Large Scale Central

First Day of Fall on the J&B

Operations
#1

Just a perfect day for operations. Temps in the 60s, and the J&B RR is ready to start the day.

Ken showed up about 930 and we got straight to running the two trains that the J&B operates daily except for Sunday.

Train #1 is being made up in Green Springs Yard.

The run looks pretty straight forward.

Here we are switching Occoquan.

It got a bit tighter in Jackson, and we had to move cars only 2 at a time out of Buchanan Tool & Die.

There just wasn’t enough room at Matheson Textiles for the 5th car so we left it blocking a track. We had to deal with that later when Train #2 picked up a couple of cars here.

Of course by the time we got around running Train#2, I forgot to take any pictures of the run.

But, there was work to do.

Anyway, it was a great day for operating a couple of trains. We did have to dodge a number of acorns falling, but nobody was hit.

Thanks to Ken for coming down!

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#2

Nice!

#3

Looks like Ken was there for the manual labor portion while you operated the trains!

#4

Vincent D’Agostino said:

Looks like Ken was there for the manual labor portion while you operated the trains!

Yes, I had the easy part: I was the engineer. Ken was the conductor. It was great of him to come on down!

#5

So, Ken was the guy who had to bend up and down. No wonder he wants a raised railroad! (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)

#6

I don’t care what I do when I go down to Bruce’s, it’s a good time with good company and a great layout. At least we got one in this year…(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

#7

Looking good guys!

#8

Nice… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

#9

Is that the only OPs you had at Bruce’s this year? This time is a passing fast. Obviously I’m loosing track of the years. Its okay, I like it like that.

#10

Ric Golding said:

Is that the only OPs you had at Bruce’s this year? This time is a passing fast. Obviously I’m loosing track of the years. Its okay, I like it like that.

Yeah, pretty pathetic, eh?

You guys need to visit the Nation’s Capital! And stop by here for some ops. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)