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anteaum2666 MRH Author 2,824 posts
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Good explanation Joe!

I really enjoyed this writeup.  Your breakdown of the Traffic Control form and authority was well done.  An ops session like this sounds fun!

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Ken Oil Belt Railway New member 8 posts
Ken Oil Belt Railway
Excellent article. I don't have a layout yet, but hope to one day. The info in this article will be of great help to me if and when I get a layout built.
Ken
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ctxmf74 Super User 15,946 posts
ctxmf74
Make running trains more fun?  

How about a multi tracked slot car type road racing course and see who can get their trains around it the fastest? ....DaveB

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jeffshultz MRH Staff 7,978 posts
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He with the Athearn Hustler wins? 

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Modeling a fictional GWI shortline combining three separate areas into one freelance-ish railroad.
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ctxmf74 Super User 15,946 posts
ctxmf74
"He with the Athearn Hustler wins? "

Hi Jeff, I don't know if Hustler has enough flanges to hang on in the corners,  I'm thinking Centipede mainly because it sounds clingy...DaveB 
 

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Rich Nichols WestRiver Active Member 98 posts
Rich Nichols WestRiver
Dave is onto something here.  But we need a figure 8 layout like dirt track racing, to beat the other engineer to the Xing!  Operation is not for wimps...

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ctxmf74 Super User 15,946 posts
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"But we need a figure 8 layout like dirt track racing"

LOL  Those are fun. I raced on them back in the 60's ....DaveB

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IronBeltKen Super User 659 posts
IronBeltKen
I loved  this article!  It read almost like a checklist of how I've been operating my own layout over the past 10 years  (albeit on a much smaller scale than the Siskiyou Line):  Bringing in trains to a central yard from "somewhere out there" (a.k.a. staging); having a local destination for every car  on each incoming train; sending out trains to switch the local industries; and finally, sending the locally-retrieved cars from the central yard on the departing intercity trains headed for the outside world. This has proven to be a fail-safe formula for keeping 3-5 guest operators pleasantly occupied for 2 hours during each of my bi-monthly op sessions.

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