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Scotts-dale Division Site
January 3, 2009 - First Operating Session
Today was the first operating session on the Scotts-dale Division It has been a bout 6 months since the SDD layout construction started. At times it has been very slow going. still, considering our daughter was born 3 1/2 months ago, it is coming along nicely. Currently 3 of 5 staging tracks are complete, the mainline and passing at Scotts-dale are complete, and 3 of five tracks in the yard are complete. This was enough track to stage two trains. Two trains, 21 cars arrived at SDD Yard. Unfortunately 0 cars were successfully delivered, giving a perform rating of 0%. This was a result of half the staff fell asleep on the job. while the offender will rename nameless, it was the brakeman. Still it was an hour plus of playing with trains with my son.
August 15, 2008 - Another Try at a Layout
In July, 18 months after moving, the new Scotts-dale Division layout was started. It took lots of though and numerous compromises to get "now" layout instead of the "dream" layout, still it will be great to have trains running again. Now the bench work is complete and laying roadbed is underway.
For more on the Layout, check out the Track Plan page. If your interested in the process to get to the now layout, check out the Givens & Druthers page. The design iterations for the dream layout are still posted here.
April 27, 2008 - NS Research @ SDD Created
The SDD web site is undergoing significant modifications in the coming months. First, all Norfolk Southern research will be collected in its own site NS Research @ SDD. Content currently found on the clinics and gallery sites will be moved. Second, Galleries @ SDD will not receive additional updates for the foreseeable future as most railfaning efforts have focused on the Norfolk Sothern. Third, Clinics @ SDD has been removed, as the remaining content will be available from other portions of the site or publications. The first example is the publishing of the article "Developing a Prototypical Roster" published in the NMRA MER region newsletter, The Local.
Focusing the web site will allow the limited time available to be spent on adding new content and collecting existing content about modeling modern day Norfolk Southern Operations on the Pocahontas Division, adding to the available knowledge base for all modelers.