On April 1, 2014 the Deer Creek and Susquehanna Railroad hosted its first operation session with HARM (Harford Associates for Railroad Modeling). About a dozen members came to see what I had been working on and several were quickly put to work operating some local trains using some orders that I had created using the program Switchlist for the Mac. The railroad itself operated quite nicely with only a couple of derailments or other user errors were reported. However, the train orders did take about twice as long to complete than what I expected. This is not completely a surprise, since the operators were not as familiar with everything as I am. All in all it was a good evening and gave me some insight into how others may run my railroad in the future. I will continue to update my switchlists and work on scenery and structures in the meantime until the next formal operating session.
