Dave if you want to do your small layout ops article we will take it, but don’t expect it to appear any earlier than spring 2022.

That is what I'm here for is good ops articles...

I suggest people subscribe to the OpSig.org Dispatcher's Office.

the entire light ops thing is a joke,   Operations all boils down to a few basic ideas.

Get Car into Train going from A to B

Get train going from A to B

Get car out of train going from A to B

So, for a small layout, switch lists, or even car cards and waybills are often more than satisfactory to "operate the layout." On a larger layout though, formal operations may start to demand a time table, scheduled trains etc.

On a basement clogger this is "relatively" easy. If you the owner are in to operations, you will collect people who are also in to operations and the complexity will be supported by those that operate with you.

If I can do something myself then that's my preferred route so when I needed a program to produce a switching list I decided to write it myself. A few years ago I would have likely written in in the BASIC programming language but as time has moved on I decided to write it in Python, a more modern language.

This is a pretty neat video showing some basic operations concepts graphically.  

Randy