Operations

Home / Operations

Allied Mills: An engaging mini-layout

Replacement Couplers for Rivorassi and AHM passenger cars

Thu, 2015-10-01 10:12 — trainmaster247

Where can I find replacement trucks and or couplers for old versions of these cars. They all have Horn-Hook couplers and I would like to give them Kadees. Any suggestions would be greatly appreicated.

Are any of these controllers safe to use?

Wed, 2015-09-30 12:27 — trainmaster247

Does anyone know if it is safe for me to use these? Also what is Full vs. Pulse Power?

Operating Florida City

Mon, 2015-09-28 05:12 — fecbill

Just read Somewhere Southwest post of operations. I thought I would post how I operate my FEC Florida City shelf switching layout.

Operating on a layout with signals manually controlled

Fri, 2015-09-25 10:45 — Neal M

QUESTION: Has anyone operated on a layout that has signals controlled manually by a dispatcher versus block occupancy or a computer driven software program? Would like to hear some feedback on how the session went. I've added signals to control both interlocking areas on my layout and will have some of the guys over to 'test' running trains. This will be a learning experience for the operators as well as myself.

Thanks to all who reply

Neal

13 comments

Switching Greenfield Ethanol with JMRI

Tue, 2015-09-22 00:59 — Joe Baker

Over the past month I've done some experimenting with JMRI and feel comfortable with most of the programs' operations features, however, I've hit a small snag developing a switch list for the Greenfield Ethanol portion of my layout.

All moves within the plant will be conducted by a track mobile. A local will set-out and pick-up cars on track GE3.

Saturday op session on coal and steel rr

Mon, 2015-09-21 08:39 — Coal and steel rr

Operations

Jonah and me had op session. we switched between conductor and engineer. switching New castle have way through switching new castle the remote stop working. we thick the Antenna broke in the remote.

Any guesses to what these Wood chip hoppers are?

Sat, 2015-09-12 09:30 — Ngwpwer

Here are some hoppers carrying wood chips in 1984 of an Alco S1 in Quincy Railroad livery. I cannot make out what kind of car is being used to haul the wood chips from the lumber mill to the main line to be picked up by the WP. Have looked on Google with no answers, they are UP & maybe Great Northern cars, dump cars. Could they be grain cars with their roofs removed?