I have been thinking about what jobs there could be on a model railroad. I can think of the these. Dispatcher, Conductor, Engineer, MOW Foreman, Hosler and Brakeman. Are there any others that my fellow modelers can think of? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Oilers, coal men, facility maintenance, mechanic, track gang, billing and receiving, clerks, switch master, electrician, signal maintainer, and corporate CEO.
Since my rail world is so low budget. I'm forced to keep payroll to a minimum and jobs are done using fewer people. I have 3 full time people. Me, Myself, and I. One CFO. That position remains the most important and temporarily understaffed at the moment due to Workshop Induced Financial Exhaustion. WIFE for short.
Pete.
Tower operator
Switch tender
Mark
For operating sessions, snack provider and cat shoo-er.
I've got lots of little working people just for decoration. Beekeepers, waitstaff, roof repair guys, fishermen, carfloat workers, ladies of the evening, woodcutters, truck drivers, grocers, a barber and others.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
caldreamer I have been thinking about what jobs there could be on a model railroad. I can think of the these. Dispatcher, Conductor, Engineer, MOW Foreman, Hosler and Brakeman. Are there any others that my fellow modelers can think of? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
So most of the larger layouts where I have been involved with operating sessions have:
Engineers, typically mainline engineers of thru trains work alone.
Local crews, an engineer and conductor/brakeman who work together to switch cars, throw turnouts, operate the loco and manage paperwork/car cards, etc.
Mainline dispatcher or dispatch team, depending on the setup. When complete, my CTC panel will allow two people to work together at the task, and contrary to popular methods, the panel controls will not be like a real CTC panel, they will be simplified and specific to my control system.
Yard master/station master, the freight yard will have a yard master, who can double as a loco hostler, and preform some or all of the yard switching - but in any event he controls who and what enters or leaves the yard limits. A station master is a similar job for a larger passenger terminal.
Tower Operator, My layout will have local tower panels and can be operated without the dispatcher. Engineers can be their own tower operator of several additional people can be assigned to that task.
That's my list.
Sheldon
MisterBeasleycat shower
I thought that cats didn't like to get wet. Why would they want a shower?
maxman MisterBeasley cat shower I thought that cats didn't like to get wet. Why would they want a shower?
MisterBeasley cat shower
You are correct. That's what I meant to say. However, auto modify (as opposed to auto correct) decided otherwise.
My daughter has a cat that does like to join her for a shower. We had a parakeet that did the same.
Tower Operator was maybe the most common job in the early days of the hobby, at least for large layouts. Some O gauge club layouts had operator booths, sometimes elevated a bit above the layout, where they sat side by side and ran the trains from there. Some had separate blocks, each with it's own throttle and direction controls. You sat at one section and controlled each train as it came through your area. Walkaround controllers where the engineer could follow a train around the layout didn't happen until like 1970 or so.