The wife took this while I was running the four trains. One train for each dog. They love to get up on the chair and peer through the trainroom door and watch.
Dave, I think I had the main line up and running in 2007. I would come home from work, a 20 hour day would not be uncommon, a glass of wine while watching my one loco pull a short train round and round would take the edge off, made better by my kids climbing up in my lap. Therapy is right.
I don’t mind procrastinating on a bathroom remodel, my trouble is when I make plans to work on the layout, I go into the trainroom, and the “on” switch beckons. I have a hard time resisting the call.[(-D] Who needs groundcover anyway. [C):-)]
Those Rapido Hudsons can really pull. My BLI 2-10-4 is a real good puller and the Hudsons are every bit as good. I am hoping the Rapido 10 wheelers due in the fall perform to the same high standards as I have ordered two.
This little guy from Rapido surprised me with its might. I was experimenting by adding cars. When it reached its max there was no will it or won’t it, it just didn’t but did without hesitation when that one car too many was removed. I was impressed by what it did.
If you take blood thinners, and quite a few of us are at the age where we do, DO NOT JUGGLE CATS!
My layout could pretty easily run three trains, one in the subway loop by itself, and two could chase each other’s tails upstairs with only the occasional speed adjustment. I could still do some switching with a fourth train. But, running those trains in opposite directions, using passing sidings to fullest advantage, took all my concentration. And that’s before there were any cats around.
I meant to say wrangling cats, I was too tired at the time to think of what I really meant to say. [zzz][(-D]
I must admit once I got the speed set there was not a conflict between any of the trains. The day before the video I ran them for over two hours at a faster speed, sound off, stereo on as I had relayed some track and turnouts for the first time in 15 years. No issues so I guess it passed the test.
The little 4-4-0 train in the video, I almost always have plying the layout when I am working on it. There have been times it has run none stop for a good eight hours or so. I just have to remember it comes by every five or six minutes, kind of like what real MOW crews have to do.[(-D]
Who remembers that commercial on the Superbowl? It was back in the era of commercials that had nothing to do with the product. It was when people started watching just for the ads. They were that good. Herding Cats was one of the best.
