Jim:
Yes, we interchange with the Santa Fe at San Pablo where we
have to exchange the loco and caboose. I still run cabooses; to me
a train without a caboose is like a sentence without a period. We
also interchange with the Canadian National at Broadview and we
have the two branch lines, the Moose River Valley logging railroad,
and the Fergus Falls coal mining and quarry railroad.
Gustav:
Tell me about your control system.
Jim:
That's my least favorite aspect of model railroading. When I
first started building my layout, there was no command control.
Sure, there were a few DCC systems available but there was no
consistency, the systems weren't compatible with one another. If
you bought into a system and the owner kicked the bucket, you
were out of luck. It wasn't until the NMRA standardized DCC that I
felt comfortable getting into it.
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20: Great Northern F7 A&B 363 pass the Hillside
Tower interlocking.
