Operations on the Railroad- Explained and Demonstrated
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- This video has a description of the operating methodology I'm using on my Clear Lake Timber Company logging-based model railroad. It is a somewhat simplified variation of the classic "car card and waybill" system. The system and methodology are explained, and we can follow along to watch the highlights of the operations on a typical operating day. No pen or pencil need be lifted!
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I love that fact your railroad has a actual purpose for use , and not just a roundabout run in circle layout that everyone believes they need . This is perfect with fantastic buildings and modeling.
Love your setup, Carl
Incredible scenery and work
Now that's MY kind of video game!!! I'm gleaning a lot of ideas from you for my On30 RR based on logging & copper mining in 1910's SE Missouri. I have desperately bought up several engines as a shortage seems imminent. You have shown me how to distribute them. The Forney will draw from the exchange track at the lower yard level. The Porter will be the switcher at the Log camp & feed side-dumpers to & from the Mine. The 2-truck Heisler will pull log cars over switchbacks & downhill to the sawmill.
thank you for great detail video
You and Laurie McLean MMR are the model railroaders that captivate me because of your craftsmanship. I'm excited to have just found TwoFootCal too.
Parabéns, Carl!
Nice explanation of your ops session. Thanks for sharing. Dave
Great scenery. Enjoyed the explanation of your card system, and really liked the Weyerhaeuser locomotive. Never saw one of those before this
Really like your railroad. Was made aware of your channel through Uncle Wilmer. Late 19th and early 20th century railroads, in particular narrow gauge.
Enjoyed it, thanks for sharing
What a wonderful layout, Carl. I really like the scenery, it looks so realistic. Here one can see, how much talents are included in the hobby. All the best from Spain.
Fernando, thank you for the kind words. Greetings from USA!
This is great Carl. I just found your channel. Great layout. Cheers from Australia.
G'day, Peter! Thanks for the kind words. Cheers from USA!
Absolutely love your layout, coming from WV I love to logging railroads in action, I am course as to your locomotive collection, looked to be some brass, but could be wrong. Thanks for sharing. Look forward to more.
Kyle, thanks for the kind words. Actually, there is no brass on the layout currently. The Shays are from Bachmann, and the Heisler is from Rivarossi. I do have a DCC-equipped brass 0-6-0 switcher which could rotate onto the layout from time to time, but was not there for the video. I also have a brass Northwest Short Line 2-6-6-2T locomotive that awaits DCC installation, so it is not yet in service. Hopefully its time will come eventually, and then it would be the "queen" of the loco fleet. The next video will be about the construction of a steam locomotive kit (a 20-some year old Bowser 0-4-0 switcher kit). This is a time-consuming project, so it is taking a while. Just preparing for assembly of the valve gear now.
Hey Carl, that's a superb layout you have there, the scenery and buildings are expertly done. Found your waybill system very interesting, you've kept it simple compared to some I have seen, yet effective and interesting for running ops. Got my thinking cap on now, to try implement some of those ideas into my small shunting/switching layout. Great upload, have subscribed etc, all the best. Brian @ The Angels.
Brian, thanks for the kind words. I was able to keep the waybill system simple due to the layout's shipping requirements also being simple. Most of my operations are essentially switching operations moving cars to and from the interchange track. So the stack of waybills generates traffic, and then the movements themselves are pretty straight-forward. Some similar scheme may very well work for your switching layout. If you have point-to-point movements on the layout it might need to be a little more sophisticated. Cheers! Carl.
Very nice. Relaxing to watch. Life was lived at a much slower pace in those times. Not a big fan of the hustle n bustle of modern society.
‘I,m thinking those three truck shays might be Bachman did you install stay Alive they sure run great. Nicest logging layout I,ve seen. Thanks Tom McInerney owner of my HO ELk River Logging layout. Railroad Model Craftman march 2006. Thanks tom
Tom, thanks for the kind words. Yes, you're right, the Shays are Bachmann. They have Tsunami II decoders. I tried to fit CurrentKeepers in there, too, but there just wasn't enough room in that tiny tender. So they just have to live with the little capacitor that came with the decoders. Luckily, they are still pretty good runners.
we really wish you could do some youtube how to videos, especially on that grass and dirt. do you use some real dirt augmented by static gress and woodland scenics bushes and trees. do you use an airbrush to get you effects. Ive never done an airbrush but am willing to learn... about to do my first youtube videos, but am really at the beginning of my new trainboard....you do fantastic stuff, with exemplary detail. gary j
Gary, I don't consider myself any kind of expert on scenery techniques. My "construction" video does show the process I used. The basic scenery construction went something like this- The basic landforms are extruded foam board, carved/cut to shape. Then a coat of dirt-colored paint onto which I sprinkled Woodland Scenics fine ground foam. The texture was then built up with coarser ground foam. Most importantantly, the heavy texture on my forest floor is a scenic produce from Scenic Express called Flock & Turf Scenic Texture, in a couple of variations (Dead Fall Forest Debris, Dark Adirondack Blend, and Green Adirondack Blend). This stuff was like magic. Small bushes are from various Woodland Scenics products, and the "pine" trees are from Coastmans (a material kit). That's the essence of it.
Just beginning to decorate my new o gauge trainboard, needing hills, valleys, mountains to get away from my very flat trainboard. 18 by 27 ft, o gauge, but cant reach may of the central areas. did you use plaster on cardboard strips for your hills...did 2 mountins and a few rock molds years ago. Ive never did foam for hills and mountains, thinking I could build on my workbench on a piece of foamboard then move it when done to the main trainboard. help gary j
Hi, Gary. Sorry for the delay in response, but I was on vacation. I used extruded foam insulation board exclusively for all of the landforms, i.e. the blue or pink sheets you can find at the big box stores. I stacked them up and carved them to shape. See my "construction" video for more about this. I was able to do some finishing on sections of hillside at the workbench. I like it due to no hassles with plaster and the light weight. I only have a couple of rock castings, and they are not plaster, either, but rather are a rubber product I got from Scenic Express. They cut with a knife and worked out very well, I think. Best wishes on your scenery construction.
Wow, Carl... that's a pretty accurate setup, almost exactly how waybills were handled before computers. The railroads had thousands of clerks just to manage the waybill tracking!
I have to ask...Do you have cards for mechanical "Bad Orders"? I didn't notice if your layout had a RIP track, but boxcars will need a place to repaired... door rollers are notorious for breaking. Not to mention, you have a brewery, so cars will certainly need to be spotted for cleaning! (poor train handling causes broken beer bottles!)
Toz, yes I do have bad order cards. They came with the commercial product that gave me the other forms. I have a couple of tracks behind the engine house (the house tracks extend out the back) that could serve as RIP tracks. There's even an overhead hoist there. So far I haven't formalized any methodology for using them that way, though; right now that space is just used to store a few extra cars for which there is no other place to store them. So "part of the scenery". But who knows how things could evolve as they mature.....
Carl, Looks like you are using electrofied magnets to uncouple. If I got that right, looks like they work well. Just started watching your site, will have to pass info along to the club. I know they would like the slow speeds and your scenery. Some of the members use the same type cards, while others are using switch list for beginner secessions. Thanks for the video.
Bill, Yes I do use stock Kadee under-track electromagnets. I did install the capacitors that the Kadee instructions labeled as optional, because I figured "why not?" I have found that they do work well. Mine are powered by an 18 VAC transformer that also powers my Soundtraxx programming booster. The couplers really "snap" open. I gave up on using above-the-track permanent magnets due to all the false uncouplings I got if a little bit of coupler slack happened at the wrong time. Much better with a ramp that is "dead" until you want it. It does take forward planning, though, due to the need to cut the holes in the roadbed before track laying. While my ramps do what they need to do, I have found from experience that a couple more in certain locations would have been a good idea.
@@CarlBrainerd Thanks for the info. I plan on using electromagnets on my next layout. I think the picks are hard on older cars and I am now packing my train stuff up, due to a move back east. Thanks again, it felt good running the switchback, in another of your post. None of the of the other layouts I ran on had them and I missed mine. Stay safe; you and yours have a great holiday season.