10-16-2014, 05:20 AM
Quote:i don't know what you are interested in model train operations
I am not interested in careful prototype operations. Prototype operations of sending the same cars to the same industries every operation session is boring to me -- I'll lose interest in it quickly. Add in a time schedule and it feels way too much like work.
What I like are railway shunting puzzles and continuous operations. I work with randomized consists with dice rolls, so operation is different and building trains is mentally challenging.
The branchline is an inglenook siding, where a switcher or GP will build a 5 car train randomly out of 8 cars, and deliver them randomly to the 5 industries at the other end of the branch, a busy industrial park, basically changing my existing 30x54 layout into a point to point. The main yard will be for building long through freights and passenger runs for stress-relief continuous running.
When I hear the iron horse make the hills echo with his snort like thunder, shaking the earth with his feet, and breathing fire and smoke from his nostrils, it seems as if the earth had got a race now worthy to inhabit it.
-- Henry David Thoreau
-- Henry David Thoreau