Attendees: John Winters (a), Glenn Downing, Mike Kipps (whym), Dick Munnikhuysen (d), Philip Taylor (tpym), Jerry Ritter (whaym), Wayland Moore (o), Steve Robbins and Doug Barry.

The 114th session, held on March 15, 2014, hosted the third apprentice, John Winters. As for the session and the layout things went fairly smoothly. At the beginning of the session Dick, the dispatcher, emphasized getting trains out on time. Especially the passenger trains. These instructions were followed until White Hall yard decided that a mixed train (train #30) was a train of freight destined for mixed locations not served by this train and excluding any passenger cars. By the time this was corrected Dick no longer had to worry about keeping to the schedule but trying to keep the passenger trains less than two hours late. And both Glenn and Steve did something to get on the bad side of the dispatcher. Both were assigned to top priority passenger trains but were pulled from those assignments and given the pig trains. They must have done something really bad. As for the layout, the radio throttles seemed to want to act up early on but settled down and ultimately were reliable. And of course we had one turnout that didn't want to provide electrical continuity. This was the siding turnout in Brooke. Luckily it was working fine when aligned to the main. Tomorrow I will look into that. An after session audit found no out of place cars. Good job!