I am modeling the Oregon and Northwestern Railroad Baldwin AS-616 and its detailing time. Researching MU cables has been a bit harder than anticipated. I have identified the unique connectors on several other Railroads, notably Southern Pacific, and find them modeled on several high end models. Need help with the correct name, and hopefully company that can provide the details.

So here is the information: I have three left and three right Micro engineering turnouts, I have 18 feet of flextrack and a 2'x10' ft. Table. It is code 83 if that matters and am looking for some designs other than mine. I get the shipment today (2/3) so sooner ideas come around the better! 

Awhile ago I decided I had to cut away some roadbed to add some scenic elements. I just had to have a swamp/bog crossing.

So I have a train room, 13 by 10 and there is a good chance I will knock the one wall down and make it part of a 13 by 40 railroad room. The other side of the basement will be the lounge area as the kids still use it and so will us modelers. I am going to install a deep sink and paint booth also. Just makes it easy to have everything in the same room.

. . . and on the 2nd day the Chief Operating Officer said "Let there be light," and the Chief Maintenance Officer said to his men, "Make it so." And IKEA was good . . . . Thus it began, with wire and snips and hot irons they went to work to make it a railroad.

To All: The position light signal system was used by the Pennsylvania RR ,the Baltimore & Ohio RR and a few other railroads. The dwarf type of this signal was not photographed as much as the high level signal, however. Photo by Elvin Howland. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout.

To All: I captured this gem at Ludington, Michigan on the CSX, in May, 1993. This light duty crane is a very do able scratch build! Photo by Elvin Howland. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout.

Usually you can see well cars and autorack cars making up a whole train or at least a large cut of it. But sometimes there is a mixed freight with one single well car or one single autorack car in between other cars.

Are they really spotted to a customer at some team track or so which receives only one single container or one single autorack car? Unloading a single well car somewhere should not be too complicated, you only need some crane. But unloading the upper level of an autorack car isn't too easy unless you have the right fixture for it.

What do you, the MRH community, think of this chain I am evaluating as a possible product?

On the top is Builders In Scale #250 40LPI chain
On the bottom is a much lighter chain I have been able to source.

Here are both chains shown on a model:

Coal and Steel Railroad op session on Sunday with Bill and David. They came over and we ran most of the trains. 
Note;  The car movement cards work. There are two more things I need to  improve on my layout.
1. Job card
2. Standardize switch controls.