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Scratch Built Steel Mills, Rivers & Barges, Massive Bridges & Realistic Scenery.
Welcome to a progress update of DJSTRAINS N Scale Union Railroad Train Layout.
Check out the videos that show how I made this layout so far:
How to Model a river.
How to get rid of that flat look
Background hills
Scratch build a rolling mill
How to paint a steel mill
How to make trees.
and more!!!
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Wow 😳 Great stuff DJ!! Uber impressed by the turntable especially. So many ideas you're throwing into my brain.
One word--Wow! Even in its unfinished state, it is very evocative of the place and time. In fact, it makes me homesick for my youth in the 70s and 80s in the Pittsburgh area.
my next video is a must for you.
The N scale open competition layout, just want to tell you that I think you did a great job on the layout, really love all the detail you put into the layout..
Great job, I can see you really love the hobby..
Thank you very much!
This is a fantastic layout. It really evokes that Rust Belt Steel City feeling!
I love the Kato turntable. The layout is coming along nicely. Thanks for sharing.
DJ thanks for the tour and I guess I'm over a year late. I don't think I have ever seen your entire layout. Looks like you're going to have a nice addition. I am from Ohio and lived about 35 minutes west of Pittsburgh. If I had to equal trains to a city it would be Pittsburgh easily. You've done a great job of catching the essence of that area. Keep the progress coming.
I really hate industrial, polluted areas, but man! If you're gonna model 'em, do it like you've done! This is just amazingly well done. Thanks for sharing. Can't wait to see what you do with those Pennsylvania mountains.
I have the same turntable and your tip will help me use it. Installed quite a time ago . The layout is cool and I lived there as a child and remember all the sites you are modeling. I like the steel mill backdrops. They make the scene well. Nice post!
More PGH related videos coming.
Very nice 👍 Looks like fun
Great looking layout, I'm from Pgh pa and the work is easily recognizable
Very cool!
Looks. Great. I finally received Susie’s book from Amazon this week. Thank you for introducing Susie to the rest of viewers.
Yeah!!!! I'm so glad you got a copy. I have a few autographed ones on my website if you would like copies as gifts.
Always a pleasure to watch your videos. Your scratch building talents are amazing.
I am not very artistic, and kinda impatient. So if I can scratch build something, then you can too. Lol. Its easy, fun and kinda addicting.
The new layout additions look good also great use of different heights on your setup.
Very nice DJ...scenery is looking real good...Thank You for the update Tom
Awesome layout!!👊🏻 Since I'm from the "Burgh" area I know that area. Looks great!! Stay Sae & God Bless!!
Thanks! You too!
This is an awesome layout! I really like the Kato turntable and and how you’ve wired it. The scratch built structures and industries are very nice as well. Cheers! Kaustav
nice video DJ - layout is coming along nicely. The coal scene is fabulous as well as the highway overpass. Thanks for sharing!
Pittsburgh is a great area to model. The loop for continuous running is badly neglected. Congrats. Thumbs up. Thanks.
Met you at Greenberg’s last month and bought a couple rolling stock. Asked you about steel mill models and we had nice discussion. You are quite a master of the scratch build; I’m getting there slowly. Thanks for the new vids. Looks like a much improved camera as well. Makes all the difference!
Hey my friend! How are you? Nice to hear from you. I did a lot of work last night too, so I can't wait to show you the progress when its finished. I am having fun with it.
Your layout is coming along nicely, keep up the good work 👍👍
this is absolutely well planned and built D.J great job looking forward to the next video
Very nice video DJ - I like your work on the Engine Shop, as well as your scenic effort. Thanks for sharing.
Very nice!
Thanks for the tour, your layout is growing and looks great!
Well done young man, glad you rectified the turntable issue
helps if I hooked it up right, lol.
Excellent update. Love seeing the entire layout!
I've been following before. Great to see this fabulous creation.
Nice layout looks great steel mill railroading at it's finest 👍🚂🚃🚃
Love the layout DJ and the object is fun for sure.
Mike
Yup, way too many serious modelers out there.
That is a very nice layout.and very realistic.
Always wonderful to see your progress. Happy Holiday!
You too, my friend!
This looks great DJ next time I come back to Pittsburgh I hope I can stop over!
Email me a few weeks prior so I can get off work.
LIKE THE LAYOUT. it's looking good, the turn table is something I wasn't looking at as I don't think they had one in colton ca but thanks for the great review, I want one now! Your daughter is growing up fast....looking foward to seeing more, your layout is great....thanks for sharing....Jack
I know. Sometimes she wakes up, and I look at her and say "You grew about an inch last night!" crazy.
Nice job DJ, keep up the good work and the updates coming
Very nice tour DJ, and your layout is awesome, I really like how you have taken the real places and added them to your layout. I watched your video on "The Flat Layout" and found your words to be very true. Planning on a better use of topography, even though the yards that werein my area were, once you left the yard there was a grade in either direction. Thank you for that video and all the other and for sharing.
Muse
nice work...lots of interesting elevation levels.
Very nice, thanks! I like to ride the bike trail down there to trainspot and get ideas for my HO layout.
I gave away my bike this summer, but I walk the trail often for inspiration and exercise. PLEASE make sure you subscribe to my channel and check out my website and look at MORE, MY RECOMMENDATIONS, RAILWAY & LOCOMOTIVE HISTORIC SOCIETY. I am now the treasurer for the new steel city chapter, and we are trying to preserve the roundhouse in McKeesport for our museum. Thanks David. If you see me on the trail, say hello!
Cool Dj, layout looks good. Nice to see the hole thing. Bob, Longshadows Model Tree's
Nice update DJ! Morgan is growing up so fast, she will be borrowing the keys to your car soon to take her guys out on the town. Yikes!!! Cheers, Dan
THANK YOU...for sharing.
Really digging the layout!
I did so much last night on the roundhouse
I enjoy your modeling and prototype videos but I know the most important thing you do is being a good father to your teenage daughter! Best wishes and Merry Christmas!
She is still 12 until August, lol. I love that kid so much, I get choked up when I think of her. I couldn't ask for a better kid.
Nicely he! I think in modern times had you derailed or even had a knuckle break the train would have automatically gone into emergency stop. I still liked the video and my favorite locomotives are the EMD switchers MP15ACs, SW1500s, MP15DCs. I've liked the ever since I was a kid and read the book "Your Freight Trains" written and illustrated by George J. Zaffo. The book itself is sixty years old copyright 1958 and I first read it in a Carnegie Library in my hometown. It documents the New Haven Railroad. It has several illustrations Alco S1s and S4s that run open face out . Its neat to see the engineer at the controls and this was back in the day when firemen were next inline to operate the locomotives. I had always been obsessed with finding that book and it took me fifty years to find it. I had been searching on and off but through the miracle of the internet and EBay I found two copies of the aforementioned book. The truth be know I ended up with all of Mr. Zaffo's books to find the one I was looking for but, it is truly a pearl of great price. Again I enjoyed your video and look forward to what you've done in the future.
Cool layout tour DJ
Looking good happy holidays
Great layout update, DJ! It's nice to see you and Morgan getting into the holiday spirit! I'm so glad you made this video since awhile has passed since you uploaded your last one on TH-cam. Merry Christmas and happy New Year to you and Morgan.
-from Tom Pilling
The last layout update was in march, but my tutorials all have shown some new areas of the layout. I'm working on the roundhouse scene mostly now. I have been cranking out at least 2-3 videos a month, some on how the railroad works. I have some other ideas on paper I hope you like. Whats challenging is trying to do these with CSX ringing my phone, lol.
You have done an amazing job capturing this area. As a courier for a medical group, I pass the Union RR yard 6 times a day and have taken lots of photo’s of that area. My dad spent 40 years at USS Duquesne. So m very familiar with that area as well. PS i also worked at Edgar Thompson in the old open hearth area while in college. I hope you get the new red and yellow paint scheme and caboose that they use now.
my next video is a must for you!
hey dj, cool tip i think you should know when scratch building, dont use the expensive stuff for roofs, go to home depot/lowes and buy a big sign for like 4-5 dollars.
100%. AGREE!!!
nice
Good stuff man! Power on!!
Your layout is looking good, you’ve put a lot of key Union elements into it. I especially like the engine shop. Nice work my friend. I’m looking forward to seeing what you do with the roundhouse; but, I seem to recall another video by some youtube modeler about space wasting turntables...hmmm, I can’t think of his name right now...
In my defense, I sayunless your layout is modeled after a particular place that is a focal point, to which this place holds a special railman spot in my heart.
I completely agree with you. I was just being a smart ass. I only have room for the engine shop, and even so I’ll have to put it in Duquesne.
Hey DJ the layout is looking Good and coming along nicely. I really like the engine facility and the turntable. I am planing a layout to built soon in N scale and I am very interested in Yard operations and set ups. Like the Fueling and Sanding Faculties, How do they get the sand into the towers and do they pump from tank cars into the fuel tanks. I have been using google maps to look at a few yards, but it is a liitle hard to know what I am looking at. What other common things will you find in a service yard? RIp track, wash racks, team tracks, MOW vechicles, paint shops? have you already done a video on yards operations? I see in most yards turntables, reversing loops or a WYE, So I assume that is common thing. Is there any type of standards, or logic to yard setups you can share with me? Thanks for all your info and your videos they are greatly appreciated and happy holidays to you and your family.
I think the Union Railroad had a repowered Baldwin, looked like an AS16m or As616m. It was probably scrapped by 1987, but still something cool to see done in N scale.
I am always thinking about it, but the trucks are not available in n scale other than 3d printing. Then its part gp 18 I think for the body, and a low nose, and all above my pay grade, lol.
Thanks for they reply, looks like the layout is really coming along good!
Nice, thanks for sharing. Would love to come for Ops one day. Good luck, TMRCI.
Will you be in Pittsburgh in May?
Looks fantastic DJ thanks for sharing.. I'm always curious to ask about space for layouts.. around how large is your room and is this a basement? looking for an idea of how large a space I would need.. I love large layouts
mine is only 13' x 13'. I am working on a new layout to show you don't need a lot of space. Please subscribe and stay tuned. To me, making a detailed small layout will be very rewarding.
DJ, Very nice layout tour, the layout looks great. You know I have to, being a fan of "The Little Giant" ;-) in 1987 those tracks running under the Port Perry Bridge on the ET side of the Mon river still belonged to the P&LE, CSX had trackage rights over the P&LE between Mckeesport and New Castle. The ramp track from the ET works up to the Port Perry bridge (Union Railroad track closest to the Mon river and P&LE tracks) was known as the "Cinder Bridge", because all the Cinder pots left the ET works using that track on their way to the Cinder dump in West Mifflin. If you have Rich Borkowski's Union Railroad in Color book, check out the photos of the Port Perry bridge on pages 52, 53, 60 & 61. DJ, you have done an excellent job of capturing the look and feel of the Union Railroad. Very impressive modeling with the engine facilities in Hall and I agree that Kato turntable looks fantastic. I'm looking forward to your next video update. Cheers, Rich S.
I was going to try that layout.. hehe
It was tough squeezing in so much track in my limited space. But to me, its my happy place.
very nice!
That intro was too funny!
can you do a video about the history of the union railroad, and have you ever thought about working for the union railroad, also awesome layout, with amazing scenery
When I was in my early 20's I went to their office in Monroeville. I asked the HR lady if they were hiring. She responded "we aren't hiring, and if we were, we'd hire the engineer's kids first". I said "That's nepotism", to which she responded "...and your point???"
So that is why I never got hired in the early 1990's. I hired with CSX in 1999. I am always thinking of new video ideas. The book "union Railroad in color" is still my all time favorite book.
thats not right, they shouldnt be allowed to treat people that way, have a whole new opinion of the union railroad. @@djstrains
In their defense, that was then, but now many CSX guys I worked with, have quit to go work there. At least there, there is no staying in a hotel like we do at CSX.
here is something for you.. Steamtown on May 18 2019. you tube meet and greet. so far, wilmer, indian head valley RR, Redbirdtony, Roy Smith from Panama, and Ron Piskel. coming.. and love to have you there also sir,, and your daughter.
I AM DEFINITELY INTERESTED!!! I will try to schedule my vacation days to make it.
Great layout. Need you to change to H. O. Lol
John the dark side..N Scale...we have cookies.
O and brought one of your mugs also! Gift too me... LOL
HUGE SMILE ON MY FACE!
Love your train layout I have some videos as well of mine
I will check it out
nice video!!!👏👏👏
DJ how do you keep your tracks clean? 🤞what methods do you use?
cheers
Richard
🇦🇷Argentina
I use the bright boy eraser to get crud off, but now I am also experimenting with this contact electrical paste from the video Rons trains and things did.
Very Nice !! I love the turntable.
The engine shop...where did you get the pictures for that ? I would love to have one of those on my set......someday.
One more thing....If you took LED lights which turned Red and Yellow , You could have that inside the melting plant to seems like work is being done. just an ideal to the realism.
Nice! Do you have a video on the furnaces? I am thinking about modeling Birmingham, Alabama and may try something similar.
Nice 👍 . Do you Kato for your main lines and atlas for your spurs and branch lines?
kato in the areas I don't normally photograph. Its flawless, but not the look I am going for in photos. Atlas for flex, but Peco for switches. I'm weird, lol.
Always a great video,get some great ideas to apply to my 2x4 layout, could you have a video or tell my how to apply distance between towns or landmarks so they don’t look like there on top of each other,like a town and a bridge that are 5 miles apart but with limited space it looks like there next to each other, it would be a great leaning video
2 words. scenic dividers. I have a video on them. Its easier than you think and it works to separate towns or themes. Last night a friend asked how he can do a coal mine and a industrial area in a small layout. By using a divider he can have the mine on one side an industrial on other.
th-cam.com/video/9-YN1U1AI98/w-d-xo.html
Does Morgan like model trains as much as you do?
No, she liked playing with the cars. Now its all minecraft, gravity falls, and stranger things
djstrains loved the video and the layout great work !!! , but I do have a question , are you modelling the Union Railroad or the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie or both on your layout ? ; Thank you for sharing.
Union is the only powered tracks. All the rest are for copying prototype area.
@@djstrains hey thanks man , looking for the finished product can't wait.
@@djstrains yeah I was just thinking the Pittsburgh &Lake Erie rr had a maze of tracks in and out of those terminals plus the interchanges good work and a great choice of a prototype to get the most out of n scale thanks for sharing.
Nice layout! Question for you: at Port Perry, you have a bridge going over the train tracks (the one with the bottle car on it). The bridge is just flat and thin. Is this modeled after something in real life? Or is it just "not completed" yet?
I ask because I have a section on my layout wherein I want that look (I don't want a truss or plate girder bridge)
If that section of your bridge is based on something in real life, then I can justify my railroad having the same type of bridge on my layout.
It was a "good enough for now" thing. Sometimes the prototype is too hard to compress so I just improvise. If you google map Edgar Thomson Steel mill in Braddock, Pa, you can see the real one. More of a girder, but I would have clearance issues.
@@djstrains Thank you for responding.
I was wondering id the switchers ran with there cabs forward.
yes, always.
So a white and black wire from layout to reverser two wires to DCC controller wheres the connection to the power supply (outlet) ?? also thinking of modeling conway yard north of Pittsburg west side of river any ideas or suggestions ???
I would like to drone conway, but there is nowhere good to park and set up without causing attention. Considering the area is miles long, simply pick the things that stand out to you most to model. Just go for the feel of the area, because if you try to match it too much, you'll go nuts.
DJ, not sure what an auto reverser does. Can you explain? Also
where did you purchase it? Thanks, Bill from Pittsburgh
auto reverser works for when you change the polarity of the rails, such as a wye, reverse loop, or turntable. I got it at the hobby store in jeannette. www.needztrains.com
YOU LOST THE CABOOSE !!! one month suspension... w/o pay !
''N''ice...........
Dust build up on those units....
you cracked me up. I started filming the river, and man you should have seen the dust on it. I'm such a scenery guy, I neglect my rolling stock, lol.
Such a cute intro with your daughter. Morgan got into the acting 100%... or WAS it acting? Did you name her after the magical lady, Morgan leFay? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_le_Fay
Hey, you talked about going HO some time. I wonder if you've seen this layout. It's BNSF "imaginary prototype," and man oh man! I know you'll like it.
th-cam.com/video/u8VrNGbFbl4/w-d-xo.html
Hey your not freezing, that was not even real snow...fishy channel
Lol, I needed that laugh this morning, THANKS!!
@@djstrains haha no problem, glad you had some laugh