GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Bathroom is on your right just before the layout room.
2. Drinks are on your left just before the layout room.

LAYOUT ROOM INSTRUCTIONS

1. Please no food or drink in the layout room, including yardmasters and their assistants.
2. Please stay out of the layout room unless you have an assignment. The dispatcher will page you when your next assignment is ready.
3. Be mindful of the wires on your throttles, damage to the layout can result from errant wires.
4. There are many throttle holders around the layout, plug your throttle in and place it in the holder whenever possible. This saves battery life.
5. There are stools at every upper level town to assist in switching and operation of the turntables.
6. When in the train room, try to stay out of the area of White Hall as much as possible.

TRAIN OPERATING RULES

1. The signup sheet has the departure and arrival times for each train, do not sign up for a subsequent train until after the arrival time of your current train.
2. The train card (grey-freight, blue-passenger, yellow-EXTRA) has the instructions for the associated train. Pickup the train card for your train from the dispatcher and review it before departure. Return the train card to the dispatcher upon completion of the assignment.
3. Yellow engine cards give you the DCC address and roundhouse track assigned to the engine. The dispatcher will provide you with these cards. Return the engine card to the dispatcher after arrival at the White Hall roundhouse.
4. Roundhouse power switches should be left in the up position for empty tracks and down position for occupied tracks.
5. All engineers leaving White Hall should walk their train to ensure they have the proper cars and paper work.
6. Return all ground throws to their normal non-yellow position before leaving town.
7. Unless instructed to do so, do not throw any electrical switches or semaphores on the lower level, these are controlled by the operator.
8. Report any problems with engines, cars or track via BAD ORDER cards.
9. If any equipment does not work, try to get it to an out of the way location and leave it with a BAD ORDER card. Only pick up the equipment as a LAST resort. Try to do what a real railroad would do.
10. When working in Broadway, work from the east and west ends as much as possible to stay out of the way of the White Hall YM and assistant YM.
11. There are eight power districts so if you loose power it is probably you fault.

SIGNALING RULES

1. There are color signals and semaphores on the layout. The color signals (except for the RF&P diamond) indicate switch position only. The semaphores control access to the next block.
2. Stop at all RED semaphores and any green semaphores you did not see go green.
3. You must have a yellow signal and a green semaphore before you can proceed.
3. You must have a green signal to cross the RF&P diamond.
4. While waiting for clearance, DO NOT FOUL ANY SWITCHES OR PASS ANY RED SIGNALS.
6. If the east White Hall semaphore is red, stop and blow three longs to call attention to the YM. Then wait for a clear signal. DO NOT FOUL ANY SWITCHES WHILE WAITING FOR A CLEAR SEMAPHORE.
7. The blue signals at Hood indicate routing only and do not control train movement.