On Saturday 8th November 2014 I hosted my regular Operations session. I say regular in lieu of monthly as sometimes due to events out of my control we have to wait an extended period before I can hold an ops session. The Oct ops session was cancelled as I was OS visiting my good friends in the USA
Saturdays ops session began at 2pm. As it turned out it was a fairly layback session and proceedings never really commenced until about 2:30pm. There were 8 participants in all and I think everybody had a great time. The session was wrapped up with a sausage sizzle and drinks around 6:30pm.
As we are now heading into summer I will reflect upon an appropriate commencement time for the OPs. I think that it may be far to warm for sessions to be held in the afternoon and therefore we will revert to the late afternoon and night sessions for a few months.
Below are some snapshots of the ops session.
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| Trev 2 and Mathew are all attentive and focused on switching tasks in Wallula |
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| Trevor is studying the switch lists. This helps him determine the moves he needs to make |
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| The west bound BNSF Manifest is ready to depart Wallula |
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| Laurie and Stephen hamming it up!!!! |
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| Stephen has switched the industries in Lakes Road and cleared the main just in time for a BNSF intermodal to makes its way eastbound |
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| Stephen focus's his attention to the switching he needs to perform whilst Laurie guides a BNSF manifest past Empire Avenue and into staging |
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| All focused |
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| A westbound UP manifest train entering the single track between Wallula and Boardman |
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| UP Manifest crossing Walla Walla Creek |
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| UP Manifest drifting down grade near spiral |
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| Still lots of switching to do at Wallula |
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| Spiral! Who would have guessed |
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| Trev2 is playing brakeman and uncoupling cars in Boardman |
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| West staging |
