I can't believe that I received the new issue Friday and now on Sunday morning I have read it all. MR must be doing something right to get my interest to that extant.
That being said, I have a question about the layout on page 41, P & W division. When a train leaves Pittsburgh, east staging, am I correct that it must travel "wrong way" until it gets to Wildwoood Mine? Or, was a cross over left off the drawing. Or did they have ctc at the time modeled? On the territory I worked from 1973 to 2003, we didn't have ctc until sometime after 1978 when I transfered to the yard. The only time I worked a train between Topeka and Kansas City going the wrong way was when a section gang was working or a derailment. Just curious, don't mean to nitpick. I have not been back in the hobby long enough to nit pick.
Still waiting for September. The electronic guys get theirs even earlier.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Still waiting for mine too. I usually get my print issue around the 1st of the month. Didn't arrive today either. This issue seems unusually late.
midaro Still waiting for mine too. I usually get my print issue around the 1st of the month. Didn't arrive today either. This issue seems unusually late.
I agree, mine hasn't come yet either, although my mail hasn't come yet for today.
Hi,
My September issue arrived today.
Looking at the track diagram, I would agree that another crossover would probably be handy to have closer to the "departure" track of the staging yard.
Out of necessity, many things we have on our layouts seem to involve a compromise in one way or another. Of course, there's always that exception where you can find a "prototype" example, such as the back-up move required by the CSX to run trains between Indianapolis and Cincinnati, where they wye the entire train in Ridgeway, Ohio. They have planned a crossover for more than ten years but, so far as I know, it hasn't been installed yet.
I have a double-ended staging yard but if I want to run trains out the "other end" I'll use a "puller" to pull the train back out of staging, cut off, then the road power ties on to the other end, makes a brake test and heads out. Then the reverse-move power follows the train and heads back into the staging when the switch can be thrown off the main.
Certainly adds to the operating interest.
Good Luck, Ed
My September issue was in the mail Monday.
loosecaboose73 That being said, I have a question about the layout on page 41, P & W division. When a train leaves Pittsburgh, east staging, am I correct that it must travel "wrong way" until it gets to Wildwoood Mine? Or, was a cross over left off the drawing.
That being said, I have a question about the layout on page 41, P & W division. When a train leaves Pittsburgh, east staging, am I correct that it must travel "wrong way" until it gets to Wildwoood Mine? Or, was a cross over left off the drawing.
While I can't speak about the layout in the magazine, I can tell you that Amtrak will run backwards a bit and back into the train station. The tracks around Pittsburgh are crazy due to the geography.
Freight trains will go on the main line, pass the Amtrak station, take a 90 degree right curve, cross a bridge, and then take another 90 degree left curve while going down hill...