Micro Layout Ops

[Tyson Rayles]

I tend to disagree with the "don't need a fast clock" idea. Yes the scale guy has to walk at the same speed as a real one but you need the clock to give the impression you are doing a day's work. Even on larger layouts you can do a "complete day" in 4 hours or less. We all know no real railroad regularly works 4 hour days. On my shortline layout running it by myself (which takes the longest amount of time) only about 1 and a half hours of real time would go by (mainly due to the shorter then realistic distances between points A, B, C ect.) so I use a setting of 6-1 which gives me a 9 hour day. If ops change resulting in the actual time being more or less then I will adjust the fast clock accordingly.