railroad and other Mid-Cental Division 4 members’ railroads, he asked when “operations” would begin on the GCRY. Fortunately, Harold Taylor, another Di- vision 4 member that had invited us over for operations on his railroad, tu- tored us in setting up a car card system. Thus began the first years of opera- tions on the GCRY with d.c. control and block operation. Our fellow model- ers were patient and fault tolerant op- erators. Throttles were all built from scratch: two from the SST-7 articles that appeared in RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN, one from Model Railroad- er’s “Throttle for all seasons,” and one other transistorized throttle. Given that the GCRY was never de-
The Gold Creek layout features a mix of traction and mainline railroading. YVTL freight motor No. 56 struggles up the curving trestle to the high end loop to perform some switching (page 62), while GCRY No. 286 (above) navigates the yard trackage at the east end of Gold Creek yard. Steeple cab No. 20 (below) moves a boxcar into position by the Valley Grain Browers elevator. The steeple cab is a Red Ball (Model Railroad Warehouse) kit with a Tenshodo under-floor drive. The grain elevator was built from a Campbell kit.
signed for any particular operating scheme, operations were carried out sat- isfactorily for around five operators. We soon realized that operating with blocks would not be sustainable in the long run.
A Digitrax digital Command Control system was installed around 2007. In addition we realized the need to have two more operating positions and elimi- nate the position of the staging yard op-
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