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Communication System
All,
I am trying to find a low cost communications system that uses telephone handsets for our operating sessions. Any help on systems or plans for systems will be greatly appreciated.
Al
Trains in the Wilderness. BC Rail's North End Lives on in N Scale
Some steady progress over the last few months has allowed more trains to cross the Peace River on the N Scale Fort St. John Subdivision. Northern British Columbia, Canada is a remote place and there aren't many trains, but here are a couple I caught crossing the bridge.
First a northbound...
Return to the Basin
It's been a while since we had anything worth saying about the Sudbury Division, but we can report we are still chugging away, though not with steam locos. You may recall we were having issues with electrical pickup in our last installment (Tales from the Basin Part 2), and we had to work long and hard to get that under control. Last summer we took every car off the layout and cleaned each of their wheels individually with cotton swabs and alcohol, cleaned all the locomotives and all the track from top to bottom.
Power to tonnage forumla
Ok guys question:
When setting up a train do any of you use a formula for # of locos for X amount of weight
ie 1000 hp required for every 750 tons etc
obviously steep grades and other whatnot would add a degree of difficulty into this but im looking for a general good rule of thumb
Revisit water cars?
Hi, Joe, going through some of our old (2004) communications and I noticed that for all eastbound (north) trains the water car operations were at Oakland. Somehow I missed when they were moved to Roseburg. Curious as to when and why? John Colley, Port Townsend, WA Day Late and Dollar Short Line
Operating Paperwork
The Penn Lake uses several type of paperwork for operations. Although set in the early 70s, most of the operating forms are based on the current forms I use everyday.
Instead of TT&TO, PL's dark territory uses track warrants, based on the NORAC Form D:
CSX & BNSF on CN tracks?
I live near the Flint Subdivision CN line from Flint to Port Huron MI. Often I see the ocassional CSX train amongst the hundreds of CN trains that pass through here every year. I understand that CSX has track rights. Today for the first time I saw a train with two BNSF locomotives and a CSX locomotive pulling a long string of auto racks. Can someone explain the odd motive power arrangement?
BTW the paint on the BNSF locos looked real fresh and was georgous especially when contrasted against the dull weathered CSX unit.
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