Operations
Ops sessions using multiple ProtoThrottles
Below are some random photos and a very short video showing multiple ProtoThrottles being used in operating sessions on Joe Atkinson's Iowa Interstate layout and Tim Dickinson's Burlington Northern layout – both beautiful layouts…
Kentmere
Kentmere is a station in a "shadow box" on a lower level, it is connected to the rest of the railroad with a 3 turn helix that represents the Kentmere Branch. The industries are a combination of the Kentmere and Rockland Branches. There are the J.P.Bancroft textile mill, Brecks flour mill, and the DuPont gunpowder works (the prototype is now the Hagley Museum and Library).
Operating session - first after lots of scenery work
First operating session in quite a long time completed!
http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2018/07/beta-op-session-completed.html
Switching with the ProtoThrottle...
A quick video of some switching today with the ProtoThrottle and a LokSound - Select Direct equipped Athearn - RDG SW1500 switcher.
The CV's in the Select Direct have been changed as per Joe Atkinson's post to take full advantage of the ProtoThrottle features.
Mike Cougill post on the ProtoThrottle
Mike Cougill has a well-written post about his impressions of the ProtoThrottle from the St. Louis RPM this past weekend. I thought some of you might enjoy reading his thoughts.
CR&N - Switching Operations
I've been operating on the CR&N for a while now, and have experimented with different ways to switch my cars around. I started out just randomly picking places to move cars, but that gets old pretty quick. I moved on to the Switch List Generator available here at MRH. That Excel-based generator works well, and I like it.
Creating an operations system for my Railroad
HI Folks:
I am trying to figure out how to run operations on my modern day San Luis and Rio Grande. The system is set in a slightly alternate universe, where passenger rail never died, and has supplanted air travel, but mostly the rest is the same. The layout focuses on the area between Alamosa and walsenburg, with staging representing branch lines to Creede and Center Colorado, as well as an interchange with the BNSF in Gallup NM, and the UP in Walsenburg, CO.
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