Great work everyone, and a good idea for a thread!
Recently I've been operating my layout with a remote Engineers while I take the Conductor/brakeman role. This afternoon I worked for about 90 minutes with an Engineer about 20 miles away in Southern Ontario.
Earlier in the week the remote Engineer was in Melbourne, Australia. Here's a quick video with the Aussie Engineer. He's about 10,000 miles away.
We're still learning about the video and audio settings in Zoom to improve the quality but the DCC side of it has worked very well. It's not perfect by any means, but still a lot more fun that not operating at all because I can't invite crews over at the moment.
Pete