Bob and NCE users, FYI: NCE has come out with an upgrade to their radio cabs that provides much better reception. My cabs now act as surely as if they are plugged in to the cab bus. If you check the NCE site, it provides info on how to get the upgrade installed for $25. All you need to do is mail in your cab: takes about a week .
Roger Nulton Tacoma, WA ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Werre To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 11:43 AM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Operations Question I will, after finishing my roundhouse and starting some decoder upgrades, get back to getting the RR back to operations. As I've mentioned before, I use the Rail Ops program which is quite common in this area. A friend came by to help me get started. He took one look at my yards and said 1/3 of my cars had to go. As a tear developed in my right eye, he refined that statement saying they had to go off the layout, on a car float (we don't use ferry in Texas) or to a new --unbuilt yard. Last weekend I operated on a very nicely designed HO layout twice the size of mine. We had nine operators working the various trains. The gentlemen owns 1400 freight cars indexed in his Rail Ops car roster. More than half are in a very large storage yard that are rotated into service as needed. During the evening most cars seemed to move once or twice during the 3-4 hour session. This layout had been on the Pro Rail tour that was hosted here a few months ago. So far every layout large or small seems to have trains that top out at about 20 cars. I'm not certain if that's due to time limits or length of sidings. If you have one or more large yards, chances are you have smaller yards where most of the switching of industries occurs. As a side note, when I was operating last weekend the owner had the NCE radio controlled throttles. I liked the ability to access an engine without plugging in the throttle (I understand that Digitrax is introducing their version now). The downside was that the engines often didn't respond to commands precisely (don't know how to explain that better but their were some issues with control). We also had one operator drop a throttle and it temporarily became three pieces but seemed to stay working after that. Now off to pack for Lowell! Bob Werre BobWphoto.com Greg Elems wrote: > Pieter, > > Captive service is a good example, we had a small fleet of ACF > covered hoppers running in and out of Sparks, not as often as example > but often enough I could recognize the same cars. > > As for 3-5 car should be enough, that shoots down my need a dozen > hoppers when the industry can only take one or two. VBG Large car > fleets shouldn't be a problem when we collect so much we talk about > storing them. > > Really how many cars are too many? I say we never have enough. LOL > > Greg Elems > Reno, NV > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
