WAZU

hey used to say that there are a thousand stories in the naked city. I’d respond by saying – first – put some pants on. I don’t want to see that. And second – that it’s very true for a model railroad op sessions. We’re basically in four places (dispatcher office, Portland and Spokane staging room, remote operations room, and the main layout room). So, even though most of us are in one place (with flock camera coverage across the entire area), it seems that we don’t know WTF is going on. I got called for crew service, basically two […]

id the Dispatcher Doodee on Doc’s sprawling WAZU. Had a great lunch (gumbo, since the Doc is a swamp-boy) and then settled myself in the back-room chair to run the railroad at peak efficiency. So let’s review something about timetables and efficiency. The thing is, the WAZU is simply a mother-may-I operation, nothing more. I’m not saying that’s good or bad – I’ve run MMI on my home layouts and at the club in the early days. We tried warrants on the WAZU but we simply could not get them out fast enough. So while we might sound like we’re kinda sorta […]

ince I was in the hospital with issues from speaking for two hours straight, running multiple Tuscarora sessions, setting up and striking two layouts and a head injury, I’m leaving this Clinicy Finicky blog to those who were there. So, multiple impressions coming atcha! Doc Andy The October Programmed Operations Session held by the WAZU Railroad yesterday is being compared to the heroic WWII Naval Battle off of Samar during the Leyte Beach Liberation of October 1944. Just like the legendary Native American (Cherokee) captain who famously told his crew, “This is going to be a fighting ship.  I intend to […]