The Kaskaskia Valley Railway will hold its 10th Annual Fall Operating Session on the first weekend of November. That is November 5 and 6, 2011. We use RailOps software for the control of car movement and radios for dispatching. It is a weekend ops session with both days starting around noon and going until nobody is running trains anymore. The setup starts on Friday and sometimes Thursday, but the actual event is Saturday and Sunday. Our goal is to run 18 trains to a schedule. Sometimes we succeed and sometimes some of the trains have to be annulled or extras have to be added. It is not really as regulated as it may sound, but there is lots of food and its a lot of fun. The portable live steam track is no more, but I hope to have some of the new trackage underway enough to show what changes are being made on the railroad for continued operations as we all mature with this hobby and it will all connect to the current KVRwy trackage. This doesn’t mean that live steam won’t run in the future, but it will share trackage with everyone else. Anyway, if you can make it to 50 miles east of St. Louis, Missouri, you are certainly welcome to join us. There are usually about 25 to 30 people for the weekend. For more information contact me at [email protected] or [email protected], as we move away from our business world.
Yep, assistant dispatcher and relief yardmaster marking up…
I didn’t know Ric needed relief… 
Jean and I plan to be there…
Andy Clarke said:Well it as just because i happened to not be doing anything and was at the top of the stairs.......
I didn't know Ric needed relief..... :)
Hopefully Cody and I will make it this year, I will e-mail you when we get closer Ric, moving and taking down the RR, dont know if I am going to build again, lots of decisions to make.
Tom H
Bart Salmons said:As an old 911 dispatcher, I guess old habit's die hard..................BTW, I'll pick ya up on the way by...........;)Andy Clarke said:Well it as just because i happened to not be doing anything and was at the top of the stairs.......
I didn't know Ric needed relief..... :)
Ken Brunt said:He never picks me up.... :(Bart Salmons said:As an old 911 dispatcher, I guess old habit's die hard..................BTW, I'll pick ya up on the way by...........;)Andy Clarke said:Well it as just because i happened to not be doing anything and was at the top of the stairs.......
I didn't know Ric needed relief..... :)
Andy Clarke said:Nor do I charge shipping and handling .........;)Ken Brunt said:He never picks me up.... :(Bart Salmons said:As an old 911 dispatcher, I guess old habit's die hard..................BTW, I'll pick ya up on the way by...........;)
Well it as just because i happened to not be doing anything and was at the top of the stairs.......
Count on me being there.
I’ll swing by your place on Friday, Andy. Where do you want to go?
I am planing to be there both days at this time. I hope to have a new engineer runing by that time.
Bruce Chandler said:To the moon, Alice! To the moon.
I'll swing by your place on Friday, Andy. Where do you want to go?
Bruce Chandler said:Lil Nashville Diner..........where else??????? ;)
I'll swing by your place on Friday, Andy. Where do you want to go?
(crackin up) they know me so well…
Haystack…4eggs…with hamburger patties…
Can someone swing by and pick me up? I checked the dates for sky miles. No good. They want 100K per ticket for that weekend 
Bart Salmons said:Bart, I've backed off, since I got sick.... Just a regular plain ole haystack now..... :)
Haystack....4eggs....with hamburger patties......
Andy Clarke said:He gets cold now, also. Its the strangest thing.Bart Salmons said:Bart, I've backed off, since I got sick.... Just a regular plain ole haystack now..... :)
Haystack....4eggs....with hamburger patties......
Ric Golding said:He's still grumpy though.....;)Andy Clarke said:He gets cold now, also. Its the strangest thing.Bart Salmons said:Bart, I've backed off, since I got sick.... Just a regular plain ole haystack now..... :)
Haystack....4eggs....with hamburger patties......