PACIFIC SOUTHWEST EXPRESS Op’s SESSIONS
- Welcome to the 2025 Pacific Southwest Express Reginal Convention layout operations web page. We will be trying something new at the 2025 Pacific Southwest Region Convention and that will be expanding the normal home Op’s Layout by including an Op’s layout located in the hotel. Operations at both the hotel and off-site layouts will take place Thursday, September 4th in the morning, afternoon and evening, on Friday, September 5th in the morning and afternoon, and Saturday, September 6th in the morning to midafternoon, at the discretion of the layout owners operating times. If you wish to participate in an Op’s session you will need to pre-register to guarantee you have a spot at one or more of our outstanding layouts. Pre- registration will open in February once we have all the layout information formalized and on the web site. We currently have commitments from the following layout owners and more detailed information will be provided over the next few months about each layout and additional layouts as we secure them for the convention. And if you have an Op’s Layout in the geographical area of the convention and would like to participate, please contact me at xxxx Carl Heimberger
- Home Layouts to date:
- Marty Bradley, Oakhurst Railroad – Los Alamitos
- Gary Butts, G&SRR - Huntington Beach
- Bill Meyer, ATSF Big Creek Sub - Fullerton
- Joel Morse, New York Ontario & Western – Garden Grove
On site Hotel layouts to date:
- Orange County Module Railroaders, inc. “The LA industrial switching district of Orange County”.
So, if you have never operated on a layout that is run like a real railroad this could be your opportunity to experience a new way to run your trains. And I almost guarantee that running Christmas Tree trains around a layout will be a thing of the past for you once you have experienced and Op’s session.