Filmed: 02/16/18
So what is the Prairie Rail Invitational? Basically, model railroaders from all over the country (sometimes even other countries) who are enjoy operating sessions, gathering together to operate on area home layouts (mostly) of their choosing. It's a three day, Friday-Sunday, event with four operating sessions. The first session is Friday afternoon, followed by a morning and afternoon session on Saturday, with a big dinner/banquet Saturday evening. The last session takes place Sunday morning which concludes the event.
It's all based out of one somewhat centrally located hotel, where the out of towners stay, and are then bused (unless they choose their own transportation, like I did) to the layouts they were signed up for. Once at the layout owners home, the owner will give a tour of the layout and what is involved in operating on the layout as no two home railroads work exactly the same. Each session is three hours long, giving people plenty of time to work more than one job, unless you choose to dispatch or be a yardmaster, then you're in that one job the entire session.
I only participated in three of the sessions (I didn't do the Saturday afternoon session) and wasn't able to attend the dinner Saturday evening. My first session on Friday was at Dave Acheson's place where he has a huge, mostly completed HO scale layout based on the Joint Line in Colorado between Denver and Pueblo. The layout is set in the 70's, so well before the BNSF and UP takeover of SP/Rio Grande. It also has a branch line to Golden, CO that takes you to the Coor's plant.
The Joint Line was owned by both the Rio Grande and Santa Fe, with Burlington Northern on trackage rights, however they were Santa Fe crews running the BN trains. Union Pacific also has a presence as they had their own line into Denver, and interacted with the other lines. So those are the three main railroads on this layout. There are also the CB&Q and Rock Island locals, and of course the most popular among the operators, the Coor's Brewery Plant switching railroad.
I chose to work the road trains so I could film as much of the layout as possible. First train I ran was a Rio Grande coal, then a Santa Fe manifest, followed by a Union Pacific transfer, finishing up with a BN coal train. I don't usually film the first time I operate at a layout, it's tricky enough to run trains a film at the same time, but throw in operating on an unfamiliar layout, makes it even harder, especially when time is an issue. But I did film as I wanted to document the layouts I went to and to have some new stuff to post here on YouTube.
I've known the owner, Dave, for about a year and a half now. We are both regular crew members on Jon Percy's N scale Buffalo & Pittsburgh railroad. We're regularly over there on Jon's Wednesday night work sessions. In fact the first time I ever operated on Jon's B&P layout, Dave was my partner working the Buffalo Yard. But, what you see in this video, was the first time I operating at Dave's. BTW, Dave is the guy in the vest with the Dispatcher at the beginning of this video.
Anyway, that's about it for this video. I'll have two more of these coming in the next two Sundays. I'll also have an Ops video from Jon Percy's that I'll be filming today (03/04/18). So lot's of home layout videos incoming, then we'll be back at my club. So stay tuned, thanks for watching, and see you next time!
Jason
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