Great video from a rail fan point of view. Not only do I like the colorful loco's, but the different make and models a well. Best 1 1/2 hr. spent today. Thanks!
This was fun to watch and informative, thanks for sharing your ops sessions! Im not an expert on bromine, but I do know that it was used in flame retardants, pesticides, and even photography chemicals.
Glad you enjoyed the whole thing! Bang! LOL, I can't remember if I checked to make sure I got them all in, or if it was just a natural instinct to say "Bang" by now...
Thanks for your comment! I found out today that the "Fern Turn" train was often pulled by NP re-patched RS11's with some GP's so we'll have to make a motive power change there next time. Stay warm!
A busy day of yard operations on the Burlington Northern. Some yards on layout's are just mainly for storage of rolling stock (like mine) but your layout functions like the prototype which is more interesting and fun when you have a crew with you. I like all the coupler "bangs" featured in this one and the near collision in the yard after someone forgot to throw a switch.😆 Great video Burr , I had to watch it in multiple viewings.
Really glad you enjoyed it so much, Mike, and thanks for your comments. I had a lot of fun editing it, deciding what to cut (the truly boring parts) and what to leave in (the bangs and the near collision, the unit trains, etc.).
@ well, everything! I am as much a "newbie" as it gets. Looking to get into realistic operations not knowing a thing about it. I'll be checking out your other videos as I go along I'm sure.
If you haven't found it yet, I recommend looking into @operationsSIG where they have a lot of useful presentations on model railroad operations. Their quarterly magazine is worthwhile as well, if you join opsig.org
Since I've never done an op of any kind, this is truly inspiring. These folks are truly into what they're doing. Fun stuff. But to try this for the first time would be brutal.
Thanks for your comment. It's definitely a learning curve, but usually with beginners, we'll pair them with an experienced person and they can do it in teams. It's fun!
Merry Christmas Burr and all the Burlington Northern Seattle Division crew. I enjoy running a yard during ops sessions so I enjoyed this video even though it took me two weeks off and on to watch the whole video. I noticed 3 green BN locos sitting on a train in the distance on the middle level they seemed to disappear around 48mins to 55 mins but otherwise were there all the time. What were they doing? 😀 Cheers Ken
Great question! Those three green BN F45's are on the point of the loaded unit coal train. It is normally stored on the "ramp track" which slopes down from Bellingham staging to Tacoma staging, and when we run the train it emerges in South Seattle and runs north all the way to Bellingham and back into it's ramp staging track. The times that the engines are not visible on the video are when we were running the train through its paces, and at some point you see the train pass through Interbay yard. I'm glad you enjoyed this video, in multiple sessions. True dedication! Merry Christmas!
I like the instructional aspect of this video, Burr. A nice follow up/ companion video your viewers might enjoy might be one that shows the sequenced thought and organizational process a yardmaster goes through at the beginning of (or just prior to) a session. How he/she organizes blocks of cars according the car cards or switch lists. and how they decide what has the most immediate priority, which track to put a car on, etc. (A look over their shoulder as they figure it all out). I try to pick the brains of yardmaster I assist but things get busy fast and some of that can fall by the wayside. I've been enjoying the inclusion of operator's chatter in your recent videos. The "much fun" part!
A suggestion. Have a deck of “community chest” cards for air tests. Any train made up and has engines coupled, have the engineer pick a card to see if the air test was successful or if there is a bad order car that needs to be switched out of the train. True railroading at its best!
@@muchfunwithtrains No idea how this got into my feed, but interesting seeing a modeler work a yard. Main rule of a yardmaster, keepem safe and moving.
i was a switchman for the chicago and northwestern... the one thing that i noticed with our yardmasters was the CONSTANT ringing of that freakn' telephone... that alone put me off from being a yardmaster LOL
I wish we had a layout like this to operate on near me. The closest we have in the Lakeshores Division of the NMRA is the layout that I am operating on Sunday afternoon which has 3 active yards. There are a couple others but their yards aren't that active or there's only one. This operating session will bring me up to 24 hours of operating experience in a year.
Thanks for your comment. I agree, not too many layouts are as yard-intensive as this one. I find it super fun, but some people like running out on the mainline with signals and such. Hope you find more people near you over time...
It all depends on what you want to do. The main purpose of a yard is to sort cars, so even a very short yard is better than nothing, assuming you want to sort cars. Some people have model railroads where all they do is run trains around, and they don't need a yard. Or maybe they need a "staging yard" that is as long as the longest train they want to run. Or maybe they have a passing siding on the mainline somewhere, so they want the yard to be as long as their passing siding. But if the yard is shorter than that, you can always take cars from more than one track out of the yard and switch it into a train. It all depends on your (operational) goals.
Also, I meant to mention that there are several different types of yards. The one here in this video is a classic "division point" yard, where crews, engines and cabooses are pulled on and off trains. But there are also "interchange yards" for connecting with other railroads, "industry yards" for sorting cars near industry shipping districts, and even yards at a specific shipper for handling arriving and departing cars. For example, I have a four track, stub-ended receiving yard at my Cargill export grain terminal, which is just long enough to hold a single unit grain train, split between four tracks. It's about five feet long, where my double-ended division point yard (in this video) is about 30 feet long, and the video is only showing the action on the northern half of it.
@@muchfunwithtrains I do not think the bromine car changed tracks as much as you think. I noticed that that bromine car seems to stay on the same track (I call it track 3, the transformer/flat would be on track 1) The camera shifts 1 track left or right giving the illusion that the bromine car changed tracks. Also the track next to the bromine car had cars and then was emptied also helping give the illusion the bromine car changed tracks. At the end of the clip, the bromine car is still behind the SP Box on what I call track 3 from my view angle. I count 1,2,3 yellow throws out of the 5 visible...
Great video from a rail fan point of view. Not only do I like the colorful loco's, but the different make and models a well. Best 1 1/2 hr. spent today. Thanks!
Thanks! I really enjoy the variety of the 1970's era, with all the mergers going on.
Nice yard
Thanks. I copied the prototype in a condensed form...
This was fun to watch and informative, thanks for sharing your ops sessions!
Im not an expert on bromine, but I do know that it was used in flame retardants, pesticides, and even photography chemicals.
Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for the input on bromine!
Fun video. I had to watch it in two sessions, but that was no problem. I was checking the "bangs" and I don't think you missed any. 😄👍
Glad you enjoyed the whole thing! Bang! LOL, I can't remember if I checked to make sure I got them all in, or if it was just a natural instinct to say "Bang" by now...
22 degrees here..i'm railfanning your layout next to my fireplace ...enjoy your videos and narrating ..those Alco NP engines are nice.
Thanks for your comment! I found out today that the "Fern Turn" train was often pulled by NP re-patched RS11's with some GP's so we'll have to make a motive power change there next time. Stay warm!
Thanks Burr, I watch 2 times cause to fun, your guys are to much bangs they need formation ,see you next time
Yes, we certainly see a variety of 'bang-man" styles!!
Excellent and informative video! Thank you!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
A busy day of yard operations on the Burlington Northern. Some yards on layout's are just mainly for storage of rolling stock (like mine) but your layout functions like the prototype which is more interesting and fun when you have a crew with you. I like all the coupler "bangs" featured in this one and the near collision in the yard after someone forgot to throw a switch.😆 Great video Burr , I had to watch it in multiple viewings.
Really glad you enjoyed it so much, Mike, and thanks for your comments. I had a lot of fun editing it, deciding what to cut (the truly boring parts) and what to leave in (the bangs and the near collision, the unit trains, etc.).
You're welcome Burr. I can see how editing these videos would be fun too.@@muchfunwithtrains
Learned a tremendous amount, thanks...new sub, notifs on. 👍
Thanks and welcome. What kinds of things did you learn?
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well, everything! I am as much a "newbie" as it gets. Looking to get into realistic operations not knowing a thing about it. I'll be checking out your other videos as I go along I'm sure.
If you haven't found it yet, I recommend looking into @operationsSIG where they have a lot of useful presentations on model railroad operations. Their quarterly magazine is worthwhile as well, if you join opsig.org
Since I've never done an op of any kind, this is truly inspiring. These folks are truly into what they're doing. Fun stuff. But to try this for the first time would be brutal.
Thanks for your comment. It's definitely a learning curve, but usually with beginners, we'll pair them with an experienced person and they can do it in teams. It's fun!
Merry Christmas Burr and all the Burlington Northern Seattle Division crew. I enjoy running a yard during ops sessions so I enjoyed this video even though it took me two weeks off and on to watch the whole video. I noticed 3 green BN locos sitting on a train in the distance on the middle level they seemed to disappear around 48mins to 55 mins but otherwise were there all the time. What were they doing? 😀 Cheers Ken
Great question! Those three green BN F45's are on the point of the loaded unit coal train. It is normally stored on the "ramp track" which slopes down from Bellingham staging to Tacoma staging, and when we run the train it emerges in South Seattle and runs north all the way to Bellingham and back into it's ramp staging track. The times that the engines are not visible on the video are when we were running the train through its paces, and at some point you see the train pass through Interbay yard.
I'm glad you enjoyed this video, in multiple sessions. True dedication! Merry Christmas!
@@muchfunwithtrains No worries Burr. I am just a you-tube addict. Thanks for illuminating me regarding the three green BN F45s.
Cheers Ken 😀
Nice video burr
I like the instructional aspect of this video, Burr. A nice follow up/ companion video your viewers might enjoy might be one that shows the sequenced thought and organizational process a yardmaster goes through at the beginning of (or just prior to) a session. How he/she organizes blocks of cars according the car cards or switch lists. and how they decide what has the most immediate priority, which track to put a car on, etc.
(A look over their shoulder as they figure it all out). I try to pick the brains of yardmaster I assist but things get busy fast and some of that can fall by the wayside.
I've been enjoying the inclusion of operator's chatter in your recent videos. The "much fun" part!
Thanks Jim. That's a good suggestion.
A suggestion. Have a deck of “community chest” cards for air tests. Any train made up and has engines coupled, have the engineer pick a card to see if the air test was successful or if there is a bad order car that needs to be switched out of the train. True railroading at its best!
I'm a CN yardmaster, this just scratches the surface with amount of BS a yardmaster deals with.
True! Definitely an advantage to modeling vs. the real thing.
@@muchfunwithtrains No idea how this got into my feed, but interesting seeing a modeler work a yard. Main rule of a yardmaster, keepem safe and moving.
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for your comments.
i was a switchman for the chicago and northwestern... the one thing that i noticed with our yardmasters was the CONSTANT ringing of that freakn' telephone... that alone put me off from being a yardmaster LOL
@@25mfd 26 years on the ground as a conductor. Nice to sit in an office when its -40F.
I wish we had a layout like this to operate on near me. The closest we have in the Lakeshores Division of the NMRA is the layout that I am operating on Sunday afternoon which has 3 active yards. There are a couple others but their yards aren't that active or there's only one. This operating session will bring me up to 24 hours of operating experience in a year.
Thanks for your comment. I agree, not too many layouts are as yard-intensive as this one. I find it super fun, but some people like running out on the mainline with signals and such. Hope you find more people near you over time...
In terms of length how longvshould a railroad yard be?
It all depends on what you want to do. The main purpose of a yard is to sort cars, so even a very short yard is better than nothing, assuming you want to sort cars. Some people have model railroads where all they do is run trains around, and they don't need a yard. Or maybe they need a "staging yard" that is as long as the longest train they want to run. Or maybe they have a passing siding on the mainline somewhere, so they want the yard to be as long as their passing siding. But if the yard is shorter than that, you can always take cars from more than one track out of the yard and switch it into a train. It all depends on your (operational) goals.
Also, I meant to mention that there are several different types of yards. The one here in this video is a classic "division point" yard, where crews, engines and cabooses are pulled on and off trains. But there are also "interchange yards" for connecting with other railroads, "industry yards" for sorting cars near industry shipping districts, and even yards at a specific shipper for handling arriving and departing cars. For example, I have a four track, stub-ended receiving yard at my Cargill export grain terminal, which is just long enough to hold a single unit grain train, split between four tracks. It's about five feet long, where my double-ended division point yard (in this video) is about 30 feet long, and the video is only showing the action on the northern half of it.
1:24:18 and 1:24:22 double bang on a tank car 🚃🚃💥🚃🚃🚃🚂
I should have put an explosion graphic in there!
@@muchfunwithtrainsYou can put them in the description with a timestamp
This was too easy, I spy the Blue LDRR box car in the opening shot, Now what will I do for the other 91 minutes of the video....
See if you can guess why the bromine car kept moving from one track to another. I can't figure it out...
@@muchfunwithtrains Will do :)
@@muchfunwithtrains I do not think the bromine car changed tracks as much as you think. I noticed that that bromine car seems to stay on the same track (I call it track 3, the transformer/flat would be on track 1) The camera shifts 1 track left or right giving the illusion that the bromine car changed tracks. Also the track next to the bromine car had cars and then was emptied also helping give the illusion the bromine car changed tracks. At the end of the clip, the bromine car is still behind the SP Box on what I call track 3 from my view angle. I count 1,2,3 yellow throws out of the 5 visible...