Hello everyone,

I have been looking at macro(-ish) operations over my prototype (ATSF, LA 2nd district between LA and San Bernardino), and i became curious over a few things. I am after what is more logical/realistic (although if someone has that ATSF specific info that would be golden!)

I know that there were 2 local freights daily (end to end locals), one EB and one WB. They switched industries along the line and returned back to origin on the next day.Freight-loads ratio has heavy in favor of WB over the district.

As we prepare for the next run of ProtoThrottle faceplates, we are considering another special run color. Would anyone be interested in an olive green faceplate? The photos below show how this olive green color would look relative to the standard grey/blue faceplates, in some different lighting conditions. We will still keep the standard grey/blue and probably do another set of black plates.  These would be in addition to that.

Please let us know your thoughts, either way.

Thanks,
Michael

Hello all,

I'm still a ways away from the start of my layout. I'm currently working on the space it is going in. The layout will be going in a 16ft x 40ft section in my old shop that is about 25ft away from the side of our home. My intention has been to build a single deck layout, but now I'm considering a double deck so that I can use a small section of that space to use as a staging room and to have a ctc dispatching desk.

Put together a video of the westbound daily manifest M-EUKF running from Eugene Staging to Wicopee on the lower level of the layout. A lot to learn about videography and editing, but starting somewhere! Enjoy!