Large Scale Central

PartOne-POC Operations DayOne-13 Photos

Operations
#1

I’ve put this in two parts for the dial up guys. Terry Foley stopped by and of course we had to run trains. What else? :slight_smile:

Engineer Foley at the ready with his train, a special to drop the very first car at Foley’s Fast Freight Forwarders in Bandon. This honor was reserved just for him.

Number 7 hustles its train across Davis Slough trestle to the rhythm of creaking timbers.

Terry eases his charge off the trestle to the safety of solid ground.

Special arrives at Bandon.

Foley Freight is a facing siding so Terry backs his train onto the passing siding to drop it and allow number 7 to run around and push the whole string.

The intended car, J&B 109, is gently pushed into the Foley siding.

Terry uncouples boxcar J&B 109.

The very first car spotted at Foley Freight and the very first revenue service for J&B 109.

Terry begins assembling cars for return trip. There are 7 cars on the Coquille Jct. interchange and one reefer at the fish cannery to be picked up.

After plucking the reefer from the fish cannery (siding only, cannery not built yet) Terry adds it to the string of cars.

Number 7 pushes its string of cars to clear the tunnel entrance where the remaining four cars, all boxcars, are sitting preparatory to including them in the train.

OOPS !!! Crash Foley runs a switch and puts number 7 on the ties.

You can read the guilt written all over the face of our unfortunate engineer. Tch, tch! Will he get ol’ number 7 back on the rails? Will Crash Foley finish his work? Will the train ever see Coos Bay again? Will Foley be sacked? Gad!!! Tune in to Part Two to find out! :wink: http://www.largescalecentral.com/LSCForums/viewtopic.php?pid=75703#p75703

#2

The POC has grown a bit since I was there…I like that caboose. One of these days I’ve got to build one like that.

Thanx for the pix and the story.

#3

Richard,

Your “Ops Reports” are always entertaining and very believable. I can easily feel the determination and desires of the railroad and the people that run it. Your work truely inspires me. Thank you for sharing.

#4

Wow, that is really neat. The scenery is great and so are the pictures.

But, I’m confused. It looks like it was sunny. Isn’t there supposed to be rain??? :wink:

#5
Bruce Chandler said:
Wow, that is really neat. The scenery is great and so are the pictures.

But, I’m confused. It looks like it was sunny. Isn’t there supposed to be rain??? :wink:


Algore’s fixin that…:wink:

#6
Bruce Chandler said:
Wow, that is really neat. The scenery is great and so are the pictures.

But, I’m confused. It looks like it was sunny. Isn’t there supposed to be rain??? :wink:


Oregon law…we don’t allow rain on operations days…unless you come from Virginia! :wink:

#7

Richard Smith said:

(http://lscdata.com/users/richard_smith/Visitors/TerryFoley28Sep2008/2008Sep28-24-CrashFoleyLooksGuilty-Web.JPG)

You can read the guilt written all over the face of our unfortunate engineer. Tch, tch! Will he get ol’ number 7 back on the rails? Will Crash Foley finish his work? Will the train ever see Coos Bay again? Will Foley be sacked? Gad!!! Tune in to Part Two to find out! :wink:

Chuckle! If I ever need a screen saver with a guilt theme, this is it!

#8

Richard:

Of course the locomotive crew (both engineer and fireman) is responsible for seeing that each switch is ‘lined up’ before moving through it.

But the question remains as to who was the brakeman in charge of actually lining the switch? That person would also seem to be partly at fault. That is unless he is the owner of the railroad!! :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :wink:

You guys look to be having at least the required amount of fun operating your beautiful railroad! Are there any pix of both of you together?

Happy RRing,

Jerry

#9

Jerry,

The advantage of being Prexy is that you always have several layers of underlings beneath you to take the rap! hehe!

As to a photo of both of us; that was too much to ask of any camera all at once. :smiley:

#10

Great pics, and sounds like a very fun time!

BTW, if your railroad hasn’t been featured in GR yet, it should be!

#11

Great operation run… Beautiful layout…

#12

Thanks guys. Appreciate the compliments.

Ray,
While flattering I don’t believe my RR is what GR mag wants or promotes. It is definately not a garden railroad but rather a railroad outdoors and on benchwork at that. I think it falls into a crack that represents neither railroading through the garden or fine modeling as its construction is more of a movie set category thus excluding it from my favorite magazine, the “Gazette”, as well I would think. If “Outdoor Railroader” still existed it might fit in there. Fortunately for the POC Steve Conkle thinks it is worth saving to pdf file. :slight_smile:
http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/stevec/POC%20RR/POC_Main.pdf

#13

I think it would fit in GR just fine. Most of the raised layouts aren’t much different from yours, other than using concrete blocks and fill dirt instead of benchwork. Also, GR has published some indoor large scale layouts.

As for the Gazette, they’ve published articles on all kinds of layouts including outdoor layouts.

#14

Richard,

I have to agree with your decenters. I feel your railroad would be excellant for either Garden Railways or the Gazette. If it would be true that they would not publish your railroad, then I think we may have just found the answer of their limited circulations and decreasing readerships. However, I really think there are other answers.
:wink:

#15

Richard - I would like to think that the UK-based ‘Garden Rail’ would publish your layout, just to show what really can be done with skill and determination, and provide another insight into yet another aspect of the great hobby we all share.

tac

#16

I just look at the pictures :stuck_out_tongue: