This is my away-from-home terminal. Cool video. I've been going there almost 15 years and I still learned a couple of things about the yard from your video.
Man everything you post is so informative and interesting... please keep up the great work but stay safe... I just love your stuff!!! Cheers from Melbourne Australia!!
Cool stuff. The CB&Q, and later BN operated a traditional "hump" in Lincoln, NE and in "the old days" the RR didn't care if you parked in the employee lot and watched the hump action. Lots of fun back when I was a teen age model railroader. Thanks for your comments on the video. It's interesting to hear from someone wo is a real railroader and also a modeler.
Geez! I just downloaded a PRR brochure on this yard about a week ago. It appears to be from the early to mid 60s and shows the yard layout, pictures and both the eastbound and westbound humps. It's touted as the "World's largest Push-Button Yard - Speeds Freight Train Schedules". All the tracks were there back then, as the cover has a plane's height view of most of the yard. I didn't realize you hauled that far from your more usual PA zone. Nice drone vid!
Frank, Conrail took 4 hump out of service in the 1990's before NS took over. When the PRR expanded this yard in the 1950's adding the second hump, it did become the largest automated push button yard in the nation. I believe the "largest" title now goes to Bailey Yard in North Platte, NE.
What a great and so interesting video DJ. That is a massive operation. Great job on the narration. Thank you for making these great videos, takes me away from all the bad news lately.
I had the opportunity to see the Hump operation at Bailey Yard last year at Rail Days. The Bus tour takes you under the Hump so that you get to experience all the sights and sounds up close.
Awesome video! Thanks. A person could go bankrupt modeling that entire yard. It does give a few ideas for my layout yard. Thanks again. Cheers 🍻 , Patrick
Great video as usual. I’ve wanted to model a hump yard for years, and I’m finally putting together a permanent layout with one in the plans. It’ll be tight, but I’ll fit a small one in there. Your videos have been a great help and have given me several good ideas. Thanks, and keep up the good work.
Very cool video! Massive yard.I used to go to CSX's Osborne yard in Louisville, Ky sometimes to watch the trains being humped but it's no longer being used as a hump yard.
My freind just sold me a 1977 lionel 027 rocky mountain special featuring a hump yard ( never out of box till i bought it to make my coal mine layout...9×9 above my coal bin and a 20'x3' shelf for a staging area). Love the drone shots!! BRILLIANT TOOL FOR MODEL RRING!! GREAT CHANEL!
I helped attempt a hump yard in HO a while back. We had the grade as usual but we glued a bit of swishy foam between the rails to press against the axles to slow them down that way. We had to move onto a different area before it could be finished so it wasn’t quite perfect but it was a start
I got to take a tour of the UP Bailey Yard, in North Platte, NE. It also is huge, with two hump yards, one to the east and one to the west. It also contains a large loco servicing facility. I went up in the tower, while the hump yards are managed. Big yards like this are worth a trip. Sometimes the NMRA arranges trips for members--that's how I went. Part of the trip involved a bus tour of places most people don't get to see. The bus drove to a place next to one of those retarders (or whatever they are called), and you're right about the noise. Inside the bus, it was loud, but tolerable. Outside you would have needed ear protection. Great video. Thanks for that.
Wow that is impressive! Thanks for that and all your drone work. I always look for you and your auto in every drone vid...a thought, perhaps you have you and car in each one somehow, kinda like Hitchcock in his movies...or an easter egg as in video games...Look for DJ and his car! I digress...love the videos. Thanks DJ...John
I saw a Lionel based hump yard modeled by a fellow at a show in North Plate Nebraska a couple of years ago. It was not huge but he did have retarders that he built from scratch. Very cool
That's a good video of a hump in action. So cool that you can film this. 👍 I think our hump here in Elkhart is maybe twice as big. It's been around for ever also.
I grew up in Freedom, PA one town down from Conway. y house overlooked the Yard. y grandfather worked there from 1922 to the late 70's before he was forced to retire. I sill live only 7 or 8 miles away.
I grew up in BeaverFalls which is not too far from Conway. As a kid I always liked when we drove by because the rail yard was so big. It was a sea of blue Conrail engines and cabooses back then. My childhood memory may not be correct, but in my mind there used to be more than one hump in that yard. Anywho my father always kept a half tank of gas in our car because he was always ready to flee north to the fallout shelter in Wampum just in case the nuclear power plant (shipping port) had a meltdown, or if WW3 ever started, he was sure the rail yard at Conway would be the target of a nuclear missile! Those were days eh?
So I have a question for you DJ. So if the engineer is driving the train and needs to do some personal business in the restroom in the engine. How does he relieve himself when hes supposed to be driving the train? Does the conductor take over while he does his business? Or does he just have to hold it?
In the old days the conductor would sometimes take over. Now, with in cab cameras, we hold it and pray that we stop at a signal. Either that or just wait until we get to a bathroom because the locomotives toilets are usually disgusting.
Dry Hill Model Railroad Club had a jump yard controlled by air maybe 15 years ago and this past year they built a new one controlled with these brush-like things in the track that control the cars.
Southern Pacific used to have a huge operation in Eugene Oregon, complete with hump yard and car shop, and engine shops with a turntable. After being acquired by Union Pacific, that had large facilities in Portland only 90 miles away, the facility was gutted. It is barely a wide spot any more.
Great video! I would like to get some information on how the sequence of locomotives work: Train arrives in the receiving yard > main engines leave > switchers take over….
Correct. Inbound crews that came from New Castle or Connellsville end their trip here. Cars get put into receiving tracks, yard crews do the switching.
I have friends that live in Leetsdale. The first time I ever visited them I notice how their whole house vibrated from the trains, they live right off RTE 65. Guess after 40 years of living there it wasn’t even noticed anymore by them.
Wonderful video. Hope you’re doing well with covid-19! Thanks for still uploading through this. It’s giving me something to watch. Lol. I wouldn’t be surprised if they ripped up a couple of tracks there, or close it all together. It’s kind of insane what NS is doing these days. Oh well. - Micah
This is the second largest railroad classification yard in the United States in Conway Pennsylvania, along the Ohio River, behind Bailey Yards just west of North Platte Nebraska. Bailey Yards is measured 8 miles in length which is 31,500 linear miles of tracks and two humps, one for eastbound and the other is westbound. The Conway Yards is measured 4 miles in length, which is about 16,000 linear miles of tracks. The northbound does have a hump, and the second hump for the southbound is currently under construction. Both can have more then 10,000 cars that parked on the numerous tracks daily. Bailey Yards is owned by Union Pacific Railroad, and Conway Yards is owned by Northern & Southern Railroad.
Great video Dj. Hope you and your family are all keeping well? Love the hump as it reminds me of when we had them in the uk 🇬🇧 One particulate one was in Sheffield Yorkshire called Tinsley. They had a master and slave too push the loose wagons over the hump. They where class 13 shunters converted from class 08 shunters with the slave had its cab cut off lol 😂 They've all gone now 😩 Cheers Stevie 😎🇬🇧
NS has totally renovated Conway yard. It was a whole different place when I used to visit it in the 1990s. Back then we got permission and were told we were ok as long as we stayed on the paved roads which we did. We ran into the bull but luckly we already had permission. Lots of old retired pre-CR units were still dead lined there and still got to see pre CR freight cars still in service. The office guy we got permission from said Penn Central automated the hump yard. NS had removed the east hump.
This yard back in the day was the biggest in the country until UP built North Platte yard....this yard used to have 2 humps shortly after NS took over they tore out one of the humps....during Conrail this yard was jam packed.....not anymore this is a sad looking yard compared to the old days
I just dropped a comment that I downloaded a PRR brochure last week of Conway in the late 50s or sometime in the 60s. I can clearly see the two separate humps you mention.
Absolutely positively phenomenal overhead video.... been in and around the Conway yard before when and after new facilities were being built. Always impressive thanks for your presentation. If you are doing yard presentations, please consider the Glenwood Yard AVR/CSX over in the Glenwood section of Pittsburgh. I interesting to see you discus the various traffic flowing thru the facility. Always looking forward towards your next video.
Glad you enjoyed it. I worked Glenwood in 1999-2000. It was crappy, but AVR did an outstanding job on it. I recently filmed the mon con roundhouse, but didn't go any further east to get glenwood. Maybe if the weather gets better next week, I'll try.
djstrains Ok great. DJ Always great to hear from you. Like you I model URR, along with other Pittsburgh Railroads. Your input is highly valued , especially the protype operations & industries in Pittsburgh. Thanks again.
DJ ..... the Lehigh and Keystone Valley Railroad Museum has an operating yard that is designed from the prototype yard in Allentown, PA. Check out their youtube and facebook pages. They even use air to operate the switches for quick snaps and air to slow the cars as they roll.
At 0:21, you can see the brick building located in front of the white maintenance building. My last time I drove by the Conway Yard in early 1990's, I took a photo that I keep downloaded in my computer and every new computer I've had since. They kept the old red "PRR" symbol on the front of that building. It was a big symbol. I got your email address off your YT page & I'll send you a copy of that photo. It's a great photo to have as your wallpaper. Is that old PRR symbol still on that building? I'd drive the 1 1/2 hours to see it again.
Had the pleasure some years ago of visiting Monaca, WV which is just across from that Conway yard. That facility is a real monster, seems to go forever along the OhioRiver. Lots of trains travel down the Ohio side of the river. Thanks
djstrains......Monaca was a nice little community. I was part of a team (USACE and WVDOT) looking for public port sites in that area and there was a promising site near Monaca. And of course we visited the dish plant😀 BTW, what railroad or railroads used the Conway yard before the mergers took place? Thanks.
djstrains.....I am old enough to remember seeing a lot of the PRR in NJ and PA and remember that sad day that they collapsed. Being in Huntington, WV, I see my share of both CSX and NS with occasional CN run throughs. Be safe DJ.
Awesome video Dj!!! You mentioned that you haven’t seen anyone model a hump yard..if you go on TH-cam there is an old modelrailroader video that has an Ho layout with a operating hump yard...the name of the video you should look up is modelrailroader video layout your # 2
Years and years ago (as in several decades) Model Railroader magazine had an article about building a hump yard that used vibrating rails to push the cars along. Unfortunately I had to get rid of my collection a while back so I don't have info about the issue number or year published.
That s so cool to see, I've watch the jump yard in Colton CA when it was SP and the tourded the SF the yard in Barstow, they are something to say the least , but I don't think they are near that big...thanks for sharing....Jack 👍I've heard someone modeled UP in n scale yard but haven't seen it...
What are Slug Sets attached to the locomotive? This was very cool, anyway to zoom in closer from a different angle when the cars are released on the Hump? Very cool, and the yard is amazing!
Woah!! the Conway yard looks Desolate since conrail ran it. It use to be a double hump looking at it now they only hump the west and they tore down the roundhouse but the table still there 😪
Although not a modeler I really enjoyed this video (and wished it was longer). One question....in trucking when we "dump" air there are no brakes. the air forces them open for movement. If you lose air your brakes lock up. Trains the opposite?
@@djstrains Got it. Interesting. Trucks also use air pressure to slow down but use spring loaded air chambers for parking. Once the spring is set, the only way to release the trailer to free wheel is by adding air from the tractor or manually disconnect the spring. Bottom line...rail cars have no parking brakes! Got it. Thanks man. Admirer and subscriber. Larry
Hi from the UK, a quick question: when watching a lot of US videos, it's common to see engines from different railroads on the same train (In the video there are NS & CN). How is that worked out? Who decides which locos from which companies go on a train, which company provides the crew etc?
Most of the time it is just easier to leave foreign power attached for a round trip then switching it out. The "Power bureau" keeps track of mileage, hours, repairs, etc. Sometimes railroads lease engines from others, as well. It makes no difference to the crew. I have other videos on this, but all engines have the same general controls. Sometimes the only thing thats different is the paint scheme.
DJ: There is a MA model group that has a working hump yard, that displays at the Big E in Jan./Feb. each year. They use brushes on the tracks to slow the cars.
You mention having never seen a hump yard modeled in any scale. Back in the 1980's or early 90's I remember an article in one of the model mags about an HO scale layout that had a working hump yard, right down to the retarders! Those were done with little air jets between the tracks that he could give a puff of air to slow the speed. I used to keep and catalog all my RR magazines, but can't find any reference to that one, but I do see an N-Scale one described in N-Scale magazine in the Jul/Aug '94 issue.
So impressive ! If you are interested in getting some information on other American railyards check out the book north American railyards , Michael Rhodes, lots of maps and pictures.
dj - you mention all cars going over the hump have their air bled out of the braking system. I understand what you mean at a general level, and why that's done, but does that mean the air reserve on each car has been emptied? If so, how long does it take to recharge all the cars on a train so it is ready to go? It would seem like quite while for a train of 150 or more cars.
Hi DJ. I know you regularly go through Connellsville. I spent the first 8 years of my childhood in that area (some 55 years ago) and family still lives there. Is the yard there worth a drone visit? If not, I understand. It is long past its heyday.
Hump Yard done by APN model RR Cllub was at 2018 national NMRA convention there is a You Tube video. Uses air pressure to slow the cars.
Drone Photography & Video, Have revolutionized Railfanning & Model Railroading. Excellent Video !!!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is my away-from-home terminal. Cool video. I've been going there almost 15 years and I still learned a couple of things about the yard from your video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Joe, where is your home terminal? I work in the engine house at Conway.
@@RWSBaden I'm out of Mansfield.
And I work Conway East.
I Spy 2 types of coil steel cars, I spy slugs. Good stuff
First time I've seen this yard. It probably would never have happened without you and your Drone! Thanks for doin this!
My pleasure
Man everything you post is so informative and interesting... please keep up the great work but stay safe... I just love your stuff!!! Cheers from Melbourne Australia!!
I appreciate that
Thank you kindly for the video - the size of US yards is just amazing.
Cool stuff. The CB&Q, and later BN operated a traditional "hump" in Lincoln, NE and in "the old days" the RR didn't care if you parked in the employee lot and watched the hump action. Lots of fun back when I was a teen age model railroader. Thanks for your comments on the video. It's interesting to hear from someone wo is a real railroader and also a modeler.
Geez! I just downloaded a PRR brochure on this yard about a week ago. It appears to be from the early to mid 60s and shows the yard layout, pictures and both the eastbound and westbound humps. It's touted as the "World's largest Push-Button Yard - Speeds Freight Train Schedules". All the tracks were there back then, as the cover has a plane's height view of most of the yard.
I didn't realize you hauled that far from your more usual PA zone. Nice drone vid!
Frank, Conrail took 4 hump out of service in the 1990's before NS took over. When the PRR expanded this yard in the 1950's adding the second hump, it did become the largest automated push button yard in the nation. I believe the "largest" title now goes to Bailey Yard in North Platte, NE.
Ive worked for ns for 27 years. Now out of Norris yard in Birmingham Alabama. Csx rice yard is a big un too!
Always a great way to start the day, with DJsTrains!!
You got that right!
What a great and so interesting video DJ. That is a massive operation. Great job on the narration. Thank you for making these great videos, takes me away from all the bad news lately.
Love these yardvideos. Great service including a map ! So inspiring.
I had the opportunity to see the Hump operation at Bailey Yard last year at Rail Days. The Bus tour takes you under the Hump so that you get to experience all the sights and sounds up close.
Makes me want to move to Pennsylvania.great stuff
Awesome video! Thanks. A person could go bankrupt modeling that entire yard. It does give a few ideas for my layout yard. Thanks again. Cheers 🍻 , Patrick
You're very welcome!
Cool post, been by this yard several years ago, did not realize how big it is. Thanks for posting.
wow, that is crazy impressive, thank you!
Glad you liked it!
Great video as usual. I’ve wanted to model a hump yard for years, and I’m finally putting together a permanent layout with one in the plans. It’ll be tight, but I’ll fit a small one in there. Your videos have been a great help and have given me several good ideas. Thanks, and keep up the good work.
Excellent. Addictive. Great gentle knowledgeable narration. Thank you for your efforts.
So nice of you
Nice video. I understand that at one time, it was the largest yard in the world.
That was a really good shot of that yard
Awesome video, I remember getting a tour of the place back in the 90’s when it was conrail with the model railroad camp I attended as a kid
WHAT A GREAT EXPERIENCE!
Thank you D.J.. I always enjoy your videos.-Bob
Glad you like them!
Nice drone shots DJ, and yes a lot of modeling possibilities, very interesting video, stay safe & virus free, take care DJ. 😎👍👍👍🛤🚂
Thanks, you too!
Very cool video! Massive yard.I used to go to CSX's Osborne yard in Louisville, Ky sometimes to watch the trains being humped but it's no longer being used as a hump yard.
My freind just sold me a 1977 lionel 027 rocky mountain special featuring a hump yard ( never out of box till i bought it to make my coal mine layout...9×9 above my coal bin and a 20'x3' shelf for a staging area). Love the drone shots!! BRILLIANT TOOL FOR MODEL RRING!! GREAT CHANEL!
Seen a hump yard on someone's layout on TH-cam last year. Also remember seeing a hump yard on a video back in the eighties. There are a few out there.
I helped attempt a hump yard in HO a while back. We had the grade as usual but we glued a bit of swishy foam between the rails to press against the axles to slow them down that way. We had to move onto a different area before it could be finished so it wasn’t quite perfect but it was a start
I got to take a tour of the UP Bailey Yard, in North Platte, NE. It also is huge, with two hump yards, one to the east and one to the west. It also contains a large loco servicing facility. I went up in the tower, while the hump yards are managed. Big yards like this are worth a trip. Sometimes the NMRA arranges trips for members--that's how I went. Part of the trip involved a bus tour of places most people don't get to see. The bus drove to a place next to one of those retarders (or whatever they are called), and you're right about the noise. Inside the bus, it was loud, but tolerable. Outside you would have needed ear protection. Great video. Thanks for that.
As an employee in the yard I can say this was a very accurate description.
Wow that is impressive! Thanks for that and all your drone work. I always look for you and your auto in every drone vid...a thought, perhaps you have you and car in each one somehow, kinda like Hitchcock in his movies...or an easter egg as in video games...Look for DJ and his car! I digress...love the videos. Thanks DJ...John
hahaha, I like.
Great video.
Glad you enjoyed it
Hi DJ, It's neat to see Conway from the Drones point of view, thanks for sharing the video. Cheers, Rich S.
Thank you for all your help, my friend. Feel free to answer any comments that I can't.
I saw a Lionel based hump yard modeled by a fellow at a show in North Plate Nebraska a couple of years ago. It was not huge but he did have retarders that he built from scratch. Very cool
Thank you DJ for another great video which was excellent for modelling ideas.No I’m not going to build a hump yard!!!😃
Really nice video. Such a big yard.
Enjoy the hump yard while you can, I read something recently that they are slowly going away
Hi Timothy, what would they be changing to? And how does it work?
Thanks for your answer.
Take care with covid-19, be SAFE.
Saludos = cheers
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hunter harrison when he was alive with csx, shut down almost all our hump yards and had us flat switch.
@@djstrains plus the business has changed, intermodal has increased and you don't jump that. Regular carloads aren't as common
That's a good video of a hump in action. So cool that you can film this. 👍 I think our hump here in Elkhart is maybe twice as big. It's been around for ever also.
Pp
I knew an SP engineer in Fresno, Calif. who modeled N scale using code 55 & 40 rail and had a working hump yard !!
I grew up in Freedom, PA one town down from Conway. y house overlooked the Yard. y grandfather worked there from 1922 to the late 70's before he was forced to retire. I sill live only 7 or 8 miles away.
I grew up in BeaverFalls which is not too far from Conway. As a kid I always liked when we drove by because the rail yard was so big. It was a sea of blue Conrail engines and cabooses back then. My childhood memory may not be correct, but in my mind there used to be more than one hump in that yard. Anywho my father always kept a half tank of gas in our car because he was always ready to flee north to the fallout shelter in Wampum just in case the nuclear power plant (shipping port) had a meltdown, or if WW3 ever started, he was sure the rail yard at Conway would be the target of a nuclear missile! Those were days eh?
So I have a question for you DJ. So if the engineer is driving the train and needs to do some personal business in the restroom in the engine. How does he relieve himself when hes supposed to be driving the train? Does the conductor take over while he does his business? Or does he just have to hold it?
In the old days the conductor would sometimes take over. Now, with in cab cameras, we hold it and pray that we stop at a signal. Either that or just wait until we get to a bathroom because the locomotives toilets are usually disgusting.
@@jm0lesky Man that's gotta suck.
100% correct
All points north model railroad club in Conroe ,tx. Has a hump yard that weights cars and uses compressed air as retarder fo speed.
Great pictures of a great yard
You should take the drone over the top of Bailey Yard in North Platte, NE. That place is huge.
1,000 miles away from my current location. But if you'd like to donate to my PayPal for gas, lol.
Dry Hill Model Railroad Club had a jump yard controlled by air maybe 15 years ago and this past year they built a new one controlled with these brush-like things in the track that control the cars.
ooh the Conway yard. It's impressive even to drive past.
Southern Pacific used to have a huge operation in Eugene Oregon, complete with hump yard and car shop, and engine shops with a turntable. After being acquired by Union Pacific, that had large facilities in Portland only 90 miles away, the facility was gutted. It is barely a wide spot any more.
Great video! I would like to get some information on how the sequence of locomotives work:
Train arrives in the receiving yard > main engines leave > switchers take over….
Correct. Inbound crews that came from New Castle or Connellsville end their trip here. Cars get put into receiving tracks, yard crews do the switching.
I have friends that live in Leetsdale. The first time I ever visited them I notice how their whole house vibrated from the trains, they live right off RTE 65. Guess after 40 years of living there it wasn’t even noticed anymore by them.
Wonderful video. Hope you’re doing well with covid-19! Thanks for still uploading through this. It’s giving me something to watch. Lol. I wouldn’t be surprised if they ripped up a couple of tracks there, or close it all together. It’s kind of insane what NS is doing these days. Oh well. -
Micah
I'm still healthy. Lost a friend of 25 years to the virus. Please be safe as well, my friend.
This is the second largest railroad classification yard in the United States in Conway Pennsylvania, along the Ohio River, behind Bailey Yards just west of North Platte Nebraska. Bailey Yards is measured 8 miles in length which is 31,500 linear miles of tracks and two humps, one for eastbound and the other is westbound. The Conway Yards is measured 4 miles in length, which is about 16,000 linear miles of tracks. The northbound does have a hump, and the second hump for the southbound is currently under construction. Both can have more then 10,000 cars that parked on the numerous tracks daily. Bailey Yards is owned by Union Pacific Railroad, and Conway Yards is owned by Northern & Southern Railroad.
At 5:00, that's me getting off the 9505 and throwing the switch from 17 Track to 8 Track!
Thank you for watching my video. Please be safe. I'll be on the other side of the Ohio river from you, flat switching in Aliquippa, lol.
Dang! I knew it was big but I didn't know it was that big!
Wow!!!!! This is amazing!!!
Thank you so much!!
Great video Dj. Hope you and your family are all keeping well? Love the hump as it reminds me of when we had them in the uk 🇬🇧 One particulate one was in Sheffield Yorkshire called Tinsley. They had a master and slave too push the loose wagons over the hump. They where class 13 shunters converted from class 08 shunters with the slave had its cab cut off lol 😂 They've all gone now 😩 Cheers Stevie 😎🇬🇧
NS has totally renovated Conway yard. It was a whole different place when I used to visit it in the 1990s. Back then we got permission and were told we were ok as long as we stayed on the paved roads which we did. We ran into the bull but luckly we already had permission. Lots of old retired pre-CR units were still dead lined there and still got to see pre CR freight cars still in service. The office guy we got permission from said Penn Central automated the hump yard. NS had removed the east hump.
last time I was in conway, there were alcos and even photoed a PC F7 number 1865.
just after CR.
That was great!!!!!!
I attended a show some years ago that had an O scale two rail layout with a working hump yard, but it had no retarders.
oh they're using those slugs with the engines too!
I believe David Stewart's Appalachian and Ohio has an working hump yard with working retarders in o scale 2-rail. Very impressive.
This yard back in the day was the biggest in the country until UP built North Platte yard....this yard used to have 2 humps shortly after NS took over they tore out one of the humps....during Conrail this yard was jam packed.....not anymore this is a sad looking yard compared to the old days
I just dropped a comment that I downloaded a PRR brochure last week of Conway in the late 50s or sometime in the 60s. I can clearly see the two separate humps you mention.
Absolutely positively phenomenal overhead video.... been in and around the Conway yard before when and after new facilities were being built. Always impressive thanks for your presentation. If you are doing yard presentations, please consider the Glenwood Yard AVR/CSX over in the Glenwood section of Pittsburgh. I interesting to see you discus the various traffic flowing thru the facility. Always looking forward towards your next video.
Glad you enjoyed it. I worked Glenwood in 1999-2000. It was crappy, but AVR did an outstanding job on it. I recently filmed the mon con roundhouse, but didn't go any further east to get glenwood. Maybe if the weather gets better next week, I'll try.
djstrains Ok great. DJ Always great to hear from you. Like you I model URR, along with other Pittsburgh Railroads. Your input is highly valued , especially the protype operations & industries in Pittsburgh. Thanks again.
Very cool informative these are neat yards too see
Glad you enjoyed
DJ ..... the Lehigh and Keystone Valley Railroad Museum has an operating yard that is designed from the prototype yard in Allentown, PA. Check out their youtube and facebook pages. They even use air to operate the switches for quick snaps and air to slow the cars as they roll.
thanks for sharing
Wow! We have some big rail yards here in New Zealand, but nothing like that! Thanks.
Thanks for watching
Used to be even bigger. The East hump is no longer used.
At 0:21, you can see the brick building located in front of the white maintenance building. My last time I drove by the Conway Yard in early 1990's, I took a photo that I keep downloaded in my computer and every new computer I've had since. They kept the old red "PRR" symbol on the front of that building. It was a big symbol. I got your email address off your YT page & I'll send you a copy of that photo. It's a great photo to have as your wallpaper. Is that old PRR symbol still on that building? I'd drive the 1 1/2 hours to see it again.
Had the pleasure some years ago of visiting Monaca, WV which is just across from that Conway yard. That facility is a real monster, seems to go forever along the OhioRiver. Lots of trains travel down the Ohio side of the river. Thanks
Monaca, Pa is where I work. Its downsized but here is a video of it. th-cam.com/video/PXC6EuWGwyQ/w-d-xo.html
djstrains......Monaca was a nice little community. I was part of a team (USACE and WVDOT) looking for public port sites in that area and there was a promising site near Monaca. And of course we visited the dish plant😀 BTW, what railroad or railroads used the Conway yard before the mergers took place? Thanks.
@@richarddrum9970 Conway was conrail, penn central and prr
djstrains.....I am old enough to remember seeing a lot of the PRR in NJ and PA and remember that sad day that they collapsed. Being in Huntington, WV, I see my share of both CSX and NS with occasional CN run throughs. Be safe DJ.
Awesome video Dj!!! You mentioned that you haven’t seen anyone model a hump yard..if you go on TH-cam there is an old modelrailroader video that has an Ho layout with a operating hump yard...the name of the video you should look up is modelrailroader video layout your # 2
Years ago in model railroader someone had a layout with a hump yard
Years and years ago (as in several decades) Model Railroader magazine had an article about building a hump yard that used vibrating rails to push the cars along. Unfortunately I had to get rid of my collection a while back so I don't have info about the issue number or year published.
That s so cool to see, I've watch the jump yard in Colton CA when it was SP and the tourded the SF the yard in Barstow, they are something to say the least , but I don't think they are near that big...thanks for sharing....Jack 👍I've heard someone modeled UP in n scale yard but haven't seen it...
I'm a big fan of the loco with 2 slug sets.
I believe that 40-2 was remotely controlled as seen by the unit on the cab . Anyway good pictures for model railroading.
That place is huge
last year at the amherst show in Springfield mass. one of the clubs had a hump yard. at lease 30ft long
Nice vid D. J.
Great video DJ as usual, I just wish you would have shown more of the turn table and buildings there.
High winds, I was pretty far away and didn't want to risk losing it.
@@djstrains no problem. Understand that. Any chance you will be going back there for more drone footage. You do a great job.
@@mikeschmidt5328 weather permitting. But honestly, there is no good, safe, nearby location to take off from.
What are Slug Sets attached to the locomotive? This was very cool, anyway to zoom in closer from a different angle when the cars are released on the Hump? Very cool, and the yard is amazing!
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How did this video slip past me! the 15th was my birthday! Ha! great dronework like always DJ!
Happy birthday!
I was here in December and saw 3 trains racing at me at one time
Recently I got a Quadruple train meet here
Thank you
Are the engines put in storage eventually put back in service, or is this the last step before they are gone? Or is it a little of both? Thanks!
We hope that one day engines would be back in storage, but today, ya never know. Greed is using less engines to pull more cars.
Woah!! the Conway yard looks Desolate since conrail ran it. It use to be a double hump looking at it now they only hump the west and they tore down the roundhouse but the table still there 😪
Although not a modeler I really enjoyed this video (and wished it was longer). One question....in trucking when we "dump" air there are no brakes. the air forces them open for movement. If you lose air your brakes lock up. Trains the opposite?
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@@djstrains Got it. Interesting. Trucks also use air pressure to slow down but use spring loaded air chambers for parking. Once the spring is set, the only way to release the trailer to free wheel is by adding air from the tractor or manually disconnect the spring. Bottom line...rail cars have no parking brakes! Got it. Thanks man. Admirer and subscriber. Larry
Hi from the UK, a quick question: when watching a lot of US videos, it's common to see engines from different railroads on the same train (In the video there are NS & CN). How is that worked out? Who decides which locos from which companies go on a train, which company provides the crew etc?
Most of the time it is just easier to leave foreign power attached for a round trip then switching it out. The "Power bureau" keeps track of mileage, hours, repairs, etc. Sometimes railroads lease engines from others, as well. It makes no difference to the crew. I have other videos on this, but all engines have the same general controls. Sometimes the only thing thats different is the paint scheme.
@@djstrains Thanks for that
Great D.J.! Quick question... is there a chain link fence around that whole place or are individual parts of the yard fenced off separately?
This yard is not fenced off....other than route 65 on one side and the Ohio River on the other side
Just wanted to clarify for modelling purposes...👍
I am in a HO scale model train club and we are making a hump yard
DJ: There is a MA model group that has a working hump yard, that displays at the Big E in Jan./Feb. each year. They use brushes on the tracks to slow the cars.
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You mention having never seen a hump yard modeled in any scale. Back in the 1980's or early 90's I remember an article in one of the model mags about an HO scale layout that had a working hump yard, right down to the retarders! Those were done with little air jets between the tracks that he could give a puff of air to slow the speed. I used to keep and catalog all my RR magazines, but can't find any reference to that one, but I do see an N-Scale one described in N-Scale magazine in the Jul/Aug '94 issue.
Hi there, i am doing a video about conway yard and im wondering if i could use some of your drone footage in my video with credit?
email me: djstrains@yahoo.com so I can send you footage.
A few people i've seen on youtube have modeled working hump yards in HO
Bro, your vids are killer! Thank you for the great work you do ....totally enjoy them. What drone are you using please?
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So impressive ! If you are interested in getting some information on other American railyards check out the book north American railyards , Michael Rhodes, lots of maps and pictures.
Fantastic. Those slugs are somethin'. Don't see those out West and I've never seen those replicated by model manufacturers either. Have you?
not modeled enough
nice one tks
Thanks for watching
dj - you mention all cars going over the hump have their air bled out of the braking system. I understand what you mean at a general level, and why that's done, but does that mean the air reserve on each car has been emptied? If so, how long does it take to recharge all the cars on a train so it is ready to go? It would seem like quite while for a train of 150 or more cars.
first thing is temperature. The colder, the longer. on a 150 car coal train, from zero in the summer may take 10 minutes. in the winter, 45 minutes.
Hi DJ. I know you regularly go through Connellsville. I spent the first 8 years of my childhood in that area (some 55 years ago) and family still lives there. Is the yard there worth a drone visit? If not, I understand. It is long past its heyday.
Last summer I filmed some, and I plan on doing more. th-cam.com/video/MuVRAg3HS-4/w-d-xo.html