funnelfan
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Brent Strong hosted a busy little operating session on his BN Allen Sub layout. The layout is based on a fictional east-west mainline of the BN in Washington state that connects the ports and forested regions west of the Cascades to the rolling wheat fields and transcon mainlines east of the Cascades. The operating sessions are fairly informal and held when enough people can be gathered for such a session. Car forwarding is based on a car-card system. And the layout is operated with a MRC DCC system. So lets get started.
1. In addition to being the company photographer this day, I was also the Allen Yard Yardmaster, the central classification point on the layout. My reliable P2K SD9 is a dependable workhorse that glides through the maze turnouts and crossovers and can pull anything that I ask of it.
2. The hot Fruit express (Q-FLDCAS) hustles the produce through East Allen. This train rates a hefty amount of horsepower compared to most trains on the layout. The train switches a large cold Storage Facility in the Columbia Basin before heading west. It drops some cars at the port and then heads south to deliver it's load of Washington State apples and other groceries to California via the SP.
3. Another SP connecting train using pool power was on the Fruit Block's tail. This train is a railfan favorite since it regulary hosts SP power in this BN stronghold.
4. A coal train goes about it's duties trading loads for empties at the large coal fired power plant at Evan Gap. The coal comes from the Jacobson Branch mine, another on-line customer.
1. In addition to being the company photographer this day, I was also the Allen Yard Yardmaster, the central classification point on the layout. My reliable P2K SD9 is a dependable workhorse that glides through the maze turnouts and crossovers and can pull anything that I ask of it.
2. The hot Fruit express (Q-FLDCAS) hustles the produce through East Allen. This train rates a hefty amount of horsepower compared to most trains on the layout. The train switches a large cold Storage Facility in the Columbia Basin before heading west. It drops some cars at the port and then heads south to deliver it's load of Washington State apples and other groceries to California via the SP.
3. Another SP connecting train using pool power was on the Fruit Block's tail. This train is a railfan favorite since it regulary hosts SP power in this BN stronghold.
4. A coal train goes about it's duties trading loads for empties at the large coal fired power plant at Evan Gap. The coal comes from the Jacobson Branch mine, another on-line customer.