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Would you like to see your C/MRI Application featured on the JLC WEB Site? If you would please send high quality digital photos (jpg or png), to chubbbrucemmr@aol.com along with a paragraph or two defining your C/MRI application, programming language, experiences and achieved benefits. One of the photos needs to include you in the picture. All the photos should illustrate the C/MRI and its impact on your railroad. If you include your email address and/or a related railroad WEB site, it will most likely be included as part of your application's write up. All write ups are considered provided without any monitory or other...

This HO scale layout features the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), Reading Railroad (RDG), and Western Maryland Railway (WM) in South Central Pennsylvania and Maryland. It is comprised of two to three decks in a 22' x 36' basement. It is set in the transition era of the mid 1950's with both steam and diesel locomotives. It is a "proto-freelance" railroad (it is not meant to be an exact "replica" of the actual railroad, but rather capture the "flavor" of what these railroads were in the 1950's). The layout models the PRR from Washington, DC to Enola, PA with additional staging at...

Steven Mallery, who just happens to be a prototype dispatcher for Norfolk Southern working the same geographical area that he models, runs his mid 1960's era PRR Buffalo Line from South Williamsport, PA to Buffalo, NY as a point to point layout with three staging yards representing Enola, PA, Buffalo, NY, and Erie, PA. The principal classification yard at Renovo is supplemented by four small local yards. Half of the 230 feet of HO scale single track mainline with passing sidings is on two levels allowing plenty of space on the other single level half for a major layout feature,...

Operation: The Reading Lines is operated monthly by a crew of up to twelve people. The timetable allows for nearly thirty trains to be run during each session. Most of the freight traffic is bridge traffic, that is, coming on line at one connection (staging) and making its way to another connection (staging). About 15% of the freight traffic finds its way to on-line industries or yards. Movement of trains is done using a CTC machine, operating rule book and radios for communications with the dispatcher, tower operators, yardmasters and train crews. A fast clock is used to pace the...

One of the reasons that John decided to go with the C/MRI System was the capability to create a computer monitor screen of the action on the railroad. As you can see by the photo the outcome can be quite good. Due to the complexity of the junction in the middle of the railroad he elected to represent the railroad track plan in a blend of traditional track plan configuration and CTC straight line schematic. If you can see the detail in the photo you will notice that he has reprogrammed the ASCII character sets to allow the “drawing” of...