Morning Stampede On The Mainline

Its another busy day in the morning hours. Manifest freights running back to back, coal trains running all over for more loads of the black diamond that powers the country and a busy mainline local that never rests. We have some new power running today and some nice new additions to the layout!

[@HaroldAlexis-bb8sd]

I have had such a great journey watching this beautiful layout freight trains & engines Of CSX. Happy Holidays to you. 👍🤗🎄🛤️🛤️🚦🚦🚥🚥

[@edduke8527]

Fantastic weathering on those CSX units. Great job

[@centralfloridarailroadmodelers]

Thank you very much!

[@davidbrown4823]

Very interesting video on a nasty weather day.

[@discgolfillustrated2640]

Very realistic, excellent visual display, ty 👍🏼

[@centralfloridarailroadmodelers]

Glad you like it!

[@CSXGirl822]

Just found this channel thanks to the CSX Model Railroaders group on Facebook, I only wish there was a club that had a layout like this in my area! Looking forwarding to seeing more!

[@eliabraham6918]

Great video. It was very nice to watch Happy Holidays

[@paulbackenstose3384]

Question---does the yard switcher actually classify cars from the 2 trains or does it just "cherry pick" cars for the main line local from the 4 tracks of cars?

[@centralfloridarailroadmodelers]

for filming sake, we cherry picked on the video. In our actual ops sessions, there are 4 manifests that arrive in Livingston yard throughout the day plus coal trains, and cars are classified and blocked into other trains. Trying to film our actual ops sessions proved to be way too involved and grinded everything to a crawl, so here for our videos we are making I guess you can call it a "simulated" ops session from how it really operates.

[@paulbackenstose3384]

@@centralfloridarailroadmodelers Thanks for your reply. I'm trying to figure out the complexities of your operations on your beautiful layout. I'm glad to see a club that actually does operations, not just running trains in circles. Do you have staging tracks?

[@centralfloridarailroadmodelers]

@@paulbackenstose3384 Our operations are very much involved and complex. This layout was designed for operations and great care was taken to ensure a challenge would always be at hand. Many hours and careful planning were taken to allow a number of scenarios. Trust me, the possibilities are endless with this layout. Spending 10+ hours operating on any given day is common. Yes, we have a hidden staging yard. I do suggest that you watch our layout tour video for footage of the staging yard.