Yes, Ben, you should have!
Would have been groovy to meet you, and the Bay Area Z scalers' layout is worth the price of admission I think
Mark: The trip from one loop to the other took between 10-40 minutes, depending on who was derailed or bottlenecking ahead of you
Funny thing: now we have many passing sidings and yard space and whatnot, yet
all the trains seem to show up at the exact same spot
all the time!
Then some people would park a train on a passing siding and wander off to check out the vendors or stop their train while talking to people or not pay attention to who's coming at them down the line...
Needless to say, we've started talking about signals, dispatching and an ops plan
Here's a few photos and the video:
The quarry on the inside of the Wye Knot module:
Nils' 12'-long woodmill module:
The mill building itself is a mock-up stand in.
Nils scratched the woodchip loader, storage shed and all the wrapped lumber stacks.
The Davenport Cement plant will be on another 12' module (two 6' sections) at the far end of this one, starting right where that little grey coal shed and conveyor is at the end.
Prepare for pure awesomeness when it's all together and Nils works more of his mad modeling magic!
We learned a lot this show, like don't put Steve's Lockhart, TX module next to Effett Yard:
With so much traffic coming through Effett it was nearly impossible to switch the industries at Lockhart.
If we had just flipped Lockhart around it would have been fine!
[There are two Asshats in that photo, one from who suprised us by showing up from Canada via Mexico! Crazy!]
And here's the video.
It just took FOUR HOURS to upload and "process" on YouTube.
The video is 13 minutes at 1080p, and it looks very good on a full, wide screen.
Grab some popcorn and a cold one and enjoy.
Thanks for looking.
