Made a slight change in my track plan...

[rrinker]

Randy

Looks like you have a very unique space to work in, I am glad my walls are not like yours.
I have poked around your website a little and I am impressed with how organized your electronics are, not a rat nest in sight.

I do have a few questions...

1.) are you dead set on having continous running? If so why?
2.) What is the size of train you plan on running?
3.) What method of operations are you planning on simulating (CTC, TO, Yard limits)

I look forward to seeing some updates, both here and on your website!

1. Yes, I defintiely want a continuous run option. I am not what you'd call a "die hard" operator - sometimes I like to just let'em roll, or just run around and drop and pick up cars without being under a set schedule. Also I will be runnign this by myself most of the time. I am also not one of those types who rusn trains only twice a month - once to stage the layotu before an operating session and then at the operating session. This contributes to my slow building - once I have enough track down to do something I end up running trains as much as building when I walk into the room.
2. Train lengths are short - about 10 cars tops. Unless I just want to see something roll.
3. That's something I haven't found out yet - although the line was unsignaled so it probably was TO. That doesn't mean I might not go back and install a CTC system just because I like doing it. Trains servicing the branch in Reading days came out of Reading and went East to Alburtis and then up the branch, although there is also reference material with a train sent west from Allentown as well. Power was almost always an AS16 but that isn't goign to stop me from running RS3's and GP7's. Or my T-1's which almost certainly wouldn;t have been able to traverse the actual branch, and as far as I know never actually did.


--Randy