Peninsula construction!
A regular report on the construction
of a 1950s-something layout
A
ugust 13, 2011 was the date of the most recent BC&SJ
op session. That is, it was until now. With the comple-
tion (well near-completion – the turntable is still inop-
erable) of the new, improved, and hopefully final South Jackson
yard, the railroad was again ready to run on February 9th. A crew
call yielded 13 eager operators and around 7:30 p.m. the first
trains made their way out of staging and onto the layout proper.
Amazingly, things worked pretty well, especially considering the
layout had been idle for 1-1/2 years since the previous session.
Because there was a considerable amount of tested but untried
track in South Jackson and the main staging area, I elected to keep
things on the simple side. The track schematic hadn't changed
– the railroad got longer, so we re-ran the previous train lineup.
Instead of a fast clock, dispatcher, radio headsets, and TWC (track
warrant control), we used mother-may-I dispatching to launch
trains, and smoke signals to prevent unfortunate incidents on the
mainline (cornfield meets).
Up the Creek column
by Charlie Comstock
The Bear Creek and South Jackson is
running again!
Up the Creek Column - 1
MRH-Mar 2013
