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Scooby, Enjoy the time that you do have with your son. My prayers are with you and your family.

When I was young I lived beside the AD&N tracks in Fountain Hill, Arkansas.

DESIGNING LAYOUTS TO OPERATE http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/~smithbf/BFSpages/LDSIGprimer/Operations.html

Congratulations, Paul. Well deserved!

Jon, That is basically what I did. Phase I of my AD&N is the Georgia-Pacific Mill complex at Crossett, Arkansas. http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=2&s=12&x=745&y=4584&z=15&w=2 On the left side you can also use the drop down box to swap from topo map to aerial photo.

Look at this page: http://users.iafrica.com/c/ca/caroper/tutorial/ Scroll down and look at Compact Track Plan: http://users.iafrica.com/c/ca/caroper/tutorial/compact.htm There is lots of operations and switching to be had from this small plan.

Thanks!:cool:

Excellent points, Jack. I don't know anyone where I live that does operations on their layouts. I'm sure there are some but all of the folks I know just run trains. Everything I know (admittedly little) has been learned from books and on-line reading. I have just gotten my pike to the...

Paul, Would you please copy the post about your system an set it up in a topic here so that we have all of the ops info in one forum? You give an excellent explanation of your system. I will definitely be incorporating elements of it as ops on my pike evolve and mature. I had saved a...

Phase I of my layout is my attempt at representing this: This complex contains almost 22 miles of yards and industrial trackage.

Track Planning for Realistic Operation Third Edition By John Armstrong - 1998 - Kalmbach Publishing. ISBN 0-89024-227-5 Section I 1 - Loading and unloading products and passengers 2 - Assembling cars into trains 3 - Moving trains over the railroad 4 - Specialized trackage...

The Complete Handbook of Model Railroad Operations by Paul Mallery - Mine is a First Printing hardback from 1979 - TAB Books ISBN 0-8306-9894-9 = hardback ISBN 0-8306-1021-9 = paperback Also another out of print classic. I understand that there is a different version out there by a...

How to Operate your Model Railroad by Bruce A. Chubb - 1977 - Kalmbach Books ISBN - 0-89024-528-2 A classic, out of print but can be found if you look. Try Ebay or Amazon used books. 14 Chapters 1 - The basics of railroad operation 2 - Purpose & layouts 3 - Your host: the...

The Operations SIG Focuses on Realistic Prototypical Operation Scroll down to the Operations Primer. http://www.opsig.org/

Operational Considerations/Questions When setting up operations on your layout, there are several things that must be considered. How you answer these questions greatly affects the operations and operational setting of your layout. When you start thinking about these things, it can seem...

I'm definitely glad to see this forum open. I'm sure that there will be many interesting topics here.

Outstanding, Paul.

Paul, I understand your point. The two tracks by the chemical plant are on either side of the soon to be built loading rack for tank cars. The top track by the paper mill is the track where chemical tankers and hoppers are delivered to the mill. The paper mill is actually representing...

I have actually achieved my first objective. :cool: I finished the mill spurs this past weekend and I had my first operation session on the AD&N last night. Just solo switching the yards & the mills. It is a lot more complex to do well than I thought it would be. I used about 20 cars with...

Well, here is the current design of Phase I of the Ashley, Drew and Northern in N Scale. As you can see, it has changed some from the original design above. As I actually got track down and continued to research the AD&N, I saw things that needed fixing. All track is laid and operational...