Been a little too long since I’ve posted anything here so I figured I would give a quick update as to the status of my efforts. I am still working on creating layout plans and operational schemes that I can get feedback on at the NMRA convention next week.
I’ve been starting with looking at the staging requirements for my layout under a couple various operation session plans
Plan 1 – 24 hour Operation Scheme
Plan 2 – 12 hour Operation Scheme, breaking the day into two segments
Plan 3 – 8 hour Operation Scheme
My overall goal is to create an operating session of approxiamelty 3 hours, so each of the plans would use a fast clock of some ratio. There were a total of 18 scheduled Freight Trains (10 Westbound, 8 Eastbound) down the line during the time period which I am looking at, 9 of which made stops along the route. And then there were the numerous local trains that transited parts of the line all adding up to a very busy stretch of railroad.
