I just watched the 100th episode of Cody’s Office and ‘cute’ would be a good word. David Popp had the best line - ‘down boy’ - and Tony Koester got the biggest laugh.
Take a look.
I agree, it was very funny.
Knowing Tony and the need for brevity, I’d bet something like 97% of the interview was edited out.
Mark
Cody at his best - a joy to watch. It is very refreshing for me to watch this young guy sharing the week´s model railroading news with us. Even more important, as this hobby turns more and more into an old fart´s pastime - just like I am one.
I have not missed a show yet … Great show … hope Cody and the boys have 100 more [bow] …
As much as I hate to say it, I have missed the past 8 or so episodes, because we had to get our computer repaired after it crashed perminantly. Ever since we got it back, we are still having problems. The biggest one is that we can’t get sound, so I can see Cody’s Office, but I can’t hear what Cody has to say. I think if I don’t get releaf soon, I may just explode! I can’t get enough.
I was amused by the 100th installment of Cody’s Office, but it was Tony K’s comments that really caught my attention.
Now I’m a great fan of operations and participate in group operating sessions on a large layout monthly, but Tony’s method of operations now seems to me to be going over the top. While he insists it’s “model railroading”, to me it seems a lot more like “realistic railroad management and office work”. From his description, I get the impression that it involves more time expended by the group in doing the paper work and communicating between “departments” than is devoted in actually operating the trains on “operations night”. To each his own, I supposed, but…
I’d be interested to hear how other hobbyists look upon Tony’s current approach and if anyone else goes to such absolute extremes.
CNJ831
I respect Tony’s opinions, especially when it comes to operations.
Whether you like his ideas or not depends on how far into operations you are. I’m not at the car card or timetable operations stage yet, and I don’t know if I’ll ever get there. I enjoyed building my little layout and I’m looking forward to building a larger layout soon.
The principal existance of my layout is to have fun building it and then running trains on it. I strive for a sense of realism, but haven’t gone overboard on it. Three foot rule applies on my layout! Since the current layout is small and roundy-round, there isn’t much in the way of operations. The larger layout will be oriented more towards operations, but not nearly prototypical.
In my opinion, Tony built his layout to perform operations with a crew of people. The construction, realism and detail work may just be a bonus to Tony, as I think he would get nearly as much enjoyment running operations on a plywood central layout, as long as the operations were prototypical.
The perils of dial up! I haven’t been able to see any of them. Son keeps saying he is going to get us hooked up for satalite, but whenever the weather decides to make good working on train time, (lousey weather to work outside) his satalite can’t function through the clouds, so still not available. Sigh! Maybe someday!!
The other day I downloaded a 6:23 video, left the computer going while I did other things, did other things, did other things. Finally after some 5 hours it finished. Whew! Saved it, like I had been taught. Went to view it, started to load at the same snails pace. Found out I could only save the “shortcut,” not the video from that source. Guess I’ll have to go to his house on a nice day to view such things.
Wonder if I should put satalite service as a MRR expense?
Have fun,
I actually have been thinking of how to work an operating session where the trains are scheduled but the contents are not. The dispatcher tells the yardmaster what cars to put in the train, while he writes up a switch list for the operators. The thing I couldn’t figure out was how would the dispatcher know what cars in what towns were ready for pickup.
One (silly) idea I had was to buy all the waybills for the cars, and put them in containers on the wall which were positioned on a giant schematic of the railroad. The dispatcher was to move the cards around to know where the cars were. I was thinking deeply on this matter.
When I heard Tony’s idea, I nearly screamed in a Eureka! moment. If I position a clerk at a town, he can work with some undecided (as of now) paperwork and then call the dispatcher saying that on the next available train, something should be picked up or dropped off. I like Ton
So, who was supposed to have been on the phone with Cody?
Kevin
Did you happen to catch that wardrobe credit?
Cody’s hat by Sperandeo !!! [bow]