Op Session Prep
| October 2025
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Location: Basement of 125 Eleanor St, Lavale, Md (near Parkside School)
At the house
- park in the lower driveway (with garage door),
before mailbox with 125 on right,
- extra parking up past mailbox
- enter the house thru the green basement door
- layout room off to the right
- bathroom upstairs down hallway to the right
- refridgerator available if you bring drinks
Op-Session jobs:
- currently there are 2 towns (jobs)
to switch industries at: Maizeville and Gilerton
- Maizeville includes swapping loads for MT hoppers and cars at the breaker
Layout features:
- NCE controllers are used (bring your own if you prefer)
- over-center spring switches are hand thrown with fingers
- Gum Proxabrush (right) are available for decoupling
- cards list industries that are checked-off ('X') as served
During the Op-Session
- currently trains originate from the staging track
in the middle of the peninsula
- pick-up all cars at town industries,
- pick up cards from fascia card holders
- put cards for cars dropped-off in fascia card holders
- trains are returned to staging on the track next to Gilberton
Should take ~1 hour
Currently, only the pennisula is completed (Mahanoy Plane coming soon)