Innovative Scheduling provides advisory consulting services to transportation companies. Our executives have offered their opinion on issues ranging from strategic options for labor negotiations to the best geographic location for new yards and shops. We often use our own software tools to generate one-time solutions, or "clean sheet" plans, for a railroad's blocking network, train schedules, or locomotive requirements. Railroads refer to these "clean sheet" plans as they update their service design plans, set five-year operating and capital budgets, purchase new locomotive fleets, set future manpower plans, and calculate return-on-investment for large infrastructure projects. Our models are especially suited for