Doodlebug The Doodlebug is mak- ing its morning com- muter run on the branch line delivering workers to Wolf Hollow Mine #1. The mine switcher is busy pull a cut of hop- pers from the mine for the first coal train of the morning.


Swisher Creek The thunder of the waterfall is replaced by the rumble of a Baldwin RF-16 pulling a westbound freight train across Swisher Creek. With two anglers casting a line under the bridge, it must be a pretty good fishing spot. The water- fall was made using clear caulk, and the water is tinted two-part epoxy.


ited space between the tracks and the backdrop.


Operations


From Day 1, realistic opera- tions for ten or more was a goal for the layout. I’m a member of a weekly rotating group of oper- ations-focused modelers, and a typical operating session is three


hours. I host an operating session about once a month and use 28 different locomotives during the session. The engine terminal hos- tler job is definitely a busy one! A yardmaster, passenger termi- nal yardmaster, industrial area switcher, branch switcher, and tower operator (for sequencing in and out of the very busy yard and


engine terminal areas) are desig- nated at the beginning of each ses- sion. Everyone else forms a rotat- ing pool of line engineers for the next available train. While 10-12 is an optimum number of partici- pants, I’ve had as many as 15 op- erators. We typically run two unit coal trains, three passenger, three through freights, a branch freight,


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