Further to the above.   See page 5-14 in the Basics Manual.   Or page 51 in the Recipe Book.

Cars are setoff/picked-up at a customer only if the customer is in the current reporting zone (the trackage between any two of a train's reporting points).   A staging track cannot be one of the reporting points.

A "switching zone" (as Doug calls it) can extend between any two stations on any subdivision .... provided each of the stations has a train reporting point for the service train.

Thus, in the example above, there is a switching zone between Quinte and Corbyville - but (if there is no reporting point at Canifton) there cannot be a switching zone beyond Corbyville.   And no cars will be picked up or setoff beyond Corbyville.

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The solution is straightforward - create a train reporting point at Canifton or just outside of staging if there are customers beyond Canifton.

OK?

                 Jim

Peter,

(Note 2 of 2.  Please see 1 above.)

>Canifton (a switching zone) then Corbyville a switching zone and a reporting point CBY-02y where the train turns by the engine running around the train.  The facing point switches in the Corbyville switching zone are then worked and the train moves to Canifton for the facing point switches there, then returns to Quinte which is a reporting point.
It seems to me that that should work and it has worked in the past. 

Using your data, which may be out-of-date, I think I see the issues.   Interconnected.   Some program, some data.   I will be posting an Update later today so please wait until that is posted.

1.  The data here is using "Work and train capacity at each yard" option.   Train 312/313 is set to have a maximum of 9 cars.  However the "work" option is set to a maximum train-length of 6 cars between each yard.   The maximum train length allowed will be 6 cars.

2.  The turning point for 312/313 is a "y" yard-track, set to "No blocking allowed".

3.  There are 23 cars assigned to the train, with 4 in-train and 2 pickups.  Which is correct. (The car pickup routines are working and assigning cars to the train.)  The other 17 cars are "extra" including all the pickups at CAN and at CBY (and later pickups at QTE Yd).  

The CAN and CBY pickups are "buried down" below the QTE (in the order that the cars were assigned to the train).  Normally, at a Yd yard, the train-blocking routines, would move those CAN/CBY cars "up" above the "QTE" and show them as pickups (not extras).  If the train was "long" enough.

4.  However the "y" setting of "no-blocking" is stopping the train-blocking routines from re-blocking the trains, which would move the CAN/CBY cars "up" to be pickups.

That make sense?

Also there is an interaction here with the customers being facing-point to be worked on the return leg, after turning.                          

And I can see why you have chosen "no blocking" at the turning point.

So what I have done is changed (in the program) how the blocking-routines handle a "y" track (with no-blocking), which is a turning point for a local service train.   The program now moves those CAN/CBY cars "up" to be pickups.  And the facing-point customers are worked.

But, in the data here, I also made the train "longer", by cars, feet and tons and made the "work" settings consistent with the train-length settings.

Again, without your data, none of these complicated interactions would be understood.   Thanks.

            Jim