Had a strange sort of Operating Day on Thursday. 4 guys were supposed to come but in the end due to Sickness, Work and a Hospital Collection only 1 turned up from Middlesborough way with his Dog. So the 3 Train Timetable that I have was straight away in problems. In cases like this I normally put a Railcar out on one of the Turns as I can usually manage a second Turn if it is a Railcar. But I have not run either for a while so that plan failed. In the end we just ran the two turns. If only the Dog could have helped.
So after Coffee and Cake and a quick briefing for my 1 Operator we got to running Trains. Normal plan is to run to around 1300 have some Lunch and get to the end of the Timetable to let the guys go home after it has finished with generally a quick run with a Live Steam Loco.
Well a new Operator has a lot to take in with Wagon Cards, strange Continetal Stations, DCC, Shunting, Passing Trains on Single Line and all while trying to manage a Cliboard, Handset and Uncoupling device. Needless to say the Timetable never got completed so all the Stock was quicly run into the Shed around Halfway through the Timetable. Loco's brought indoors and we departed for the Station for man and his Dogs trip home oop North.
Have to say that the following is in no way a detrimant to my Operator, just the way things turned out. So yesterday Morning Weather being fine I elected to get things back to normal state as I have another Operating Day soon. This is how things ended up in the Wooden Shed.
The Road closest has the Diesel hemmed in by 2 Milk/Mail Wagons. Centre Road has a Passenget Train (Red Working) that was heading to Harzegerode just behind me. Far Road with the Railcar has the Loaded Grevel Train (Green Working) that was just about to depart Silberhutte in the Garden for Stiege which is just below this baseboard. It was deemed best to run the Railcar out (I remembered the DCC Number) to assist in sorting things out. It has 2 Whizzy Crank Bogies so can pull a good load.
The Railcar was usd to pull the 3 Coaches out into the Garden so that the Diesel could use the Centre Road and thus make preparations to move the Goods Stock out into the Garden. Part of this allowed the Milk/Mail cars to be dumped in the Centre Road for the Railcar to attach. Seen below.
Having somehow got all 3 Milk/Mail vans gathered together the Railcar headed off to Gernrode. Leaving the Diesel to collect the remaining Wagons behind the Coach in the Pic Below. A second run to Silberhutte would be required to clear out the Coach and Gravel Train.
Finally Alexisbad returns to its No Train status, but some indications of a less than normal situation are still seen. The Bogie Open in the foreground was en route to Stiege below so will have to wait for the Next Timetable Session. As are the Open and Van in the distance to the right. But the Wagon Cards will take care of this. The two vans in the Goods Shed Road had no orders so are where they should be.
Silberhutte with all the Stock distributed in the Yard. The Gravel Train is in the Centre Road waiting to run round to Stiege (it overnights in the Low Level Yard). Normally the Timetable starts up with the Fuel Train in Silberhutte so some work still to do.
The Railcar and 3 Mail/Milk vans returning to Gernrode having just left Magdesprung.
The Scene at Gernrode, two lonely Milk/Mail vans sit in the 3rd Road with a selection of Wagons by the wall. Red coach in the distance is the Coach from the Green Working which had somehow managed to make its way home with a Locomotive the day before.
Once the Railcar artived much shunting was carried out ro get everything back in shape.
This little scenario took around 1 and a half hours of enjoyable fun Train Running. All done to prototype practice and in an unhurried way.
After this I managed to work out a 2 person Timetable so spent the next two hours doing a 1 man run through. In the course of that I managed to get the Fuel and Gravel Trains back into their Overnight situations. So all is now well with the Dunhyreichesbahn.
JonD
So after Coffee and Cake and a quick briefing for my 1 Operator we got to running Trains. Normal plan is to run to around 1300 have some Lunch and get to the end of the Timetable to let the guys go home after it has finished with generally a quick run with a Live Steam Loco.
Well a new Operator has a lot to take in with Wagon Cards, strange Continetal Stations, DCC, Shunting, Passing Trains on Single Line and all while trying to manage a Cliboard, Handset and Uncoupling device. Needless to say the Timetable never got completed so all the Stock was quicly run into the Shed around Halfway through the Timetable. Loco's brought indoors and we departed for the Station for man and his Dogs trip home oop North.
Have to say that the following is in no way a detrimant to my Operator, just the way things turned out. So yesterday Morning Weather being fine I elected to get things back to normal state as I have another Operating Day soon. This is how things ended up in the Wooden Shed.
The Road closest has the Diesel hemmed in by 2 Milk/Mail Wagons. Centre Road has a Passenget Train (Red Working) that was heading to Harzegerode just behind me. Far Road with the Railcar has the Loaded Grevel Train (Green Working) that was just about to depart Silberhutte in the Garden for Stiege which is just below this baseboard. It was deemed best to run the Railcar out (I remembered the DCC Number) to assist in sorting things out. It has 2 Whizzy Crank Bogies so can pull a good load.
The Railcar was usd to pull the 3 Coaches out into the Garden so that the Diesel could use the Centre Road and thus make preparations to move the Goods Stock out into the Garden. Part of this allowed the Milk/Mail cars to be dumped in the Centre Road for the Railcar to attach. Seen below.
Having somehow got all 3 Milk/Mail vans gathered together the Railcar headed off to Gernrode. Leaving the Diesel to collect the remaining Wagons behind the Coach in the Pic Below. A second run to Silberhutte would be required to clear out the Coach and Gravel Train.
Finally Alexisbad returns to its No Train status, but some indications of a less than normal situation are still seen. The Bogie Open in the foreground was en route to Stiege below so will have to wait for the Next Timetable Session. As are the Open and Van in the distance to the right. But the Wagon Cards will take care of this. The two vans in the Goods Shed Road had no orders so are where they should be.
Silberhutte with all the Stock distributed in the Yard. The Gravel Train is in the Centre Road waiting to run round to Stiege (it overnights in the Low Level Yard). Normally the Timetable starts up with the Fuel Train in Silberhutte so some work still to do.
The Railcar and 3 Mail/Milk vans returning to Gernrode having just left Magdesprung.
The Scene at Gernrode, two lonely Milk/Mail vans sit in the 3rd Road with a selection of Wagons by the wall. Red coach in the distance is the Coach from the Green Working which had somehow managed to make its way home with a Locomotive the day before.
Once the Railcar artived much shunting was carried out ro get everything back in shape.
This little scenario took around 1 and a half hours of enjoyable fun Train Running. All done to prototype practice and in an unhurried way.
After this I managed to work out a 2 person Timetable so spent the next two hours doing a 1 man run through. In the course of that I managed to get the Fuel and Gravel Trains back into their Overnight situations. So all is now well with the Dunhyreichesbahn.
JonD
the electric stuff is bad enough for the wallet 
) is part of the fun!