mbinsewiWhich with the summer weather I am experiencing, maybe a week or more, or even a month. Mike.
Mike,When the temps reach into the 90s with high humidity I stay under the AC except in the cool of the mornings.
I don't see my operation as a job..I see it as emulating a day of work on a terminal switching road.
I do follow the basic operation and safety rules.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
I guess I'm not as structured and diciplined the way alot of operators are. I switch cars when I want to. I run main line trains when I want to. I pick and drop off cars when I want to.
I never considered my model railroading as a job. When I turn on the lights, power up the Digitrax, the work day begins, or maybe just an evening of watching a train on the continuous run.
When I turn off the power, the day is done, and everything is stood still in time, until I return. Which with the summer weather I am experiencing, maybe a week or more, or even a month.
Mike.
My You Tube
Here's a day on the SSRy. The crew fires up #60 a RS-1 and heads for the N&W interchange and picks up the inbound cars and returns to Slate Creek Industrial Park and does the required work the crew takes the outbound cars to the N&W Interchange and returns to SCIP and parks 61 near the office and secures the engine for the night...
After lunch the crew heads over to Lakeside Industrial Park in the company's pickup truck and fires up the S-4( #50) and heads for the CR interchange and returns with the inbound cars and after doing the required work they take the outbound cars to CR.
Upon their returned to LSIP they park #50 by the security office,they shut down and secured #50 for the night and heads back to SCIP where they clock out and go home..
After finishing SCIP I will start the build on LSIP.
To me, operational diversity = money for more rolling stock than I really need.
I like what I like, and run what I like, on a modest 81 lineal foot HO mainline. I don't feel the need to change out entire trains when I can run one long train of all my favorite freight cars or rather of all cars that would fit within siding limits.
I like high end detailed rolling stock, including for example, the Intermountain autoracks, but just have less of it...enough for one big long train.
Mainly, the trains are run for me to relax after a long day of everything else. I rotate engines as desired, but often keep a freight train consist the same for awhile.
John
i actually operate (solo) ... several trains in staging. I have a small passenger train that stops at the two stations before returning to staging, i have a coal train that swaps cars at a mine spur and a freight that switches freight cars at 5 industries. i run the freight or coal after the passenger so that they have to work around one another (a la Ellison).
this is interesting, but repetitious.
I see Byron has a page discussing this: Fun Ops -- Small Layout
wondering what others do to vary operation?
(sorry, i'm not interested in waiting 5 mins after switching the siding turnout before leaving the siding).
greg - Philadelphia & Reading / Reading