Love your videos, they've opened up my interest in really learning how railroads operate. I started model railroading as a kid, then life happened and it fell to the wayside. Now that I've got my own kid whose showing interest I wanted to get back into it, and these videos are inspirational for me to learn (and even though she's only 7 and doesn't grasp it yet, she loves watching them too!).
Very good video, and interesting insight into operations. Great scenery and I love the backdrops as it really gives you a sense of being at a real location. Very, very good work all around.
Gentlemen, this is a most memorable layout and video. However, this was done in 2009 and it is now 2018 and it is time for some new videos of this layout and some updates. Shoot the juice to us Gus!
Hi Dean - I enjoyed "a day on the O&NE". Great narration and explanation of operations taking place. Your backdrops are excellent! Thanks for the neat video. Mike
Once again..I've watched this video a few times..stopping along the way to examine the track plan against the layout and study the purpose of each track..very well thought out. It shows that you have insight as to how things work and why. Thank you for sharing. Tom
Great video Dean!! I love your explanations, and the radio "chatter." I understand that you used to work as a rail yardmaster! That must have been very stressful with trains coming and going, and making sure each train has the correct cars!! But, I'm sure it was very rewarding, as you were very important in making sure the loads get to where they're supposed to go on time! Thanks for sharing Dean!
This is an awesome vid, the day ops were really cool to watch , lifelike dispatch and radio traffic too, best layout video I have ever watched , Great job sir !!!!
Nice work on the models, scenery and video! Did you scratch build the mill's continuous cycle digester and pretreater? It really adds to the mill and uses almost no real estate - a very nice detail! The log trailer stackers are a great touch also!
Amazing detail. One question is How do you accomplish the transition of the trains on the playing of the video that speeds up the movement of the consist through switching or in long runs. This is an amazing experience to allow to see the entire train but it doesn't take away the beauty of the train. Please help me understand your process in the post production of this cool way. Thanks much
thanks Scott. Almost any video editing software allows you to cut a video clip into shorter clips, then you can adjust the shorter clips to just about any speed you want. Mostly I've sped up the action to keep the pace moving but in some cases I actually slowed it down a bit as well.
How do you handle the loaded / unloaded cars in terms of what to do when they're ready to move back, i.e. log cars from Canyon reload or the mill with chip cars. They go to the yard full, you send empties back to the industry, but are you filling those empties or changing between sessions? Videos look great, keep them up.
Great question Jeff. It I haven't operated in a while I'll run the log train in reverse as a pre-check before the next session. I'll often do the same things with some of the trains in staging that have a lot of open lumber loads. But typically there's a fair amount of manual swapping of loaded and empty chip and lumber cars during session prep. I use car tabs so I don't have to worry about tracking car inventory in a software program.
I grew up in Burns Oregon, where the Massive Edward Hines Lumber Mill was located, actually in Hines. The Oregon and Northwestern was the Logging Railroad there. But I see you are using Edward Hines as the lumber company. I see a Caboose that is painted like the O&NW. Are you baseing this mill and railroad after the mill in Hines? I would really love to see an HO scale O&NW railroad, with its operations through Burns and to the Seneca mill and back. There are HO scale O&NW Baldwin Engines with the correct paint scheme. I would also love to see it connected to a HO scale Union Pacific Railroad, because the UP Burns Branch was the major railroad to and from the mill.
I'd say it's a little more "inspired by" rather than "based after" the Oregon & Northwestern. On my railroad the O&NE and town of Scanlon (another inspired name from Bend's Brooks-Scanlon mill) are located in the Dayville area. Of course my layout is N scale and the chances of seeing an N scale Baldwin painted in the O&NW scheme are surely non-existent, but I did find a caboose that someone had custom painted. The Oregon Joint Line passes a bit to the west of the town of Burns, but a UP local from Burns performs interchange with the OJL at my town of "Silvies".
Love your videos! What's the story on your great plywood mill (at about 1:17 for instance)? It reminds me of some of the mills in Southern Oregon, where I used to live. Thanks, and please keep the videos coming.
thanks Brian! The prototype for that mill is SDS Lumber in Bingen, WA. Looks like Wig-Wag Trains might still have it in stock www.wig-wag-trains.com/New%20Rail/New-Rail_Laser-Cut_Product-Page.htm
Thanks, I've sent them an e-mail and we'll see if they still have any in stock. I meant to ask, do you recall what paint you used? I'd like to use something similar, assuming I can find one of those neat structures. Thank you again.
I'll assume you meant 07:15. It's a yard transfer that doesn't go out on the main (the two yards are connected by a yard lead). There's no issue here, it's perfectly permissible (or at least it was when I was a prototype yardmaster in the 90's).
Why not use Locomotives painted in their own paint scheme for the O&NE Logging Railroad rather than use locomotives painted in Paint Scheme for Railroads like:The SP&S or US Army locomotives?
I'll get there eventually - but building a layout this large completely by myself I have to prioritize and doing a custom paint scheme for the O&NE is about 38th on the list of the most important things I need to do. In the meantime there is precedence for what I'm doing - the Oregon, California, & Eastern Railroad, an eastern Oregon logger which is a significant influence for the O&NE, used GN and SP power pretty exclusively (from what I understand) during the era I'm modeling.
There was no reason under the sun that will justify your childish speeding up of the switching. It would have be a real great switching ops video instead of looking clownish. Its hard enough to get people to take N Scale seriously and this doesn't help.
thanks for your comments Brakie. The primary reason for the speedup is that I'm compressing two hours worth of activity into a 15 minute video. Another is that my videos aren't "switching videos" - they're yard management instruction videos. I have more than two decades of experience as a prototype switchman, yardmaster, trainmaster, and well beyond and the focus of my videos is not on mundane switching tasks that anyone can learn in a few hours - it's on how a railroad manager thinks and interacts with other employees. My operating crew is mostly comprised of actual railroaders (all the way up to Vice President level) who have no problem taking my N scale operations seriously (and really like my videos!).
I notice a couple of rule infraction but,what do I know? I was a brakeman for 9 1/2 years. Still the speed up on the switching part was uncalled for. There are other ways to trim videos.
thanks for your opinion - will keep it in mind. Considering this is a logging railroad set in 1969 I'm not sure they would've even had a rule book to violate!
brakie44820 the only thing childish, clownish and uncalled for is your comment. I looked for your informative, prototypical, and educational switching videos and couldn't find them, hum.
Still looks childish..I have switched enough prototype cars to justify my comments. How many have you switched? Videos like this is why N Scale is still mocked..
Didn't even realize this was N scale till halfway through! Very lovely details all round!
thanks Kieran!
We DEFINITELY need to more opps videos on this fine railroad! NICELY DONE!
Great video Dean! Among the best at explaining a days operations and the purpose of why things are done the way they are done.
I really enjoy watching your videos. Thanks for doing such inspiring work.
Love your videos, they've opened up my interest in really learning how railroads operate. I started model railroading as a kid, then life happened and it fell to the wayside. Now that I've got my own kid whose showing interest I wanted to get back into it, and these videos are inspirational for me to learn (and even though she's only 7 and doesn't grasp it yet, she loves watching them too!).
Definitely, it's very hard to find high quality narrated ops videos like this
Very good video, and interesting insight into operations. Great scenery and I love the backdrops as it really gives you a sense of being at a real location. Very, very good work all around.
Gentlemen, this is a most memorable layout and video. However, this was done in 2009 and it is now 2018 and it is time for some new videos of this layout and some updates. Shoot the juice to us Gus!
Thanks. The video was done 9 months ago in the fall of 2017 rather than 9 years ago in 2009...
Hi Dean - I enjoyed "a day on the O&NE". Great narration and explanation of operations taking place. Your backdrops are excellent! Thanks for the neat video. Mike
Once again..I've watched this video a few times..stopping along the way to examine the track plan against the layout and study the purpose of each track..very well thought out. It shows that you have insight as to how things work and why. Thank you for sharing. Tom
Thanks Tom, appreciate the feedback!
These are some of the best videos I've watch and switching videos can really boring. Yours are tops.
Thanks George! I try to keep things moving along at a brisk pace so you don't have time to lose interest - glad you agree!
+Oregon Joint Line Model Railroad - Thanks for sharing Dean! I LOVE your videos...very interesting and educational!
Great video and what a nice operation you have! The video was extremely well made and interesting.
thanks. As you can imagine it takes a fair amount of time to produce these so I really appreciate the feedback!
I love your railroad. Very enjoyable to watch
Great video Dean!! I love your explanations, and the radio "chatter." I understand that you used to work as a rail yardmaster! That must have been very stressful with trains coming and going, and making sure each train has the correct cars!! But, I'm sure it was very rewarding, as you were very important in making sure the loads get to where they're supposed to go on time! Thanks for sharing Dean!
thanks David!
This is an awesome vid, the day ops were really cool to watch , lifelike dispatch and radio traffic too, best layout video I have ever watched , Great job sir !!!!
Thanks Wayne!
Well designed track layout for the logging area. And some cool radio chatter as well!
Dean, Great job
Very nice quality on the video!
Scenery rocks!!! Just like I remembered it.
Wyatt
Very nice layout. Great attention to detail & accurate.
Fun video. Wish you guys did more.
Very well produced. Nice vid!
Your backdrop is stunning
videos are awesome, brings model railroad videos to life
Nice work on the models, scenery and video! Did you scratch build the mill's continuous cycle digester and pretreater? It really adds to the mill and uses almost no real estate - a very nice detail! The log trailer stackers are a great touch also!
Very interesting. Enlightening narration.
Awesome layout question where did you get your backgrounds and industry structures?
Great operations, loved it
Very Cool layout and operations
This is amazing. I love shortlines
THANKS FOR VIDEO AS GREAT WATCH AS LOT DETAIL IN OPERATION IN YARD
Amazing detail. One question is How do you accomplish the transition of the trains on the playing of the video that speeds up the movement of the consist through switching or in long runs. This is an amazing experience to allow to see the entire train but it doesn't take away the beauty of the train. Please help me understand your process in the post production of this cool way. Thanks much
thanks Scott. Almost any video editing software allows you to cut a video clip into shorter clips, then you can adjust the shorter clips to just about any speed you want. Mostly I've sped up the action to keep the pace moving but in some cases I actually slowed it down a bit as well.
@@oregonjointlinemodelrailro4125 Fantastic transitions indeed.
Did you build your logging trucks and chip trucks or buy them, I would like a few for my layout.
How do you handle the loaded / unloaded cars in terms of what to do when they're ready to move back, i.e. log cars from Canyon reload or the mill with chip cars. They go to the yard full, you send empties back to the industry, but are you filling those empties or changing between sessions?
Videos look great, keep them up.
Great question Jeff. It I haven't operated in a while I'll run the log train in reverse as a pre-check before the next session. I'll often do the same things with some of the trains in staging that have a lot of open lumber loads. But typically there's a fair amount of manual swapping of loaded and empty chip and lumber cars during session prep. I use car tabs so I don't have to worry about tracking car inventory in a software program.
I must apologize for my comment. I thought i was commenting on another layout and mistakenly wrote the comment to your site.
I grew up in Burns Oregon, where the Massive Edward Hines Lumber Mill was located, actually in Hines. The Oregon and Northwestern was the Logging Railroad there. But I see you are using Edward Hines as the lumber company. I see a Caboose that is painted like the O&NW. Are you baseing this mill and railroad after the mill in Hines? I would really love to see an HO scale O&NW railroad, with its operations through Burns and to the Seneca mill and back. There are HO scale O&NW Baldwin Engines with the correct paint scheme. I would also love to see it connected to a HO scale Union Pacific Railroad, because the UP Burns Branch was the major railroad to and from the mill.
I'd say it's a little more "inspired by" rather than "based after" the Oregon & Northwestern. On my railroad the O&NE and town of Scanlon (another inspired name from Bend's Brooks-Scanlon mill) are located in the Dayville area. Of course my layout is N scale and the chances of seeing an N scale Baldwin painted in the O&NW scheme are surely non-existent, but I did find a caboose that someone had custom painted. The Oregon Joint Line passes a bit to the west of the town of Burns, but a UP local from Burns performs interchange with the OJL at my town of "Silvies".
Keep em coming man. No tragedies yet! 😁
Did you purchase freight cars with logs on them already, or did you put them on yourself?
what was the music used in the video? I like the music!
thanks! I actually composed and performed (or programmed) all the music.
Used to live there, going to watch.
Love your videos! What's the story on your great plywood mill (at about 1:17 for instance)? It reminds me of some of the mills in Southern Oregon, where I used to live. Thanks, and please keep the videos coming.
thanks Brian! The prototype for that mill is SDS Lumber in Bingen, WA. Looks like Wig-Wag Trains might still have it in stock www.wig-wag-trains.com/New%20Rail/New-Rail_Laser-Cut_Product-Page.htm
Thanks, I've sent them an e-mail and we'll see if they still have any in stock. I meant to ask, do you recall what paint you used? I'd like to use something similar, assuming I can find one of those neat structures. Thank you again.
Not sure what paint I used - it was a rattle can from Lowes that seemed appropriate....
Thanks. I have a Lowes almost kitty corner across the street from where I work, I'll pay them a visit. And I think that the color is perfect BTW!
I like it , great work !!
Love It Very Educational.
Great videos...
Logs are right to scale and look good!
How did you make the log loads? or what type of wood is it? I like the looks of it. Thanks for posting.
A mix of loads from detailsnscale.com/ or from willow twigs which grow down by my North Texas pond.
Thanks
I see you have converted some of the turnouts in the yard to slide switch control, do you prefer that as well?
Yes - the slide switches are also wired to power the frogs - so it's reduced stalls.
This as good as watching a Wes Anderson movie. LoL.
Love this!
Do you use live log loads?
And what do you use for the images of trains and the yard plans?
HELL YEAAAAAAAAAH!!!🤘
Best music :) 🚶🏼
What scale
How do you deal with unloading and loading cars are you layout? Pick them up and swap them? Or do you unload and reload their contents?
for the open loads I either pick them up and swap them or I run them back to where they started between sessions.
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thanks - appreciate the feedback!
Nice llocomotives
Cool
13:15 Tanker next to caboose? A real NO NO!
I'll assume you meant 07:15. It's a yard transfer that doesn't go out on the main (the two yards are connected by a yard lead). There's no issue here, it's perfectly permissible (or at least it was when I was a prototype yardmaster in the 90's).
Why not use Locomotives painted in their own paint scheme for the O&NE Logging Railroad rather than use locomotives painted in Paint Scheme for Railroads like:The SP&S or US Army locomotives?
I'll get there eventually - but building a layout this large completely by myself I have to prioritize and doing a custom paint scheme for the O&NE is about 38th on the list of the most important things I need to do. In the meantime there is precedence for what I'm doing - the Oregon, California, & Eastern Railroad, an eastern Oregon logger which is a significant influence for the O&NE, used GN and SP power pretty exclusively (from what I understand) during the era I'm modeling.
Just who are these Thumbs-down curmudgeons anyway?!
Jealousy is an Ugly Thing... - JS
The looks like ho gauge
it's not...
To many jump edits.
There was no reason under the sun that will justify your childish speeding up of the switching. It would have be a real great switching ops video instead of looking clownish. Its hard enough to get people to take N Scale seriously and this doesn't help.
thanks for your comments Brakie. The primary reason for the speedup is that I'm compressing two hours worth of activity into a 15 minute video. Another is that my videos aren't "switching videos" - they're yard management instruction videos. I have more than two decades of experience as a prototype switchman, yardmaster, trainmaster, and well beyond and the focus of my videos is not on mundane switching tasks that anyone can learn in a few hours - it's on how a railroad manager thinks and interacts with other employees. My operating crew is mostly comprised of actual railroaders (all the way up to Vice President level) who have no problem taking my N scale operations seriously (and really like my videos!).
I notice a couple of rule infraction but,what do I know? I was a brakeman for 9 1/2 years.
Still the speed up on the switching part was uncalled for. There are other ways to trim videos.
thanks for your opinion - will keep it in mind. Considering this is a logging railroad set in 1969 I'm not sure they would've even had a rule book to violate!
brakie44820 the only thing childish, clownish and uncalled for is your comment. I looked for your informative, prototypical, and educational switching videos and couldn't find them, hum.
Still looks childish..I have switched enough prototype cars to justify my comments. How many have you switched? Videos like this is why N Scale is still mocked..