I called a crew together last Friday evening for our first operating session on the GC&SF for 2022. I am pleased to report that the layout operated very well, and everyone seemed to have had a good time.
This is the first time that I've used both my UR92 and UR93 radio devices together for a complete session. We had problems when I last tried to do that, and I disconnected the UR92 and used only the UR93. I think that the problem we had then was because the two devices were each operating on a different "Duplex Group ID". I've now set them both to "Duplex Group ID 1", and they seem to be playing well together. (Note that this is in addition to setting both UR devices to the same "Duplex Group Name" and "Duplex Group Channel".)
Here are some photos that Chris and I took during the session. Thank-you Chris for the photos. And thanks to all the guys for making the trip to my place.
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| It can get crowded in the aisle between Pauls valley (on the left) and Wynnewood. L-R: Brendan is cutting out cars from a northbound Fast freight; John (yardmaster at Pauls Valley) and Greg are discussing the cars that Greg has just brought into the yard after switching the town industries; Darren (background) is running the refinery train which is waiting for Graham to clear the siding at Wynnewood; and Graham is switching industries at Wynnewood. Photo by Chris Cochrane. |
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| Pauls Valley, with the refinery train sitting on the main and a northbound Fast freight on the arrival/departure track. Yardmaster John is just finishing working the rear of the Fast Freight that Brendan is running. Photo by Chris Cochrane. |
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| Tail end of the refinery train at Pauls Valley. The caboose is one of more than a dozen Atlas cabeese that I modified and painted more than 20 years ago. The chimney and end rails are Microtrains parts. Come on Atlas - It's time you brought this model up to modern standards. Photo by Chris Cochrane. |
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| Head end of the refinery train at Pauls Valley. Photo by Chris Cochrane. |
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| Graham with a local freight train, switching at Davis. Photo by Chris Cochrane. |
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| Brendan with a local freight arriving at Big Canyon. Photo by Chris Cochrane. |
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| A northbound freight entering the siding at Wynnewood. Photo by Chris Cochrane. |
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| Darren and I discussing a Woodlands Scenics building at Davis. Photo by Chris Cochrane. |
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| Greg is moving a cut of cars to the stock pen track at Davis. Peter in the centre and me on the right. Photo by Chris Cochrane. |
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| L-R: Greg and Peter. Photo by Chris Cochrane. |
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| L-R: Yardmaster John is about to add cars to a southbound Fast Freight being driven by Darren; Greg is switching the town industries; Graham is on the right doing some switching at Wynnewood. |
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| Graham with the Pauls Valley local freight at Wynnewood. |
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| Chris shooting a video of a northbound fast freight that he's running through Dougherty. |
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| Chris and his northbound Fast Freight at Davis. |
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| Peter with a trainload of empty gons for delivery to the quarries at Dougherty and Big Canyon. |
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| Peter (L) with his train of empty gondolas at Davis. Graham (R) is switching Johnstone Construction at Davis. |
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Derek (yardmaster at Ardmore) and Brendan working a northbound Fast Freight at Ardmore. |
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| Peter, with the southbound gravel train on the siding at Gene Autry waiting for a northbound passenger train driven by Darren passes on the main. |
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| Graham has just discovered that an Atlas coupler on a tank car he was to collect, has fallen apart. |
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| Derek classifying cars at Ardmore. He did a great job. |
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| Chris cutting out cars that are to be switched to the Wynnewood refinery. |
Larger versions of these photos are also available on my GC&SF Facebook page at:
https://www.facebook.com/GulflinesOperator
Regards,
Ron
