The October operating session was host to a visiting photographer, the (in)famous Wayland Moore, aka O. Missing Link, late of the marketing department of the Western Maryland Moseley Division, and other railroads.
Here is a selection of these prime compositions, for the reader's enjoyment.
Please contain your shock and surprise. As part of the rebuild of XR, structures were to be installed.
Here is a pair of teaser photos for Taylor and Sledd food distribution warehouse.
Fitting sessions around other model railroad events can be a challenge in the fall, as September usually hosts the Mid Atlantic Railroad Prototype Modelers meet (https://www.marpm.org/), and October sees the NMRA's Mid Eastern Region (MER) annual convention, so we had to slide around from our normal 2nd Sunday window.
I have started to sign up an extra operator, as I usually have a late cancellation, and trying to manage an extra board seems to be an exercise in frustration. For this session, this strategy worked out well, as I had 1 no show, but with my extra operator already signed up, we had a full crew.
The yard looks busy in this shot - lots of trains and operators.
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| Yard Assistant Dan M seems to be contemplating his life choices as he switches the south end of Acca. |
We did uncover an interesting signal aspect failure during the session when a passenger train went around a southbound freight, and used the GN interlocking to reach the Track 4 passenger platform. The signal on Track 3 SB at GN didn't stay red after the varnish had made it over the mainline crossover. Whoops. This ended up being a missing check in the logic, and has since been fixed.
More photos on richmond-terminal.org
