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Re: Santa Fe distribution pattern
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:16:54 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Good sleuthing!
I had to look that one up, Larry.
> I would say that taking batches of a few hundred and
> directing them one way, then the other, is a fair bit of jumbling. But not
> as much jumbling as putting all 10000 on a waxed floor and swirling them
> around before repacking, I guess. :-)
Yea, it's funny to try and imagine Brad and his small team doing that.
> I'm confused about the process though, sorting the boxes?? There presumably
> was a linear counter somewhere printing the tiles. Why not mix those tiles
> up before loading the cassettes. 10000 tiles would not be hard to jumble at
> all, it's a fairly small volume (I haven't carried out the calculation, but
> less than a 55 gallon drum worth??)
I suspect they preformed a small ballet with a few forklifttrucks, and there
where 100 sets on each pallet.
With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
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| (...) Good sleuthing! I would say that taking batches of a few hundred and directing them one way, then the other, is a fair bit of jumbling. But not as much jumbling as putting all 10000 on a waxed floor and swirling them around before repacking, I (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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