Certainly, there are many reasons to feature rail served industries on a layout beyond the operational aspect. If you’re modeling a section of a specific prototype, and the industry is there, you’d probably want to include it on your layout just to be accurate. You’d do so whether you care about operations or not. If […]
Category: Operations
Working the Freight House
With the freight house scene now complete, I can have some enjoyable mini op. sessions through scenery. I like to run a short solo session at least once a week. These are simple affairs running less than hour. I recently staged a simple scenario centered around working the freight house and was surprised […]
East Rail on Film!
Here’s a blast from the past….Splitting off of Miami’s “East Rail” siding, just south of the main industrial park, is a one track spur that dives into the weeds, and weaves through concrete canyons between closely packed structures. At the end of the spur there is a blind crossing of 37th Avenue to reach an […]
Brooklyn Terminal ProRail Ops
ProRail, the national operations convention, is now in the bag. I was a little surprised how drawn the attendees were to running the BT layout. For the most part it ran well although some minor track tuning issues cropped up. Approaches to this entire “operations” thing varies from person to person and layout host to […]
Operating the LAJ
While waiting for supplies to come in for the Brooklyn Terminal layout, I doubled back to other areas. As a host layout for the upcoming ProRail national operating convention, it’s time to make sure all of my ducks are in a row. I’ll be running both the Downtown Spur and LAJ layouts simultaneously so will […]