Do you simulate RR operations on your layout?

[wrmcclellan]

 

I enjoy seeing how many engines I can control without collision.  What difference does it make if a freight blows by a station at scale 260 smph?  Or running an 027 engine with scale cars? 

Don - LOL - this is why we call it "toy trains". For those of us that use the third rail - I think it provides extra stability when a freight blows by a station at a scale 260 mph.

Actually I do simulate real operations on my layout. The crews are on strike and there is dormant equipment stacked everywhere!

[dbaker48]

Watched a train video last night on layout operations, it was N scale.  This guy had a lyout, rather nice but small.  Anyway there were about4 guys operating trains on it, and they were simulating ACTUAL train operations.  Now, these folks really seemed to be wound tight.  Didn't look like fun to me.

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There were 4 guys running the layout.  Which included a Yardmaster, Assistant and 2 guys running the trains.  They had "Car Cards", which had to be filled out correctly, and verified.  The information that is verified must be underlined or the train cannot run.  

Once the train leaves the yard the engineer ACTUALLY calls on a telephone to report that the train left.  Then as they go through each block, he must call report the transistion and time.  He cannot proceede without confirmation.

The layout had these card boxes, that must have the card deposited in as the car moves by or the train completes a leg.  Then there must be a receiving guy who records what time the train arrives and when the cars are left at there destination.

Another guy was running a commuter train, measuring accuracy to schedule, using a scale clock with surpressed time.

Stacking dominoes would have been more fun.  After watching this video I went outside and crushed empty cardboard boxes for awhile, I was tense!! 

I enjoy seeing how many engines I can control without collision.  What difference does it make if a freight blows by a station at scale 260 smph?  Or running an 027 engine with scale cars?