02-20-2010, 02:02 PM
I still haven't wired up the track for the warehouse district and for the barge terminal scene - but I have had fun running trains with my kids being the engineer and me being the conductor. They are getting pretty decent at switching - being gentle with the throttle, and understanding how far forward they have to pull before I can throw switches and they can back into a yard track to drop off or pick up cars.
I watch the turnouts and do the uncoupling. Works great. We ran for about an hour and a half this afternoon, most of the time with my youngest kid (age 8) on the throttle, with a blissful grin on his face. He doesn't try to derail the train or run it super fast - he is having fun running it at a moderate speed, and backing into sidings and stuff like that. Looks promising :-)
I'll try to get a little more done on the layout tomorrow.
Grin,
Stein
I watch the turnouts and do the uncoupling. Works great. We ran for about an hour and a half this afternoon, most of the time with my youngest kid (age 8) on the throttle, with a blissful grin on his face. He doesn't try to derail the train or run it super fast - he is having fun running it at a moderate speed, and backing into sidings and stuff like that. Looks promising :-)
I'll try to get a little more done on the layout tomorrow.
Grin,
Stein