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HI Rail Ops Operation and maintenance
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Prolific poster 2,152 posts Scarpia Prolific poster 2,152 posts
Scarpia

Being back in New England for a couple of weeks, I was able to attend the regularly scheduled ops sessions on my friends layout (If you live near Lake Champlain, and you are a member of opsig, you should check it out!).

Just as a quick reminder, this is an American Flyer S layout, designed purely for operations, and based on the New Haven.

My host was kind enough to offer me my choice of jobs, and I chose the road freights. I can get enough switching now at home, but I can't really run long trains.

I was able to run a coal drag to Boston, complete with a helper for part of the way, and a very long 27 cars, 3 locos) through freight. 27 cars may not seem like much, but that makes for a long train in S!

No videos, sorry, just some still pictures prior to the start of the operating system.

A beautiful, out of scale, plywood prairie awaits!

 

Looking at the passenger yard, and part of the main

Main freight yard

Love the rolling stock


A far cry from JRMI, but somehow works all the same.

 

Looking down the branch

 

Resting power

 

A few G-Scale goodies in the rafters.

 
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On30, circa 1900  

 
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ajcaptain Regular poster 300 posts
ajcaptain

Interesting...

I'm curious.  Does your friend plan on ever doing scenery, or his he totally satisfied with ops?

John C

John C
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royhoffman Regular poster 374 posts
royhoffman

Sharing the article

It's interesting to note that in considering some of the discussions that whether a layout is scenery based, operations based, or both that absolute realism is tantamount.  Here is a case that you can just rely on a basic hirail layout with no scenery and come up with an exciting and enjoyable experience.

Model Railroading IS fun!

BTW, Would it be OK to share this with the S yahoo chat groups?

 

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Roy Hoffman

The S/Sn3 Scale Penn Western Railroad -
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Scarpia Prolific poster 2,152 posts
Scarpia

Satisfied

John, he's 100% satisfied with Ops.

Roy, I have no problems with sharing, but let me check with the layout owner to make sure he's ok with it.

 
HO, early transition erahttp://www.garbo.org/MRRlocal time PST
On30, circa 1900  

 
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Scarpia Prolific poster 2,152 posts
Scarpia

Roy

Roy, Bruce gave the green light to share, please add a reminder though that his layout is listed on Kalmbach and OPSIG. He'd love to have some new people join him if they are interested. He's in Rutland, Vermont.

Personally, I'd recommend it.

 
HO, early transition erahttp://www.garbo.org/MRRlocal time PST
On30, circa 1900  

 
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splitrock323 Prolific poster 1,364 posts
splitrock323

Thinking outside the box...

This must be a lot of fun. Most of believe S scale, and especially AF stuff belongs around the Christmas tree. What a great set up. The New Haven makes a great choice. Hope we hear more about high rail fun and operations out there. Thomas G.

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royhoffman Regular poster 374 posts
royhoffman

I shared it.

I shared it on the AF yahoo group and the S scale yahoo group. One thing that hi-rail gives you is excellent performance which sure makes operations go more smoothly.

 

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Roy Hoffman

The S/Sn3 Scale Penn Western Railroad -
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proto87stores Frequent poster 806 posts
proto87stores

Memory Lane Question

I thought these types of classic trains were 3-rail. Did they change, or was this a different system from the start?

Andy
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Ken Glover kfglover Super User 1,499 posts
Ken Glover kfglover

Different...

The American Flyer S gage has been 2-rail at least since 1949 when I got my first trains for Christmas.

Ken Glover,

HO, Digitrax, Soundtraxx PTB-100, JMRI (LocoBuffer-USB), ProtoThrottle (WiThrottle server)

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