Forum: Operations

Hey fellas, good to see you all again. Been out of the hobby for a while thanks to my yard and the nice weather this last fall. Since the grass is...

On my travels around the Model Train Internet forums I've read many discussions about the best way to operate your industry spurs, Defined as a...

Now that I have made the jump to DCC what I would like to do is automate a small portion of the layout. For simplicity sake let's assume that it's a...

The current issue of the MR Newsletter contains the “free” article: Frank Ellison's "The Art of Model Railroading" This link provides second link...

The current issue of the MR Newsletter contains the “free” article: Freight station operations. The article provides some interesting tips about...

just some random thoughts of mine looking for some random input from y'all.... i was at a friends house helping with an op session this past...

I'm not new to n scale, i have had several n scale layouts operations based, but.....I have a Basic question! My previous rolling stock all had...

The current issue of the MR Newsletter contains the “free” article: Simplified Car Routing. While the article is about an HO layout, it would seem...

I'm sure I've just "invented" something that others have been doing for years, but here's the easy game I whipped up for the kids. My layout right...

Does anyone run a lot of MOW stock. Running a commuter railway has come to mean that all my stock beyond passenger cars is MOW related and mainly I...

Hi, I'm posting this diagram so that folks might get some ideas for some track configurations that can lead to "Operating Satisfaction" (see John...

but no rolling stock, motive power, track, structures, etc. I would certainly participate if I had something to give. Neat idea,PS I would love to...

The current issue of the MR Newsletter contains the “free” article: Add an RIP track for running repairs. The article is non-scale specific and...

I have a yard planned for my layout, and I'd like to put, on a separate siding within the yard, a couple of tracks for locomotive servicing - fuel,...

First day of operation on the Lancaster & Reading RR. Train STYBT (unit coal train) ran southbound past the headquarters at Lancaster at 3:37 pm...

What era are you modeling? What type of layout, switching, main line, branch? How many locomotives do you want on the layout? How many do you want to...

I looked at the virtual operations groups on Yahoo. I am hesitant to join a group where the intro group is page after page of spam. (just cautious,...

For years I have seen the prototypes and modelers hooking up multiple locos with some of them running backward. I also noted several DCC users...

Hey all, I've lost my copy of Model Railroader April 2001 and was hoping someone could either post or PM me the the sequential train list provided...

Is it called an Interchange yard????

Or, you could use one of the several free scale speed calculators available... As an example; http://www.mcr5.org/NMRA/articals/speed.htm Nice...

Great find!Thanks for the link.