Chapter 210: The shop and stub tracks
Twenty yards of the shop and stub 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.
Some tracks hang off another track instead of the ladder. The engine only reaches the back track while the front one is clear up to the switch, and the fouling point is marked.
20 yards, pars from 3 to 16 moves. Beside its theme, chapter 210 draws on cabooses, sealed blocks and repair time, 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 210.1 | 11 | Albany on 1, Concord on 2, Erie on 3, Boston on 4. Watch for a stub behind another track, cars that need the shop first. |
| 2 | Yard 210.2 | 7 | The outbound Concord, Concord, Boston, Concord on Track 1, Dover on 2, Erie on 3, Albany on 4. |
| 3 | Yard 210.3 | 10 | Albany on 1, Dover on 2, Erie on 3, Concord on 4. Watch for a stub behind another track, cars that need the shop first. |
| 4 | Yard 210.4 | 3 | Erie on 1, Boston on 2, Albany on 3, Dover on 4. |
| 5 | Yard 210.5 | 10 | Erie on 1, Concord on 2, Albany on 3, Dover on 4. Watch for a stub behind another track, cars that need the shop first. |
| 6 | Yard 210.6 | 11 | The outbound Concord, Concord, Albany, Albany on Track 1, Erie on 2, Boston on 3, Dover on 4. Watch for cars that need the shop first. |
| 7 | Yard 210.7 | 8 | Albany on 1, Dover on 2, Concord on 3, Erie on 4. Watch for a stub behind another track, cars that need the shop first. |
| 8 | Yard 210.8 | 5 | The outbound Albany, Albany, Boston, Albany, Albany on Track 1, Concord on 2, Erie on 3, Dover on 4. |
| 9 | Yard 210.9 | 10 | Albany on 1, Erie on 2, Boston on 3, Concord on 4. Watch for a stub behind another track, cars that need the shop first. |
| 10 | Yard 210.10 | 9 | Dover on 1, Concord on 2, Erie on 3, Albany on 4. |
| 11 | Yard 210.11 | 7 | The outbound Dover, Dover, Dover, Erie on Track 1, Boston on 2, Albany on 3, Concord on 4. Watch for a stub behind another track, cars that need the shop first. |
| 12 | Yard 210.12 | 7 | The outbound Albany, Albany, Boston, Boston on Track 1, Concord on 2, Dover on 3, Erie on 4. Watch for cars that need the shop first. |
| 13 | Yard 210.13 | 12 | The outbound Erie, Erie, Concord, Erie on Track 1, Boston on 2, Albany on 3, Dover on 4. Watch for a stub behind another track, cars that need the shop first. |
| 14 | Yard 210.14 | 8 | Albany on 1, Erie on 2, Concord on 3, Boston on 4. |
| 15 | Yard 210.15 | 16 | The outbound Albany, Albany, Albany, Albany, Dover on Track 1, Concord on 2, Erie on 3, Boston on 4. Watch for a stub behind another track, cars that need the shop first. |
| 16 | Yard 210.16 | 10 | The outbound Erie, Albany, Albany on Track 1, Boston on 2, Dover on 3, Concord on 4. |
| 17 | Yard 210.17 | 11 | Concord on 1, Albany on 2, Erie on 3, Boston on 4. Watch for a stub behind another track, cars that need the shop first. |
| 18 | Yard 210.18 | 14 | The outbound Erie, Concord, Concord, Erie, Concord on Track 1, Albany on 2, Dover on 3, Boston on 4. Watch for cars that need the shop first. |
| 19 | Yard 210.19 | 8 | The outbound Concord, Concord, Albany on Track 1, Erie on 2, Dover on 3, Boston on 4. Watch for a stub behind another track, cars that need the shop first. |
| 20 | Yard 210.20 | 16* | The outbound Albany, Albany, Albany, Dover on Track 1, Erie on 2, Boston on 3, Concord on 4. Watch for a stub behind another track, cars that need the shop first. |
* A par marked with a star is the best known line for a yard too large to solve outright.
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