Excellent video and explanation of an active staging concept. I have a small layout that is one town but will refine my expansion plans of an additional run to include expanding my current staging to include a few more tracks for representing additional key city locations on the South Shore Line I model. Very simple and effective way to have much larger operations on a small layout. Thanks!! Scott
As Trainmaster, I'd just get back in my car and leave without bothering your crew. Good job. BTW, be sure to report that broken switch target to the yardmaster, will ya. It's such a pleasure to watch movements like this. Just think, not so many years ago, without DCC and sound and acceleration and deceleration and drive hold and that wonderful controller, this just couldn't happen.
Thanks! The best way to keep track clean is to run the trains as often as you can. But when the do get some oxidation I’ll use the Woodland Scenics rubber track eraser to spot clean and I use a product called ACT -6006 Track and Rail Cleaner applied to a small piece of cork roadbed. I also use the stuff to clean the wheels on the locomotives using it on a paper towel.
nice vid tim... i did notice the way you numbered some of your locos... the 151 and the 153... GP15 and a MP15 same number series but two very different loco types... what criteria did you use to come up with how your number your locos
The Seaboard Central is my fictional freelanced model railroad that is based off a Class 2 regional railroad which operates in Alabama and Georgia during the summer of 2015.
Thank you for explaining this part of the operation. What is the correct speed for 153 & 151 as they are moving through the yard? At what speed do they couple to the cars?
The maximum speed on yard tracks is 10 mph. I try to couple to the cars around 2.5 mph but it doesn’t always work out that way. On my ProtoThrottle I have notch one programmed to 2.5 mph. Notch 2 is 5 mph, notch 3 is 8 mph and notch 4 is 10 mph.
Thank you. I watch some modelers slam into sitting cars moving them 1/2 to a full car length. I would think that the engineer has been thrown clear across the cab.
Is the link between Gadsden and Ragland via the helix scheduled for this year or not till next? That will really expand operations capabilities. Plus perhaps a couple of dummy origin/destination tracks off the upper end of the helix as staging to and from Gadsden.
