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Operations: As simple as it gets

Mon, 2020-03-02 10:06 — roadglide

Now that the Meantime layout is fully functional, it was time to come up with an operations scheme that would be simple and easy. Car Cards and Waybills was too much for this small layout. Computer programs? Again too much work.

So this is what I came up with.

 

Its similar to the Car Order Card system, except I am using Car Spots instead of industry names. I labeled each car spot 1 through 18.

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Happy 50th Birthday Burlington Northern!

Mon, 2020-03-02 04:15 — RXR

50 years ago today, on March 2nd, 1970, the merging of the Great Northern Railway (GN), Northern Pacific Railway (NP), Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway (SPS) and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CBQ) occurred forming the Burlington Northern Railroad.

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