.
The yards
| # | Yard | Par | The job |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yard 100.1 | 7 | Albany on 1, Dover on 2, Concord on 3, Erie on 4. Watch for a hump yard, a track closed to the engine, cars that need the shop first. |
| 2 | Yard 100.2 | 7 | Erie on 1, Albany on 2, Concord on 3, Boston on 4. Watch for waybills unread until pulled. |
| 3 | Yard 100.3 | 12 | Erie on 1, Dover on 2, Boston on 3, Albany on 4. Watch for a hump yard, a track closed to the engine, cars that need the shop first. |
| 4 | Yard 100.4 | 6 | Dover on 1, Boston on 2, Albany on 3, Erie on 4. Watch for a hump yard. |
| 5 | Yard 100.5 | 6 | Boston on 1, Concord on 2, Albany on 3, Dover on 4. Watch for a hump yard, a track closed to the engine, cars that need the shop first. |
| 6 | Yard 100.6 | 7 | The outbound Erie, Dover, Erie, Dover on Track 1, Concord on 2, Albany on 3, Boston on 4. Watch for 2 kicks allowed. |
| 7 | Yard 100.7 | 9 | Erie on 1, Dover on 2, Albany on 3, Concord on 4. Watch for a hump yard, a track closed to the engine, cars that need the shop first. |
| 8 | Yard 100.8 | 5 | Dover on 1, Erie on 2, Albany on 3, Concord on 4. Watch for waybills unread until pulled. |
| 9 | Yard 100.9 | 9 | Erie on 1, Dover on 2, Albany on 3, Concord on 4. Watch for a hump yard, a track closed to the engine, cars that need the shop first. |
| 10 | Yard 100.10 | 8 | Boston on 1, Albany on 2, Concord on 3, Erie on 4. |
| 11 | Yard 100.11 | 5 | The outbound Dover, Dover, Dover, Dover, Erie on Track 1, Boston on 2, Concord on 3, Albany on 4. Watch for a hump yard, a track closed to the engine, cars that need the shop first. |
| 12 | Yard 100.12 | 5 | The outbound Boston, Dover, Dover, Boston, Dover on Track 1, Concord on 2, Albany on 3, Erie on 4. Watch for 1 kick allowed. |
| 13 | Yard 100.13 | 11 | Dover on 1, Boston on 2, Erie on 3, Concord on 4. Watch for a hump yard, a track closed to the engine, cars that need the shop first, waybills unread until pulled. |
| 14 | Yard 100.14 | 4 | Dover on 1, Concord on 2, Albany on 3, Erie on 4. |
| 15 | Yard 100.15 | 7 | The outbound Boston, Concord, Boston, Boston on Track 1, Erie on 2, Albany on 3, Dover on 4. Watch for a hump yard, a track closed to the engine, cars that need the shop first. |
| 16 | Yard 100.16 | 6 | The outbound Concord, Concord, Boston, Concord, Concord on Track 1, Dover on 2, Albany on 3, Erie on 4. Watch for a hump yard. |
| 17 | Yard 100.17 | 12 | Albany on 1, Erie on 2, Concord on 3, Boston on 4. Watch for a hump yard, 2 kicks allowed, a track closed to the engine, cars that need the shop first. |
| 18 | Yard 100.18 | 8 | The outbound Dover, Concord, Dover, Dover on Track 1, Boston on 2, Erie on 3, Albany on 4. Watch for 1 kick allowed. |
| 19 | Yard 100.19 | 9 | The outbound Concord, Dover, Dover on Track 1, Boston on 2, Albany on 3, Erie on 4. Watch for a hump yard, a track closed to the engine, cars that need the shop first. |
| 20 | Yard 100.20 | 11 | Concord on 1, Boston on 2, Dover on 3, Albany on 4. Watch for a hump yard, a track closed to the engine, cars that need the shop first, waybills unread until pulled. |
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