More Ops Sessions

 A working layout

One of the key reasons for the layout design and build is for operations.

Per the last blog, I had an ops session with the guys from the Victorian NMRA and had 9 of us in the shed and was too many and too busy.

Today, 30th May 2026, I had another session, this time it was with friends from the N Scale collective with Darren, Roger, Tony S and Tony L. The guys are all experienced operators and regularly operate on Darren's Victorian Railways based N scale layout.

The layout has 11 staged trains plus the 3 local trains, put the pass that can run the reverse direction.

Today we ran all 15 trains and one or 2 a second time.

The layout has never been run with so many trains before and was a great work out for the layout and it ran very well.

Here are a few of the guys operating the layout.

The following pictures are of a visiting box car from the USA. This is a box car that travels the world to peoples layouts. There is a log book that comes with the car that is filled in to track its progress around layouts and the world. 

This box car is marked as "Around the layout podcast".

The box car is now scheduled to go to Brisbane.