Sunday morning of the Gateway Garden Railroad Club Winter Meet, we had an “OPs Session”. This was the report given to those of our club that showed interest. We’re working on the others.
“Currently, beside the “Timesaver”, which has 5 set out locations, there are 5 industries on the layout, if you include Andy’s sand towers. There are more industries that may join in with a change in “real estate” ownership of modules that changed hands at the Carlyle event on Sunday afternoon.
Sunday morning, we had a small impromptu ops session. A switcher assembled a train on the track of the Timesaver, closest to the mainline. A “freight run” brought cars from the inside “set up” tracks to the double passing sidings by the bridge, and left them on the outside track of the two passing sidings. A “local freight” exchanged like cars with like cars on 4 of the 5 industries. That is a box car for a box car and a reefer for a reefer. A “transfer run” exchanged cars from the “Timesaver”, bringing inbounds in on the second track in and picked up cars on the closest to the mainline. While this was going on we had a couple of trains running at times on the 2 mainlines. It all lasted about 1.5 hours, which seemed plenty long enough.
We’ve got lots of room for expansion of this and there may be tentative plans to hold these events on the Sunday morning of a train show at 10 am and 10 am on the Sunday morning of the Carlyle Weekend.”
IT WAS FUN!!!
