Howard

It's like, this is so charismatic, it is begging to be modeled.

And then shortly after, it goes to Howard Station, which is, uh, I'll just say this is where the fun begins.

You can see Howard is a single-platform, two-track station, and again, another very short segment of double-track.

And just around the corner from Howard is Abbott Yard, which is a very physically small but nonetheless major switching yard for the Austin Western.

But, um, oh wait, it's a little bit bigger, actually.

There are some much longer tracks over here to the side.

So I think a lot of the peak direction is just simply the more vehicles you have going in only one direction, the less you need to worry about finding spots for them to meet.

But there is one very important part of the schedule that I do want to highlight here, what I am calling a schedule pocket.