As part of the briefing, I remind the crew to couple up to cars carefully and maintain control of your train.
HO scale cars are a bit more fragile than the real thing; after all, these are plastic cars, not metal.
No word on how the crew accomplished this:
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| On the RIP track in Acca |
From the June 2026 op session, for those curious.
The August 2026 Operating Session is in the books. I did take a few pictures, but as I am being on a bunch of other tasks, I am going to feature some photos from one of the operators, a famous auteur - Wayland .
The initial, pre session briefing:
A member of the crack team of operational specialists refers to this paperwork:
A very neat approach:
Whoops!
The debrief:
A bunch more photos can be found on the gallery.
July's operations were on the 2nd Sunday, as per normal.
This was the last session before the NMRA National Convention in Chattanooga, TN.
Didn't take too many pictures during this session so see the guest photos instead. :)
A few more shots at richmond-terminal.org.
Editor's Note: This is a fill in post as the blog is behind real time by months and months. This isn't to say that nothing is happening on the layout, as lots of stuff is happening, but actually documenting it is what is missing.
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| A string of RF&P boxcars rolls south behind a RF&P Geep. |
Even though I have a workbench in the staging room, I do a lot of work on the taller bench that is inside the layout room proper, as I can stand instead of sit. I do too much sitting during working hours, hence my desire to stand when I work on things for the layout.
