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An Informal Poll on O Scale Prototype Operations

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Posted by vsmith on Saturday, October 16, 2010 12:32 PM

Kinda hard to do proto ops when ya haz to wind up everything and it tears around the track at 400mph Smile, Wink & Grin

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An Informal Poll on O Scale Prototype Operations
Posted by wallyworld on Saturday, October 16, 2010 11:45 AM

This is not a inferred value judgment, just my curiosity that another thread sparked. The HO scale folks or at least a lot of folks who write on HO scale often promote "prototypical" operations. You know, waybills, assorted paperwork, scheduled trains, dispatchers, even crew callers. My question is this: How many of us in O scale ( clubs, lone wolves etc) follow or emulate this method of running trains. If so, what are the positives and negatives? The reason I am asking is ignorance. Is this an anomaly in O scale these days or common? 

As a lone wolf I am just curious about the rest of the pack...

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

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