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[QUOTE]Originally posted by George Harris: [QB] Sometimes it does take more time into the last stop if the train has to go through a wye and back in. For this add 10 to 15 minutes to the straight out time. There may need to be an extra 5 minutes or so if there are hand throw switches involved that would already be set for the outbound. But, usually this extra time into the terminal station is simply padding in the schedule. It varies with the train, length of run, and normal timliness of the schedule. About 5 to 10 minutes is really not padding at all, but allowing for glitches that would not happen to the departing train. 15 to 20 minutes is fairly normal for a medium distance run. It was seldom more than 15 to 30 minutes when the railroads themselves were running the trains. Most of teh long distance trains seem to have over 30 minutes up to an hour of padding. A few are rediculously more. I think that at one time the Sunset had near 2 hours of padding into Los Angeles. George [/QB][/QUOTE]
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