Time to get some wood pellets up to the little house in the back. Since the 71 is all that's in service at the moment, we take it and work out some of the little bugs.
Thank you for that heads up, I have not ever lived in VT, so I do not know how the weather progresses. we have about 3 inches on the ground, but friday it will jump to ~40F then take a noise dive with 60 mph winds! with lake Erie still open, one heck of a lake effect will occur, not supposed to stop till monday! it will be a pain ! have a great night!
@@MillBrookRailroad The loss of power stinks! so much of our lives is tied to the power grid, at least over the past few summers they did a good job clearing out the trees from the power lines in W NY ( did not bother to do that for years ! ) so far it has had a positive effect with not losing power as often. how did you charge your car? do you have a back up? Up in VT do you lose the power often? or in the more rural areas? I hope they over hyped the storm that it hitting this weekend.
My car has a backup generator in it. Nothing I can use to power the house but it'll charge the 350V battery. We really don't lose power that often here. This is probably the third time in a decade. When we do lose power, however, it's off for several days.
@@MillBrookRailroad So sorry to hear that you lose power for days! that stinks, we now only have lost power for hours ( post trimming around the power lines ) the worst event was in ‘06 october surprise where I live all the trees still had their leaves and we had a snow storm! ~8-in of wet snow fell, my maple trees looked like PINES ! over ~1mile 57 cross beams on the power poles were gone! wires all over. 13 days w/o power, at first now bad, was not really cold, and very sunny during the day. then it went grey and the temp in the house dropped. went to the next town over and obtained a 5700 watt generator to run needed items. did that for the last 4 days, then we got the power back the bad part is our home is fed from the east end of the street, while the homes west of the next cross street had power 2 day’s sooner. others went weeks longer! can your pellet stove run w/o power?
The Mill Brook never gets old to me !! I love the simplicity and function of your railway. I myself am an N-scaler and only dream of having a 71/4 railway. So it has been nice to find your channel. I have really enjoyed your channel. I often sit here thinking of different ideas for a scenic railway. So I was curious. If you ever thought about adding some different scaled scenery to your property? I love the chicken coop scenery. So I was thinking about a scaled grain mill. You could also have a building for making your wood pellets. Your property has so much potential ! FREE PALLETS could be a great source for building projects. 2023 is right around the corner, so it will be great to see the future of your railway. Merry Christmas !!! Thanks for sharing
I was once an N-scaler dreaming of 7-1/4" gauge but I stopped investing in my N-scale layout one day and started building 7-1/4. I'd thought about miniature buildings at first but at some point I decided that the way I use it, it really isn't a scale model, anymore. It's more like an extremely narrow gauge railroad that just happens to be close in proportion to 1/8 scale. I stopped doing things because full size railroads do them and started looking at the reasons why certain things are done and others aren't. I started looking into the engineering behind the track itself and how the equipment interacts with it, what compromises can be made and how. What I ended up with looks a lot like a small industrial or logging railroad. There are a lot of compromises made that drive railroad track maintainers absolutely crazy, but at the end of the day, nobody gets hurt badly and there's no major property damage. Making wood pellets is a thought that intrigues me. I may build a machine one day that makes wood pellets and actually get some use out of my timber harvest. I've used free pallets a lot around here. The chicken coops and the sugar house are all made from old pallets. 2023 looks like it might be the year I catch up on some of my projects. Finishing Woodchuck Run Siding and connecting the tracks in the basement with the mainline are on that list, as is building roadbed to extend the railroad into the sugarbush. Merry Christmas! Thanks for watching and thank you for your comment.
Well, I was really glad to see this video this morning so I could drink my coffee in my new shiny Mill Brook coffee cup! Sure tastes better than normal! Many thanks!
You should take a piece of 3/16 angle iron and put it under the bottom of each pilot to protect them during derailments for the amount of time you dish rag your engines.
I'm working on steel pilots with half inch skid plates like the rear of the 70 used to have. The track didn't used to be this bad before covid. We used to have a couple volunteer work weekends a year.
Great suggestion, but I've already got it covered (with shellac). I put a couple coats of sealer on it before bringing it out to the engine house. It's not as good as some heavy layers of paint but it'll work until I get some color on it.
what i saw: 2:52 - 3:27. the rail itself is dropping down, indicating a need for added ballast under the ties near that joint. also, the joint bar itself is loose, that may be to allow for expansion and contraction of the rail in hot and cold, but it might be loose enough the rail is moving side to side as well. i also see one bolt missing from the right hand side of the joint bar. if it were me, i'd take the joint bar off. i'd probably replace the ties on both sides of the joint. add ballast etc. check for damage to the rail ends, new joint bar and make sure at least 1 end of the bar is as tight as it can get. in fact, i might even put a joint bar on both sides of the rail. as long as that clears the flange etc. either way, get the bolts as tight as i dared and still allow the rail to expand. i might even put a double wide tie directly under that joint and screw the ends of both rails down. i hope that helps, wish i was there to assist. keep on keepin' on my friend.
Aaron sometimes it is the small stuff that gives the biggest head aches! very nice WPR on the Mill Brook RR at least you do not have to shovel the rain. Wishes for a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! barry
Great question! First, find a place to put it, then check with zoning. Then survey and grade the roadbed. Lay 4 inches of ballast down, then lay your track, one tie and screw at a time. That's the short answer of the way Ido it. The long answer takes several videos. It's a lot of work but a lot of fun. Here's a video that gives you a glimpse into how it's done on my friend's railroad. th-cam.com/video/oqiy2BEgYOI/w-d-xo.html
A slogan say "we can handle it" , but never say what . MILB RR can improve it "We can handle derailment" and "We derail but deliver" Both are absolutely True. Nothing stop you in delivering pellet train load ! We all know that you have a hidden button for hy rail 71 to ride as well on rail than off rail. Cocorico said the ceo, happy to see the train running good. Merry Christmas to all your family and followers and make 2023 a good one with train videos of MILB RR secret life.
The rail deflects with the weight of engine/cars. Maybe tamp the ballast before and after that problem joint?
Great suggestion! I beat you to it, though. That's the subject of an upcoming video.
Pretty cool!
Thank you for that heads up, I have not ever lived in VT, so I do not know
how the weather progresses. we have about 3 inches on the ground, but
friday it will jump to ~40F then take a noise dive with 60 mph winds!
with lake Erie still open, one heck of a lake effect will occur, not supposed
to stop till monday! it will be a pain ! have a great night!
We got six inches or so of heavy snow last weekend. Then the power went out for three days. There's a two part video coming up in a couple weeks.
@@MillBrookRailroad The loss of power stinks! so much of our lives is
tied to the power grid, at least over the past few summers they did a good
job clearing out the trees from the power lines in W NY ( did not bother to do that
for years ! ) so far it has had a positive effect with not losing power as often.
how did you charge your car? do you have a back up? Up in VT do you lose
the power often? or in the more rural areas? I hope they over hyped the storm
that it hitting this weekend.
My car has a backup generator in it. Nothing I can use to power the house but it'll charge the 350V battery. We really don't lose power that often here. This is probably the third time in a decade. When we do lose power, however, it's off for several days.
@@MillBrookRailroad So sorry to hear that you lose power for days!
that stinks, we now only have lost power for hours ( post trimming
around the power lines ) the worst event was in ‘06 october surprise
where I live all the trees still had their leaves and we had a snow storm!
~8-in of wet snow fell, my maple trees looked like PINES !
over ~1mile 57 cross beams on the power poles were gone! wires
all over. 13 days w/o power, at first now bad, was not really cold,
and very sunny during the day. then it went grey and the temp in the house dropped.
went to the next town over and obtained a 5700 watt generator to
run needed items. did that for the last 4 days, then we got the power back
the bad part is our home is fed from the east end of the street, while the
homes west of the next cross street had power 2 day’s sooner. others
went weeks longer! can your pellet stove run w/o power?
Good to see she is running better. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Merry Christmas!
The Mill Brook never gets old to me !! I love the simplicity and function of your railway. I myself am an N-scaler and only dream of having a 71/4 railway. So it has been nice to find your channel. I have really enjoyed your channel. I often sit here thinking of different ideas for a scenic railway. So I was curious. If you ever thought about adding some different scaled scenery to your property? I love the chicken coop scenery. So I was thinking about a scaled grain mill. You could also have a building for making your wood pellets. Your property has so much potential ! FREE PALLETS could be a great source for building projects. 2023 is right around the corner, so it will be great to see the future of your railway. Merry Christmas !!! Thanks for sharing
I was once an N-scaler dreaming of 7-1/4" gauge but I stopped investing in my N-scale layout one day and started building 7-1/4.
I'd thought about miniature buildings at first but at some point I decided that the way I use it, it really isn't a scale model, anymore. It's more like an extremely narrow gauge railroad that just happens to be close in proportion to 1/8 scale. I stopped doing things because full size railroads do them and started looking at the reasons why certain things are done and others aren't. I started looking into the engineering behind the track itself and how the equipment interacts with it, what compromises can be made and how. What I ended up with looks a lot like a small industrial or logging railroad. There are a lot of compromises made that drive railroad track maintainers absolutely crazy, but at the end of the day, nobody gets hurt badly and there's no major property damage.
Making wood pellets is a thought that intrigues me. I may build a machine one day that makes wood pellets and actually get some use out of my timber harvest.
I've used free pallets a lot around here. The chicken coops and the sugar house are all made from old pallets.
2023 looks like it might be the year I catch up on some of my projects. Finishing Woodchuck Run Siding and connecting the tracks in the basement with the mainline are on that list, as is building roadbed to extend the railroad into the sugarbush.
Merry Christmas! Thanks for watching and thank you for your comment.
Well, I was really glad to see this video this morning so I could drink my coffee in my new shiny Mill Brook coffee cup! Sure tastes better than normal! Many thanks!
Glad you're enjoying it!
You should take a piece of 3/16 angle iron and put it under the bottom of each pilot to protect them during derailments for the amount of time you dish rag your engines.
I'm working on steel pilots with half inch skid plates like the rear of the 70 used to have.
The track didn't used to be this bad before covid. We used to have a couple volunteer work weekends a year.
So 71 will not need trainer wheels for Christmas after all bro. Safe travels.
Take care, Aaron! Many blessings for 2023!
I would at least get some primer on that engine to seal the wood up until it gets full paint ..
Great suggestion, but I've already got it covered (with shellac). I put a couple coats of sealer on it before bringing it out to the engine house. It's not as good as some heavy layers of paint but it'll work until I get some color on it.
what i saw: 2:52 - 3:27.
the rail itself is dropping down, indicating a need for added ballast under the ties near that joint.
also, the joint bar itself is loose, that may be to allow for expansion and contraction of the rail in hot and cold, but it might be loose enough the rail is moving side to side as well. i also see one bolt missing from the right hand side of the joint bar.
if it were me, i'd take the joint bar off. i'd probably replace the ties on both sides of the joint.
add ballast etc. check for damage to the rail ends, new joint bar and make sure at least 1 end of the bar is as tight as it can get.
in fact, i might even put a joint bar on both sides of the rail. as long as that clears the flange etc.
either way, get the bolts as tight as i dared and still allow the rail to expand.
i might even put a double wide tie directly under that joint and screw the ends of both rails down.
i hope that helps, wish i was there to assist.
keep on keepin' on my friend.
That was a bad tie under the joint. I fixed it later, off camera.
try a spring loaded chain tensioner something like used on a bike. that may fix you chain bindind.
I tightened the axles. That solved it.
Merry Christmas, Aaron, Johnathan and the rest of your family! 🎄
Merry Christmas!
How about building a snow broom Locomotive for the snow job
Locomotives are not cheap to build.
Do you have any branch lines planned going into the woods? You said you were going to cut some trees down
I do plan on an extension into the woods.
Aaron sometimes it is the small stuff that gives the biggest head aches!
very nice WPR on the Mill Brook RR at least you do not have to shovel the
rain. Wishes for a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! barry
Full disclosure: this was filmed early in December. We are very much in winter now.
Much better... would additional weight for the engine help at all?
I think these 2-axle engines are as heavy as they need to be. When I need something heavier, I'll build a bigger engine.
Thanks for the question!
I think loosing the chain, reduced a lot of the noise the engine was making.
It sure did!
How does one create a railroad like this
Great question!
First, find a place to put it, then check with zoning. Then survey and grade the roadbed. Lay 4 inches of ballast down, then lay your track, one tie and screw at a time.
That's the short answer of the way Ido it. The long answer takes several videos. It's a lot of work but a lot of fun.
Here's a video that gives you a glimpse into how it's done on my friend's railroad.
th-cam.com/video/oqiy2BEgYOI/w-d-xo.html
@@MillBrookRailroad so then is there a specific supplier for the track and ties?
You did a great job on the bridge. Have you considered signalling like a semaphores around the track just for fun?
Thanks!
I have some parts for a signal system. I want to finish the Woodchuck Run siding first.
Well if at first you don’t succeed try try again and I assume that you have heard about the derailment outside of Chattanooga tn in collegedale tn
I have not. Was it on the TVRM or NS?
A slogan say "we can handle it" , but never say what . MILB RR can improve it
"We can handle derailment" and
"We derail but deliver"
Both are absolutely True. Nothing stop you in delivering pellet train load !
We all know that you have a hidden button for hy rail 71 to ride as well on rail than off rail.
Cocorico said the ceo, happy to see the train running good.
Merry Christmas to all your family and followers and make 2023 a good one with train videos of MILB RR secret life.
Joyeux Nöel, mon amie!
I am like number 107
First view, like, and comment. Love your videos
Thanks!
Derailment not expected. Why is that? You constantly derail from what I have seen in your other videos, so why didn't you expect it this time?
Some derailment points are constant, some are not.
I didn't expect a derailment at that point.
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