mbinsewi selector I have a duck under, ssssooooo...... Yup, OK, fouled, DAH! I fouled with a "fowl". Guilty as charged. Mike.
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Yup, OK, fouled, DAH! I fouled with a "fowl". Guilty as charged.
Mike.
Someone say duck under?
This was at a show we had our club layout at a few years ago.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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Thanks for all your replies!
My layout is set up for small group operations.
At the end of a session seven staging tracks have trains, with locos on them, as this is considered the rest of the world.
The other locos are back on the engine tracks in the local yard, as the days work is complete, and the night is not modelled.
Dave
I leave them as they were when the operating session ended. That could be at the engine terminal, a staging yard, or even parked somewhere on the layout. The next session usually picks up where the last one left off after some fiddling of the rolling stock in the staging yards.
Since I am not always sure what my next session will involve, I try to leave mine in a neutral state. My operations (one man show) generally involve running 1 or 2 trains unattended on the main in a continous loop while I do hands on switching. When I shut down, I try to leave everything in a position to allow me to continue that type of activity in my next session. As a result, I park my mainline trains in a track segment that does not fowl any switches and I do not stop a switching action until it is complete. Then I park the locos in some spot that does not fowl a switch.
This allows me to start a new session by running a route that makes sure all my switches are in the correct position for mainline running so I can start up the mainline trains that were operating in my last session.
Paul D
N scale Washita and Santa Fe RailroadSouthern Oklahoma circa late 70's
ATLANTIC CENTRAL Right now, my layout is in a "rebuild", but as a rule, locos stay on the layout. And they are either heading up a train, or in the engine terminal. Most complete trains are stored in staging yards, so they are generally away from possible accidential harm. A few can be parked in the main yard. My typical freight train is 30-40 cars, pulled by 3-4 diesel units, or double headed steam. Typical passenger trains are two diesels or one steamer, pulling 8-12 cars. Sheldon
Right now, my layout is in a "rebuild", but as a rule, locos stay on the layout. And they are either heading up a train, or in the engine terminal.
Most complete trains are stored in staging yards, so they are generally away from possible accidential harm. A few can be parked in the main yard.
My typical freight train is 30-40 cars, pulled by 3-4 diesel units, or double headed steam.
Typical passenger trains are two diesels or one steamer, pulling 8-12 cars.
Sheldon
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When rebuilt, the layout will stage/store nearly 30 trains. That's about 90 powered units. Other locos are stored just like real life, in the engine terminal, or parked near their assigned work area, like a yard.
I have just the locos required. When the layout is rebuilt, there will be no shelf queens, no display cases, and none stored in boxes, just locos which have jobs, about 130 of them.
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mbinsewi so as not to fowl anything
Yes, I hate it when the chickens clutter up the place.
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Much different in a club setting. Most equipment run during non operations is usually broken up on classificaion tracks and engines to roundhouse or engine facility. It is a rather large layout with quite a few yard and enormous staging. Unit trains are generally blocked, whether club or privately owned many time placed on specific staging power units still coupled. I have a few tracks that are somewhat unused for non operations and keep the entire train stored on them. For operation or before shows and open house, it is a totally different matter. Designated unit trains that are to be used for operations can be left on the layout, however most other private equipment must be removed, The operations commitee may request some of the private stock be left and will be classified and placed by them. One reason to enpty layout is for house keeping and track cleaning. There have been quite a few times that 2 or 3 of my consist trains were not used or needed and the commitee will remove what they desire. We have some nice slide out storage and they are placed safely there. Trains like my B&O Capital Limited are left in the yard sometimes complete but most times passenger cars placed in coach yard and the E9/ 8 engines to the tranfer table or various other tracks nearby. My B&O EM1 stays on the rails as it is quite delicate and seems to have found a home in the roundhouse.
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
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After Summerset Ry crew completes their work at Slate Creek Industrial Park(SCIP) the RS-1 is parked near the office shut down and secured for the night and the crew heads over to Lakeside Industrial Park in the company's pickup truck and fires up the S-4 and performs switching duties for LSIP.When finished the S-4 is parked by the security office,shut down and secured for the night.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
I rarely have three or more locomotives going at once. By that I mean on the layout and available to me. If I feel the need to have several more available, I will place them on ladder tracks at the heads of trains, or RIP tracks, in staging, in roundhouse bays, or where I left them when called to do something else.
I feel neither compulsion to arrange them a certain way/place, nor compunction about leaving them where they were when the lights went out. I do, however, not keep locomotives gathering dust when they aren't likely to be used within a couple of weeks. I put them in containers or in a cupboard. I don't want to have to flick toggles to deaden tracks to keep their decoders from drawing even miserly bits of current unnecessarily. I put them away.
I have most of my engines on the layout all the time. 3 will go in the roundhouse, and 1 or 2 might be on the open-air tracks around the turntable. One engine (or consist) will likely be on the main with it's train, and another train may be on a passing siding. Two or 3 switchers will be in the yard or on an industrial siding. My two trolleys will usuualy be found in the 2-stall engine house. 1 subway train will be parked at the station, and the other will be at the stub-end "staging" station.
I added 4 long staging tracks a while back, so there's usually a full train with engine(s) on each of those tracks, too.
Unless I've decided to run them for a while, my ancient Athearn BB F7As and F7B will be in a box beneath the layout. Just too many locomotives to have them all up top.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I leave all engines parked in the mountains or half a metre from an edge. The main reason is that if we have an earthquake, they will most likely be saved from hitting the floor. The second reason is people that happen to come to the house are less likely to do them harm with an elbow or just by touching them. I have noticed that the farther things are from the edge, the less likely they are to be touched.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
I leave everything as is. The nextime I come down to the layout, I resume where I left off.
I do leave things in order, such as not in the middle of a switch move, cars are where they need to be, the loco I use for the switching is parked so as not to fowl anything, and I make sure the main line is clear, unless I have a train on it.
My main line is the line I use for continuos running. So sometimes I'll "tie up" on the hidden tracks, or sometimes I bring it up to the siding and tie up.
And the next time I may take that train off, and replace it with another, going the other direction, or leave the main line unoccupied for the switcher to do some "off layout" moves.
Do your engines
- Stay on the layout where you can resume operations next time?
- Head back to a roundhouse or engine shed?
- Head to the box?
- Head over to be displayed on a shelf?
Pictures of what you do would be great!
Thanks,
Andrew