Chapter 131: No-engine tracks and cabooses
Twenty yards of no-engine tracks and cabooses
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.
A caboose rides at the rear of its train, which is the ladder end, so it must be the last car coupled on. It travels with the engine and never goes over the hump.
20 yards, pars from 3 to 14 moves. Beside its theme, chapter 131 draws on the running track, the wye and yard orders, 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 131.1 | 4 | The outbound Albany, Albany, Albany, Dover, Dover on Track 1, Concord on 2, Boston on 3, Erie on 4. Watch for a hump yard, a track closed to the engine. |
| 2 | Yard 131.2 | 3 | Albany on 1, Concord on 2, Boston on 3, Erie on 4. Watch for a running track to the far lead. |
| 3 | Yard 131.3 | 4 | The outbound Boston, Boston, Boston, Boston, Concord, Concord on Track 1, Albany on 2, Dover on 3. Watch for a hump yard, a track closed to the engine. |
| 4 | Yard 131.4 | 7 | Erie on 1, Albany on 2, Concord on 3, Dover on 4. Watch for a wye off the lead. |
| 5 | Yard 131.5 | 7 | The outbound Erie, Erie, Boston, Erie on Track 1, Albany on 2, Concord on 3, Dover on 4. Watch for a hump yard, a track closed to the engine. |
| 6 | Yard 131.6 | 11 | The outbound Dover, Concord, Concord, Concord on Track 1, Erie on 2, Boston on 3, Albany on 4. Watch for yard orders on the clock. |
| 7 | Yard 131.7 | 5 | The outbound Concord, Dover, Concord, Concord on Track 1, Albany on 2, Boston on 3, Erie on 4. Watch for a hump yard, a track closed to the engine. |
| 8 | Yard 131.8 | 6 | Dover on 1, Concord on 2, Boston on 3, Albany on 4. Watch for a running track to the far lead. |
| 9 | Yard 131.9 | 10 | The outbound Erie, Albany, Erie, Erie, Albany on Track 1, Concord on 2, Dover on 3, Boston on 4. Watch for a hump yard, a track closed to the engine. |
| 10 | Yard 131.10 | 8 | Concord on 1, Boston on 2, Dover on 3, Erie on 4. |
| 11 | Yard 131.11 | 6 | The outbound Concord, Erie, Concord, Erie, Erie, Concord on Track 1, Albany on 2, Dover on 3, Boston on 4. Watch for a hump yard, a track closed to the engine. |
| 12 | Yard 131.12 | 10 | The outbound Erie, Concord, Erie on Track 1, Albany on 2, Boston on 3, Dover on 4. Watch for yard orders on the clock. |
| 13 | Yard 131.13 | 10 | The outbound Albany, Albany, Albany, Dover on Track 1, Erie on 2, Boston on 3, Concord on 4. Watch for a hump yard, a running track to the far lead, a track closed to the engine. |
| 14 | Yard 131.14 | 5 | Dover on 1, Albany on 2, Erie on 3, Boston on 4. |
| 15 | Yard 131.15 | 8 | The outbound Concord, Concord, Albany, Concord, Albany, Albany on Track 1, Boston on 2, Dover on 3, Erie on 4. Watch for a hump yard, a track closed to the engine. |
| 16 | Yard 131.16 | 4 | The outbound Concord, Erie, Erie on Track 1, Boston on 2, Albany on 3, Dover on 4. Watch for a wye off the lead. |
| 17 | Yard 131.17 | 8 | The outbound Albany, Boston, Albany, Boston, Albany, Albany on Track 1, Dover on 2, Concord on 3, Erie on 4. Watch for a hump yard, a track closed to the engine, yard orders on the clock. |
| 18 | Yard 131.18 | 8 | The outbound Concord, Boston, Boston, Concord on Track 1, Dover on 2, Erie on 3, Albany on 4. Watch for yard orders on the clock. |
| 19 | Yard 131.19 | 6 | The outbound Boston, Boston, Boston, Boston, Erie, Erie on Track 1, Albany on 2, Concord on 3, Dover on 4. Watch for a hump yard, a track closed to the engine. |
| 20 | Yard 131.20 | 14* | The outbound Erie, Dover, Erie, Dover on Track 1, Boston on 2, Albany on 3, Concord on 4. Watch for a hump yard, a running track to the far lead, a track closed to the engine. |
* A par marked with a star is the best known line for a yard too large to solve outright.
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