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2012 Layout Design and Operations Weekend

Held March 23-25, 2012

Tulsa, Oklahoma
Presented by the Indian Nations Division of the NMRA
In conjunction with the LDSIG and OPSIG

Operating Session Layouts

Anthracite Lines Owner: Tom Fausser Crew: 4
Claremore & Southern Owner: Claremore & Southern RR Crew: 18
Deep River Southern Owner: Dave Salamon Crew: 3
Kansas City Terminal Owner: Jim Senese Crew: 8
Silverton & Lake City Owner: Dave Steensland Crew: 4
Southern Pacific Owner: Jim Sinclair Crew: 7
Santa Fe Hereford Subdivision Owner: Sammy Carlile Crew: 4 to 6
KCS 3rd Subdivision Owner: Steve Davis Crew: 8
Pandora & San Miguel Owner: Ken Ehlers Crew: 4 to 6
Berkshire and Franconia Owner: Rich Gibson Crew: 3

Resources

Here are links to download PDF's of the presentations (you may want to download the files to your hard disk by right-clicking and choosing "Save As..."):

• Jim Senese, Tom Fausser and Dave Salamon's presentation on car card and switchlist operations (2.6 MB)
• Steve Davis' presentation on JMRI Operations (1.2 MB)
• Charlie Tapper's write up of the layout design challenge - Part A (10 MB)
• Charlie Tapper's write up of the layout design challenge - Part B (12 MB)
• John McBee and Dick Hovey's presentation on the Pueblo Division (2.8 MB)

Please check back; we hope to add more presentations shortly.

Events

• Lance Mindheim
  • Planning and Designing a Switching Layout
  • Modeling Prototype Switching Operations
• Steve Davis
  • Computer Switchlists for Model Railroads: Why? And HOW to do it for FREE!
• John McBee with Dick Hovey
  • What Time Has Taught Me About My HO Scale Pueblo Division
• Jim Senese, Tom Fausser and Dave Salamon
  • How we operate our model railroads: variations in car forwarding systems
• Panel discussion of operations by the presenters.
• Layout Design Challenge - Operations in 32 square feet.
• 3 operating sessions on local layouts.

For any questions email: ldopchairman@tulsanmra.org

In case you missed the 2011 meet, click here for a look at what you missed.

In case you missed the 2009 meet, click here for a look at what you missed.

Workshop Presentations and Events

• Tony Koester
  • Multi-deck Layout Design and Construction
  • Timetable and Waybill Operations
  • Plus an update on the Nickel Plate Railroad Third Subdivision
• Riley Triggs
  • How to Model More Railroad than Your Room Can Hold: A layout design methodology for dynamic operating schemes
• Keith Robinson
  • Designing a Frisco Model Railroad for Operations
• Doug Gurin
  • Job-centered layout design: humanizing railroad prototype modeling
  • Frontiers of “finescale” freight, passenger, and rail-marine operations
• Layout Design Challenge
  • Click here to download a PDF containing the rules and the room for which a layout is to be designed.
  • Click here to download a large PDF (13 MB) containing the presentation given during the meet.
• Panel discussion of operations by the presenters.
• 3 operating sessions on local layouts.

Workshop Presentations

• Paul J. Dolkos – Designing Baltimore’s Fell Street District.
• Marty McGuirk – Designing the Central Vermont
• Keith Jordan – Designing Los Angeles' "The Patch"
• Chuck Hitchcock - Concept/Design and Operation of the Argentine Industrial District Railway
• Andy Sperandeo - Freight Yard Design and Operation
• Panel discussion of operations by the presenters.

Also:

• Birds of a Feather - discussion groups during lunch
  Box lunches available (menu and ordering below)
• Bring your trackplans, photos, display boards, and mockups to share with everyone.
  This will be a great opportunity to solicit feedback on your layout!
• Conclude the day with layout open houses from 6pm - 10pm.
  The operating layouts for the weekend plus several others.