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Virginia SouthWestern N&W OP SESSION March 2013
See big time N&W steam and diesels on my Virginia Southwestern HO layout during last weekends OP Session.
Some Chesapeake, Wheeling & Erie Video
After seeing the recent thread about posting videos to the forum, I finally bit the bullet and got an HD video camera. I read through the short tutorial the Questions and Answers page under the Help tab on the MRH website and figured out how to embed them into a post. So here goes.
First up, we see COXL 41 (COal EXtra Loads- North Pierce, WV to Hunters Bay, VA) emerging from Logan Tunnel heading east out of Hollister Yard at North Pierce.
Yard Signal Protection
AKA, what is Benny up to?
And we know with the Bowie Station out the door, Benny is up to SOMETHING!!
Indeed - I've jumped into the signaling pool, feet first!
SWITCHING INDUSTRIES IN N. GLENDALE AZ
to all
here is the switching action that i was asking about in my last post. i decided rather than pushing the empties back that i would drive the locos down the main to the east end of glendale siding & switch into the siding to pull the cars back home.
some how a whole section of the video is missing. after switching the last cars to phoenix plastics, i drove the power to the east end of glendale siding & coupled up to the empties & proceeded down the hill to mobest yard.
here's the video
Lone Wolf Operations?
I am building the Cornhill & Atherton as a “Lone Wolf”, through both circumstance and choice. This is a situation that is unlikely to change and I’m quite happy with it. But some time in the future I’m going to finish the build phase (unless I run out of cash) and then what?
The last thing I want to do is lose interest and have to start another railroad build, so I’m keen to operate the layout with something like car cards/waybills.
Is it prototypical...
to load/unload on a branch's mainline? I have a particular situation that would require such an occurance, but since there only a couple of trains a day up this branch, it makes no sense to move a bunch of buildings and add in a siding, if the loading can be accomplished while the train is at the far end of the line. The cars can simply be picked up on the return trip.
The caboose would be left at the station at (not yet named) and the conductor and brakeman would ride the engine to the end of the line, make setouts/pick ups, and then back down to get the caboose.
The Monday Night Mail Train
I send out the attachment as an e-mail to thank those who come to operating sessions on the Kanunda & Emu Flat Railway. Also to those who could not make the session and to former operators and friends.
The Monday night mail train is also a record of progress on my layout.
Ken
Locomotive
I have a Lionel Locomotive in a box for 25 years. It will run in reverse but in forward it will only hum and throw sparks.
Information Sheets
I use CC&WB for operations. I have color coded blocking for my trains and I provide the yards/stations with blocking sheets so the operators know where the cars go in the trains. I had been putting them flat on the fascia, but those could be hard to read, you had to step back to see them . Taping or rubber cementing them to the fascia made it difficult to update or change them.
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