Car cards and waybills

A while back in a thread on operation on RM-Web the use of car cards and waybills came up, and that kicked off a thought process about how best to use them on an exhibition layout. Talking to the guys in the group and whilst some of us were okay moving given cars to an [...]

More Freightcars…

With RS Tower soaking up over 500 freightcars on average at a show, and with us running multiple era’s we’re always adding to the fleet, both to add the kind of unending variety that the real railroad offers, to tailor the fleet to the industries on the layout and to gradually upgrade the look and detail of the [...]

Post Andover photo’s – part 1

Well, the Andover show went pretty well, very few problems with the layout and it seemed very well received – many thanks to our extra operators for the weekend as well, you were a great help! Speaking of the extra operators, Gareth shot some photo’s at the end of play on Sunday and he’s gradually [...]

Just two weeks to Andover

We had a final work session this weekend in preparation for the Andover Show – click here for show details – i’ve uploaded a few photo’s from this weekend to the layout’s fotopic site to hopefully whet your appetites as well – hope to see some of you there.   Neil Rogers also has some photo’s on [...]

A little less conversation, a little more action…

Here’s another of our youtube clips, a SOO SD40-2 leads a CP Rail SD40-2 (in an SD45 carbody) north onto the street running with a unit steel coil train. Enjoy!

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. [...]

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 [...]

Keeping it chilled

Blackhawk Down

Also in the package with the Atlas cylindrical covered hopper yesterday were a pair of Proto 1000 RDC’s in Amtrak livery to add to the solitary one i’ve had in my fleet for a few years now (yep, that would be why one of the ones in these pictures is weathered and the other two aren’t!) [...]

Second time round

New arrival in the post today is one of the latest run of ACF Cylindrical covered hoppers from Atlas. The prototypes were built from 1961 to 1965 and so predate ACF’s iconic Center-Flo design, whilst they are far from the most common design of ‘large’ covered hopper there appear to have been enough built for them to [...]