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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- In Part 3 of 3, the Port Coal loads return from Shelby to Edmonton. The engineer gets new orders to take empties to the Starboard Coal Mine. In this situation, all the switching moves to the mine are facing. Interesting track work was designed to make this work smoothly and also keeps the main clear. This is also a real time FNG run.
One can appreciate that what you see in this series is done in a 2.5 hour Friday Night Group session and is complicated by other trains doing their runs as well.
Well done railroad operations & tour. • Cheers from Michigan
Cheers. Glad you had such a great time. Good bunch of modellers in Michigan. Hope to get down thre someday.
I really enjoyed this video. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed the show
Have a great day
I like how you can move at different angles with different train loads and make it look like a different place
Using a small csmera it allows me to get into the layout on different angles and pan and zoom with my hand.
Very nice series. Enjoyed watching! Keep 'em coming Chris!!
Will do my best.
five stars***** what an great model railroad, the scenery is awesome outstanding ops
thanks for sharing, Chuck
Hi Chuck. Thanks very much for the complements. I really appreciate your response.
Incredible series as always! Thanks Chris,
Thanks very much for the nice words.
Those UFIX cars would look really nice behind a quartet of BN SD40-2's or U30C's, or a trio of SD70MAC's in that beautiful executive paint scheme, rolling through Texas on their way to Houston.
They usually run with the Executive scheme. But I do love this brass set
great ops on this --love it. I gotta get me a nice 54 car unit coal train sometime this year.
Love that NAR Geep. When I was young I used to see it in Grande Prairie all the time.
NAR indeed has a fantastic colour scheme. This SD38-2 is one of four they had. Eventually absorbed into the CN roster when they bought out the Northern Alberta Railways.
When I designed my layout I wanted coal mining but there is none on the railroads I am modeling nor is there legitimacy in a coal mine on the freelanced railroad. However with eastern power plants requiring 2 trains a week, an industry requiring a coal train a week, two power plants requiring a coal train every other day plus the freelanced steel mill I will be building requiring a coke/coal train per day and 2 every other day I will have plenty of coal moving.
That will look great I really like coal drags. Lela and I visited the powder river basin and spent a whole day watching and photoing these trains
What an awesome layout!!! One of the best in regards to coal mine load-out stations and operation. Please keep the videos coming!! Do you have plans for more open pit mining equipment? Also, where is this layout located...I'm guessing Edmonton, but would love to see it some day. Great work...cheers!!
What is the official designation of the wide-bodied locomotive? Sorry for my lack of knowledge of Canadian units, believe me, I'm trying to learn.
SD50AF. They were released initially as 9901. This was a transition for CN as the unit has the SD50 shell with the SD60 prime mover. So when CN bought the SD60s they renumbered these to 5500 -5503 to bring them in line with the newer unit. Which looked totally different in the cab....Mainly locations of ditch lights number boards and windows.
Oh, OK thanks!
het Chris... another great series... i am going to assume that this is your personal layout.. what is the size of the layout? again kudos to Lela.. she did an outstanding job... it's cool to have your better half enjoying the hobby with you... thanks for sharing
vinny
Hi Vinny. Yes this is my layout. The room is 25x27. Lots of angles that makes the layout bigger than the round the wall. For example the Edmonton yard is 33ft long. I will pass on your comments to Lela. She is quite the gal. We just celebrated our 33rd anniversary.
Nice yard. That girl is a yardmaster. Nice video
Stevenson Adkins Thanks i will pass on your kind words to Lela.
nice Video and good job Lela ;)
Thanks from the both of us
I found it ironic that at 11:27 - 11:33 on-screen text says "Always fun at tie counting speed" and at 11:41 - 11:57 Engine sounds are saying "hurry on down" repeatedly.
Nature of those turbo charged SD 50s. They really ramp up with the weight
Great Series. Hope to see the other trains too. Krystal Springs Golf Club? I live in Crystal Springs, Mississippi. LOL. On the CN mainline.
Yes Krystal is my son's better half. It is fun to name the landmarks after family. CN in Mississippi. I will look it up on the google map.
The Illinois Center now CN mainline passes thru Mississippi. Runs parallel to Interstate 55. Crystal Springs is 25 miles south of Jackson, MS. Grew up watching IC, now watching CN. I miss the IC "Death Star" engines
The coal cars in this video are made by Atlas in HO Scale. They maybe available in other scales Pablo
Great video and great operation Chris!! I really enjoyed it. I would like to ask you one question, how do you work around the actual load of the cars?, I mean, do you just take the top off when the train gets to, say, Edmonton and then put it back on the cars on the coal mine or something like that? Thanks, kuddos to your wife and yourself, I haven´t been able to get my wife interested in the hobby :(.
Hi Victor. I have done what you suggest in the past, however it is easier to leave the loads in the existing loaded cars and re-stage the trains before each ops session.
Thanks for the info and again, great job!!!
Love the look of the layout! Can you please tell me what type and color ballast and ground cover materials you used.
Thanks
mike marino The ballast was a mix of light grey with some black cinders mixed in. Ratio was about 70% grey. The ground cover was sifted sand with no silica and microwaved sifted dirt. In addition celluclay was used and some unsented kitty litter to make the land forms over pink foam. Woodland scenics ground foam, fiber and static grass was also used.
Very nice series!!! how many years have you been working on it???
The railroad has been around now for 9 years.
Nice video. I really like the layout. It looks like a lot of fun to run.
What size is your layout/train room?
Thanks for posting.
Dave D Thanks Dave. The layout is in a 27 x 25 foot room. The design across the middle allows access to the diaganal from both sides and is 33 ft.
Well, it is really nice. You have it all including a winter scene. I really like the incline more then a helix. What is the elevation of the 2 decks from the ground?
Dave
Dave D The layout you are discussing must be a different one as there is no winter and it is single deck at 52 inches.
Yes, wrong post for your video, sorry.
Do you check all your rail cars wait before service?
Yes I do. I found recently that the weights for most rolling stock have been well within the NMRA standards. If not they are usuaklly light,. I just add pennies and glue them in with Houshold goop. For the hoppers I just add pennies under the loads. Works fine.
Thanks for your input.
I was also wondering if you find the right weight on the cars to help with tracking on your longer trains, as in the video they look great.
The right weight helps a great deal. If the cars are light for their length the chance of derailments increase. Also check your coupler heights and make sure the wheels are in gauge.