Hi Guys,
Several of us have been discussing having realistic railroad Operating
Sessions for quite a while now. We finally started the process by
teaming up and "learning by doing." We built several operating
scenarios on my Overland Pacific Railway. Yesterday, Sunday, Jun
6.
Thanks go to Rick, Ricky, Mike, David and Dave. We did a
lot of hard work building operating scenarios -- and had a lot of fun,
too.
We were hard at it from 1 pm to 8 pm! I mean hard at
it. For example, operating on a Four to One Fast Clock the
Valley Local took David and crew a full 8 hour shift (4 to 1 fast clock, 2
hours real-time) from start to finish. He and his crew were busy
every second of the time!
Looking ahead.
We unanimously agreed that as soon as we feel ready (after a few
more "learning by doing" sessions) we'll invite all Club
members -- with an interest in realistic operations -- to join
us.
And we're hopeful that we can also have Operating Sessions on
Steve Wise's layout when he's ready and available. Maybe others'
layouts, too?
Once we go public we envision averaging at least one operating session a
month. Maybe more. We agreed to schedule them so they
don't conflict with the Club's "official" events. Maybe the
sessions will make it on to the club calendar. That'll be up to the
members and the Board after we get going.
Stay tuned!
Bill