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Basic Operation: Running the River Job

By Angela Cotey | May 20, 2013

| Last updated on December 1, 2020

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Learn the basics of switchlists, car cards, station numbers and more as David Popp and Ben Lake take you with them to work the River Job. This is a local freight that works the industries along the Naugatuck River on David’s N scale New Haven layout.

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