An employee timetable and operating manual for a prototype based model railroad
By | October 3, 2018Get operating paperwork from Ian Stronach's HO scale Canadian Pacific Ry. Montreal Terminals Division featured in Great Model Railroads 2019
Get operating paperwork from Ian Stronach's HO scale Canadian Pacific Ry. Montreal Terminals Division featured in Great Model Railroads 2019
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Ian- I have many questions about your great railroad and it’s operation.
What does your staging footprint actually look like and how did you fit it in the limited space? Radius ?
How do you uncouple in seemingly unreachable areas such portions of St Luc Yard?
Does all your documentation stay the same for all three ops sessions A, B, and C except for switch list car type, mark, and number? Do I perhaps have a major misunderstanding of how your system works?
I have a layout about four times the size, about 350 cars. three railroads- CNW, MILW, CB&Q, three sizeable yards, three active interchanges, 90% completion, about 50+ industry’s served, decent staging, monthly ops for 8 to 14 folks, lots of maintenance …. I’m hitting my mid 70’s and I’m worn out. I’ve used 4 cycle car cards for 12 years and put in hundreds of hours with JMRI ops software before giving up. (Too many moving parts)
I want what you have. Do it once, do it well, and then relax and just let it run. I am in awe of all you have accomplished.
Is there a better way I might communicate with to discuss details concerning setting up similar ops.
Writing you all from the Florida panhandle, just north of Pensacola. Sorry about your winter weather.
Dan Hayden 850-261-6504
PS. I’ve downloaded and studied all your related PDF files. Superb.
Well done. I am in process of developing operating manual and time table for my layout and I can use much of what is shown in these documents.