Hi, Tim. Another good video! I’ve said this before, I really appreciate the realism you put into your layout. I also appreciated how you spotted the head cement car inside the loadout. So many modelers I watch will, say, have something like a grain elevator. Their track will only hold about five cars and they’ll put all five cars on the track irrespective of where the loading spout is. Or in the case of your cement loadout, they may have a track capacity of, say, four cars; they put all four cars in the track. I realize their just having fun, but it kinda bugs me. Oh well, enough said! I enjoy watching your layout!
Enjoyed watching your operating session. I appreciated your narrative explaining each step of the way showing how the train crew would go about their work. Your layout's scenery, those weathered GP30's and rolling stock certainly contribute immersive feel of the operating session. Great video! Thank you! Bill B.
One practice I follow from the prototype which slows the switching process is a "safety stop" when coupling to a car or cut of cars. The engine and any cars will make a complete stop about one carlength from the car to be coupled, before continuing to the actual coupling. My understanding is that this move has two main reasons. First, it allows a conductor.brakeman riding the loco or end car to move to the ground safely to oversee the coupling or to release handbrakes. Second, the stop allows more precise control of the coupling speed to minimize any impact damage. No need, of course, in modeling ops, though it makes a coupling more a "kiss" than a "slam:.
Each railroad addresses this move differently. On NS, a safety stop is required when coupling to cars on the mainline or an industry. In the industry the conductor needs to do a C100 inspection before coupling to the equipment to make sure everything is disconnected from the cars and that the cars are properly secured and there is no damage or the wheels are off the rails. You also need to make sure no wheel chocks are under the cars and no dock boards are in the cars along with no blue flags. A safety stop is also required one car length from the end of any stub ended track. Everywhere else the conductors can ride to a coupling. They can remain on the engine when coupling to cars and when riding on cars they can drop off one car length away prior to impact. They are supposed to advise me when they will get down so I can make sure I have the speed below 4mph. On my ProtoThrottle I actually have them programmed to run 2.5 mph in notch 1. That’s about the speed I normally would get the prototype to when making an actual coupling.
another nice switching vid tim... and hey any chance you could doing some vids of you working your NS road switcher (NS rules permitting of course) ... i really hate that during my time of railroading that it was just way too early as far as the technology and the electronics goes, that stuff just wasn't available back in 1993... cell phones with cameras and social media didn't happen until 10 years later and more... and by that time i had quit the railroad
Tim, thanks for another great video! Have been enjoying and learning from this series. One question, since you don’t show it in the videos, what do you use to uncouple the cars? Thanks, Rudy
Great layout. When you worked R50 I noticed you pulled only the empties, then went back for the loads. Any reason not to pull all the cars and put the empties back?
Thanks! I rotated the stock at R50. I shoved four empty cars by on the main. Then I reached inside and came out with everything which was four loads and two empties on the rear. Then I coupled to the four empties on the main. When I went back in to spot the six empties, this put the two empties that was behind the four loads on the headend of the track so they would get loaded first.
Amazing operation and switch performance. Phenomenal backdrop. Real as it gets. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Very nice. Looking forward to watching the next session. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks! Stay tuned!
Hi, Tim. Another good video!
I’ve said this before, I really
appreciate the realism you put
into your layout. I also appreciated how you spotted the head cement car inside the
loadout. So many modelers I
watch will, say, have something
like a grain elevator. Their track
will only hold about five cars and they’ll put all five cars on the track irrespective of where
the loading spout is. Or in the case of your cement loadout,
they may have a track capacity
of, say, four cars; they put all
four cars in the track. I realize
their just having fun, but it kinda bugs me. Oh well, enough
said! I enjoy watching your layout!
Thanks! I try to make my layout operations as real as possible.
Great session Tim. Good copy of the switch list too on the community board like you said I use on similar. Enjoyed it,
Thanks! I appreciate it.
Really really helpful Tim. Great video.
Thank you!
Enjoyed watching your operating session. I appreciated your narrative explaining each step of the way showing how the train crew would go about their work. Your layout's scenery, those weathered GP30's and rolling stock certainly contribute immersive feel of the operating session. Great video! Thank you! Bill B.
Thanks! I appreciate it.
Thank you very much!
Very informative on how to do a simple operation. Love the GP30'S.
Fun video... Good work making those joints nice and slow and then giving them a tug to make sure the pins dropped. I'll be watching next week!
Thanks! I appreciate it.
Thank you for sharing.👍
Thanks for watching!
One practice I follow from the prototype which slows the switching process is a "safety stop" when coupling to a car or cut of cars. The engine and any cars will make a complete stop about one carlength from the car to be coupled, before continuing to the actual coupling. My understanding is that this move has two main reasons. First, it allows a conductor.brakeman riding the loco or end car to move to the ground safely to oversee the coupling or to release handbrakes. Second, the stop allows more precise control of the coupling speed to minimize any impact damage. No need, of course, in modeling ops, though it makes a coupling more a "kiss" than a "slam:.
Each railroad addresses this move differently. On NS, a safety stop is required when coupling to cars on the mainline or an industry. In the industry the conductor needs to do a C100 inspection before coupling to the equipment to make sure everything is disconnected from the cars and that the cars are properly secured and there is no damage or the wheels are off the rails. You also need to make sure no wheel chocks are under the cars and no dock boards are in the cars along with no blue flags. A safety stop is also required one car length from the end of any stub ended track. Everywhere else the conductors can ride to a coupling. They can remain on the engine when coupling to cars and when riding on cars they can drop off one car length away prior to impact. They are supposed to advise me when they will get down so I can make sure I have the speed below 4mph.
On my ProtoThrottle I actually have them programmed to run 2.5 mph in notch 1. That’s about the speed I normally would get the prototype to when making an actual coupling.
Thanks another great ops
Thanks for watching!
This series is so interesting! Definitely helpful for realistic operations!
Thanks!
Very interesting ideas.
Thanks!
Thanks!
AWESOME SIR!!! Gonna love this series too! - Gary
Thanks Gary!
Very interesting.
Thanks!
THANK YOU THE VIDEO
Thanks for watching!
Love your little ops videos! 👍
Thanks!
You,ve done a nice job on your layout.
I'm from West valley city, Utah.
MRL/ man Neil schwerdt 😊
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Always great video
Thanks!
another nice switching vid tim... and hey any chance you could doing some vids of you working your NS road switcher (NS rules permitting of course) ...
i really hate that during my time of railroading that it was just way too early as far as the technology and the electronics goes, that stuff just wasn't available back in 1993... cell phones with cameras and social media didn't happen until 10 years later and more... and by that time i had quit the railroad
Thanks! Wish I could but we can’t.
Tim, thanks for another great video! Have been enjoying and learning from this series. One question, since you don’t show it in the videos, what do you use to uncouple the cars? Thanks, Rudy
Thanks! I use a Kadee uncoupling pic. Also a bamboo skewer will work as well.
@@SeaboardCentral thanks!
Great layout. When you worked R50 I noticed you pulled only the empties, then went back for the loads. Any reason not to pull all the cars and put the empties back?
Thanks! I rotated the stock at R50. I shoved four empty cars by on the main. Then I reached inside and came out with everything which was four loads and two empties on the rear. Then I coupled to the four empties on the main. When I went back in to spot the six empties, this put the two empties that was behind the four loads on the headend of the track so they would get loaded first.
@SeaboardCentral Ok now I understand. Thanks
I know you work for the railroad do you do some job for the werewolf in tallapoosa Georgia or Bremen Georgia
I work out of Chamblee