[Accrs-ho] Proposed Rules - Friday's meeting

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Gotcha Dean. Of course I'm not saying the entire layout should be of short trains (I myself love to run longer trains as you've seen). But on occasion I do like to pull out my Central Oregon & Pacific SD40-2 and run a local train with like 9 or 10 cars. However, I will also be bringing my CORP GP38 back into service finally after having to get a replacement decoder for it, so hopefully I will be able to at least double that number of cars.

 - Jamie

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> On Oct 15, 2017, at 5:11 PM, ACCRS HO Scale <accrs-ho at mail.accrs.org> wrote:
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> Message From: Dean & Margaret Lewis  lewis2 at earthlink.net
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> Jamie,
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> Can't recall if you were at the meeting or not.   The thing about the length of train, of course, for shows and the Fair, was about what makes a train.  An engine, two cars and a caboose, are not as exciting to a patron as a longer train.   The longest train gets the most comments.  Nothing was set, but it was a discussion point.   There are prototypical trains that only run two or three cars.  A track full of these type of trains wouldn't be so interesting to a patron.  That was the discussion.   No rules were offered or decided.
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> On a side note.   A few weeks back, early of a Friday afternoon, Peter ran a 100 car coal train and pulled it with 4 locos.  It ran well.    I put out a 60 car train.   His cars were 40-45' cars, mine were 50-60' cars.  Mine would not make it up to Jamestown with 4 locos.  .   It is a wonder it got our of the yard.   Trains were of comparable length, but mine was heavier.  I had to add a 5th loco and everything was good.   Ran with no problems and could run for a show or the fair if allowed.
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> Dean
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>> On 10/15/2017 2:44 PM, ACCRS HO Scale wrote:
>> Message From: A380Fan Aviation Videos  bayarearailfan at gmail.com
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>> I agree with Guenther regarding having some sort of track cleaning car on each train. The track is so often so dirty that Ron Chapman and I spend almost the whole time during Friday sessions just cleaning track so we can run other trains and even pay extra visits to the club to do that.
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>>  But regarding the minimum limit on number of cars on trains, if this is what I think it is, I personally do not think that would be a good idea. Not sure about other members, but I have a couple of locomotives, in particular my Analog GE AC4400CWs and my Genesee & Wyoming-painted CORP SD40-2, that are really restricted in the number of cars they can pull before stalling coming out of the Hidden Yard or climbing the grade into Jamestown, especially if I run heavier cars, and I don't want those engines just being limited to switching industries just because they can't pull as many cars when there are short local trains that do run on the mainline.
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>>  - Jamie  
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>>> On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 12:47 PM, ACCRS HO Scale <accrs-ho at mail.accrs.org> wrote:
>>> Message From: g.sound at sbcglobal.net  g.sound at sbcglobal.net
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>>> Hi Dean 
>>> Everyone has to have somekind of track cleaning device on your train.
>>> Guenther
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>>> ------ Original message------
>>> From: ACCRS HO Scale
>>> Date: Sat, Oct 14, 2017 8:42 PM
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>>> Subject:[Accrs-ho] Proposed Rules - Friday's meeting
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>>> Message From: Dean & Margaret Lewis  lewis2 at earthlink.netVery productive evening discussing club operation on the HO side.  Many suggestions and discussions.   Below is a list of most of the items we discussed.  These items should be covered in the rules book.Train Length - for shows / Fair   As long as track 9?  or????Don't set up in front, use hidden.Don't clean engines out front???  Don't put equipment on top of the main control panel.Pull problem cars if they act up 3 times.Test your train and locos prior to a show or Fair.  Do we wan
>>>  t to set a minimum limit on #of cars in a train?Perhaps a sign-up sheet for priority in operating the panel or running trains during shows or fair.Communication between Hidden and control panel is needed.  Fix phones???How to check equipment for standards and mark each car and/or loco in someway when they meet the standards.  Who will be the "car clerk" that does this?Assigning consist numbers using your assigned two digits.Yorg was going to take a stab at writing/rewriting Operating Rule 4.0 regarding visitors and/or non members running trains and some of the newest proposed wording in Rule 5,0Let me know if I missed anything.Dean._______________________________________________Accrs-ho mailing listAccrs-ho at mail.accrs.orghttps://mail.accrs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/accrs-ho
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