ive decided to tackle one of my most difficult model railroading projects to date, cleaning up and organizing the train room. In the process I found a small dry erase board. I'm wondering if it should go in the Goodwill box or save it. Is there any use for it during operating sessions?
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
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At the club we use a dry-erase board for the crew sign-up board, a larger one for the train lineup, and also one in the yard office to keep track of current track assignments (which changes as trains arrive and depart based on current requirements) and # of cars.
Chris van der Heide
My Algoma Central Railway Modeling Blog
Several years ago my neighbor was throwing out some of his childrens no longer needed toys and games. One item was an easel with a chalkboard on one side and a grease pencil board on the other side. I painted 3 verticle lines on both sides for the names of train operators, the decoder addresses being used, the track in use and direction of travel. I took it up to my club and we use it to avoid problems during ops sessions at meetings.
I've been thinking of getting one to keep track of which trains are where in hidden staging.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I have one that is also magnet friendly. I use it to keep track of which locomotive is the lead in a consist. Sometimes I have not run a consist in a while and forget which engine the address is set to.
I bought a bunch of magnetic label thingies and made them up so I can rearrange the consists if I want to.
Whiteboards are also handy to write down items you may need to order for a project. I'm always losing Post-It™ notes!
Ed