Yesterday I went to the second operating session with my new "Broadway Limited, Paragon2 Series SD-40-2. It was basically a repeat of the first week. After a period of time, put the engine back is its box and get out my Bachman 2-8-0 to continue my local freight work.

This is my last blog posting for this worked example of using JMRI Operations to create the switch lists for Lance Mindheim’s bakery switching layout.

Here are a couple of videos from my buddy's HO Lehigh Valley layout.

Here are some pictures of the strainers I use and some of the results.

Richard Superintendent CNW Peninsula Division

First post here.  Member for over two years.  Mostly I've been studying, reading, absorbing.  Learning DCC, very excited by what can be done JMRI, computers, occupancy detection, signaling, routes, dispatching, oh just say everything and be done with it.  I built my first computer in 1980.  Worked with communication electronics in the Navy.  Experience on PLC programing troubleshooting and general everything electronic fix it man. 

A little background

Watch the Union Pacific Railroad Yard in North Plate, NE.  This shot comes form the Golden Spike Tower. Built and paid for with you Tax dollars.  Project of USDA.  Explain that.

http://www.visitnorthplatte.com/Golden-Spike-Live-Web-Cam.html

This web cam at present does not work on apple anything. It's flash player based.

Mike Hamer and I got together over the holidays and decided to put together a series of videos on how to efficiently operate a model railroad. In four parts, the show covers:

Part 1. What to look for when coming to a new railroad. Areas to pay attention to.
Part 2. How to switch, doing lifts and drops from a mainline train
Part 3. Understanding arrival at a major yard and locomotive moves
Part 4. Switching a yard and industrial area efficiently.

PART 1

Now some progress on my Ullapool project.
The trackwork is now laid on module 2 and on module 3 there only the tracks that connect with module 4 have to be laid.
The next stepts are soldering the wires on the tracks, and cutting the tracks on the joint between modules 2 and 3.
Then joining modules 3 and 4 and laying the rest of the track.

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Markus

Here is a new video of the D&M, a northbound on the Oak Orchard trestle, near New Albany.  CNW 1665 and 1619 on the point today account D&M road engine on work train at Aberdeen.