Comments on: How To Make Model Railroading More Interesting https://blog.model-train-help.com/2014/12/how-to-make-model-railroading-more-interesting.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-make-model-railroading-more-interesting Model railroads and model trains Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Alan roberts https://blog.model-train-help.com/2014/12/how-to-make-model-railroading-more-interesting.html#comment-8252 Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:29:01 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=3377#comment-8252 The days of the week on the ‘ operation’ card relates to the day you are actually running the trains
It just means you have variations each time.
Alan

]]> By: Neville Parry https://blog.model-train-help.com/2014/12/how-to-make-model-railroading-more-interesting.html#comment-8235 Tue, 16 Dec 2014 15:18:13 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=3377#comment-8235 Now Alan is starting to get into a very interesting aspect of the hobby – called OPERATION.

Over the pond, many of us are blessed with larger basements under our houses, which our wives allow us to fill with a model railway (model railroad). Some of these allow a larger section of a prototype line to be modelled. For one or tow of these, google “Tony Koester’ or “Alan Mclelland”. you may be able to pull up a post that will describe layouts that are intended for ‘operation’. Don’t be discouraged because of the size of these layouts.

However, I would suggest that operation is probably much more interesting with a terminus-fiddle yard than an oval, which is better suited to exhibition running.

]]> By: Don Jennings https://blog.model-train-help.com/2014/12/how-to-make-model-railroading-more-interesting.html#comment-8234 Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:55:49 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=3377#comment-8234 How To Make Model Railroading More Interesting Give each town or switching area with sidings, a name. Then fill out car cards for each piece of rolling stock. Next write down where each type of rolling stock might have a place to either pick up or deliver a goods to. All of this should keep you busy for a while. Come back again when that is done for more information and WE can go from there.
Now you are starting to do operation rather then “circle burning the layout which can be tiresome and boring.
Good luck to you. You are trying and that is good on your part.

]]> By: Han de Roos https://blog.model-train-help.com/2014/12/how-to-make-model-railroading-more-interesting.html#comment-8233 Tue, 16 Dec 2014 10:11:20 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=3377#comment-8233 You didnt mention why you wrote the days of the week on the lh side of the cards? I use more or less the same system also a fy where I assembke the teajns

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