Let's take a look at the area surrounding the wall on the east side of the railroad. There are 4 industries that are always worked on an operating session. Here's what it looked like after the last session:
Now here's a photo of what the yard looked like after the operating session:
Since I needed some relaxation on this rainy evening, I decided to have a little fun and work on re-staging the layout. The first area I attacked was the lumber yard. In addition, I needed some other freight cars for Cargill and a few other industries. I brought up a couple of trains, and both are at the ready to head to the freight yard.
Before they can get in, at least one move had to be made. I chose to go get the freight cars out of the lumber yard. A set of switchers were used to make the move.
These were brought back to staging, dropped off in the east ladder, and then other cars were sent back to the lumber yard.
Yes, a caboose was added to protect the upcoming shove at the lumber yard...
In order to make the move, the engine cut the freight cars off, and headed to the rear of the train to shove the cars into the siding at the lumber yard.
Once the cars were in the siding, the engines headed back to the yard to put away the other cars.
The freight cars are now on various tracks in the yard, so one of the trainsets from staging can be brought in. Once in the yard, i'll take the switchers to break them down and sort them for the next move...
With the train in the yard, we can work on it later. More than likely I will host the mid-month in December or the January sessions.
That's all for now!
The staging / re staging of a layout can certainly be time consuming. But it can also be a lot of fun to run the layout alone and just enjoy the rewards of all the hard work put into it.
ReplyDeleteNice look behind the scenes of the A.P.R.R. NJ Division!
How do you decide what cars go where? I do wonder if either a card system, computer system, or roll-the-dice system is used, don't the cars flow from one session to the next without re-staging?
ReplyDeleteIt all depends on the session John. More to follow via email...
DeleteI never thought about how much work there is to both resetting after an op and then staging for a new op. But as John said it seems these tasks would also be a lot of fun running the trains with a purpose vs just watching them run around. nice job.
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