Commute-tastic!

A surprisingly interesting part of operations at Exeter was fitting in a service of short, fast passenger trains amidst the long slow freights, in our 70’s mode at Exeter we had Amtrak and Chicago RTA (with CNW cars) bilevel push pulls, plus the Blackhawk RDC set.

So, the target now is to complete a modern equivalent. Unfortunately [...]

Show Images…

As well as the images already linked to on the RMWeb site (see previous post) here are a few more – if anyone else has images that we can use or link to then please leave me a comment and i’ll add a link in.
My handful of pics of the layout are now online at [...]

Show’s over, move along now…

There are a couple of pics of RS Tower in this thread on RMWeb, including a couple of Neil’s rather cool sound equipped SP RSD15’s. Pics are by one of the guys off the Matford layout (see link at the top of that thread for their layout) - the middle shot shows Santa Fe power (SD45+SD45+SD40) [...]

Blimey! The darn thing works!

 Well, it was getting dark in our corner of the hall as we were finishing off setting up, but just to prove that (a) the darn thing works and (b) long trains work here’s a quick vid I made just before going home. Power is an SD26 (Atlas), SD24 (Atlas) and SD45-2 (Genesis) lashup with a loooong train [...]