Op Session Prep

October 2025
Location: Basement of 125 Eleanor St, Lavale, Md (near Parkside School)

At the house

  1. park in the lower driveway (with garage door), before mailbox with 125 on right,
  2. extra parking up past mailbox
  3. enter the house thru the green basement door
  4. layout room off to the right
  5. bathroom upstairs down hallway to the right
  6. refridgerator available if you bring drinks

Op-Session jobs:

  1. currently there are 2 towns (jobs) to switch industries at: Maizeville and Gilerton
  2. Maizeville includes swapping loads for MT hoppers and cars at the breaker

Layout features:

  1. NCE controllers are used (bring your own if you prefer)
  2. over-center spring switches are hand thrown with fingers
  3. Gum Proxabrush (right) are available for decoupling
  4. cards list industries that are checked-off ('X') as served

During the Op-Session

  1. currently trains originate from the staging track in the middle of the peninsula
  2. pick-up all cars at town industries,
  3. pick up cards from fascia card holders
  4. put cards for cars dropped-off in fascia card holders
  5. 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)