What an awesome stage for trains to run across! Sure hope the UP conductor was not hurt badly, however. Thanx for posting and for "taking the chance" of a BN Milw session, think it looked great. Rck
Just found you from Large home layout from a year ago and subscribed. What a spectacular layout. I think it’s the first time I’ve seen this area modeled and wow did you do a great job. It looks so real, I want to be a passenger. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Dean - Great job of bringing the Milwaukee Road and BN into the Oregon Joint Line operation. I enjoyed the train swap at Emigrant. Nice video ......... thanks! Mike
Yay another video! It's always fun to hear that Oregon Joint Line jingle. That poor caboose really got slammed around there. Anyway thanks for sharing, and hope to see more!
Wow! Brings back memories of my days at Washington State University (Go Cougs!) during the first years of the BN and the last years of the Milwaukee's Pacific extension. I hope you made a few videos of BN and MLW trains running uninterrupted over the layout.
I've always loved experimenting with swapping eras or even entire railroads on routes just to see what they'd look like with different rolling stock on the tracks. I guess you could say this scratches that itch. Also wow, there's a lot more people at these sessions than I thought.
Whew! Glad you made another video Concept is awesome. Very creative to freelance the trackage rights to fit the scheme. I know it was lots of work (and you prob don’t want to hear this-) but those BNs and MILW units look pretty sweet on your layout.....
Agree - at some point I'll probably bring the concept back for additional sessions. I was only 7 years old when the BN formed so my NP and GN memories are fairly dim.
Enjoyed the show. Being a GN fan, I wasn't sure about the BN merger. Intersting on the Milwaukie though. Not sure about the crews accent. Love to see your layout someday. Carl
Great video Mr. Ferris, I’ve enjoyed watching your other videos on yard operations. Have you thought about doing on for day a railfans perspective? Or one from a dispatcher perspective, with all the different trains that could run in a day, I believe that’d be fascinating
This was a lot of fun to watch, and it really makes me wish I had more space for my 1970's era "Southern Oregon and Pacific" freelance. One question: How does the car tab system work? It looks like the various tabs are color coded, is that for destinations?
thanks blaze, here's a description of my cartab system from OJL operator and real-life BNSF dispatcher Chris Palmieri meridianspeedway.weebly.com/car-tabs-on-np-oregon-joint-line.html
Say has the model railroader people ever do a story or have you and Oregon Joint Line layout in one of their books? it'll be cool to remodel your layout using base maps in Trainz. its Trainz a new era thou some people play TRS19. Just wondering cause it'll be cool to model after it. Also if you had more room would you add more to the layout? and if so what would you like to add to it?
Are there plans on adding just the trains and cars of the other two rail lines to run on the layout that you have now or are you planning to expand more on the layout
@BalticNotHudson I can see returning to the concept at some point. I need to make some adjustments to the scheme - the poor yardmaster at Monument was slammed.
Great lookin' layout .
Crazy as this sounds, I'd love to see some kind of full-blown lore video around the Oregon Joint Line and how it all came together in-universe.
Always good to see footage from your layout no matter what the session. Thank you for sharing.
What pleasant surprise to find on a Monday morning! Keep 'em coming!
What an awesome stage for trains to run across! Sure hope the UP conductor was not hurt badly, however. Thanx for posting and for "taking the chance" of a BN Milw session, think it looked great.
Rck
Great video! I was really excited to see it when it came out!
Always enjoy your videos. Gives me motivation when working on my layout
Great video, really enjoy your videos and operating sessions. Thanks for sharing. Dave
Just found you from Large home layout from a year ago and subscribed. What a spectacular layout. I think it’s the first time I’ve seen this area modeled and wow did you do a great job. It looks so real, I want to be a passenger. Thanks for sharing.
"Switching it up" keeps guys on their toes after a heavy Thanksgiving Day dinner!
Hope you and the crew are doing well and ready at the starting gate!
Wow thanks for sharing. I have been waiting for another one. Please keep them coming.
I love the narrative feel of your operations videos!
Hi Dean - Great job of bringing the Milwaukee Road and BN into the Oregon Joint Line operation. I enjoyed the train swap at Emigrant. Nice video ......... thanks! Mike
Thanks Mike!
Love your videos! Even better seeing the Milwaukee running!! Can’t wait to see more thanks
That's pretty dang cool! Even if I didn't get to see any SP gray...
Ghost of SP
Yay another video! It's always fun to hear that Oregon Joint Line jingle. That poor caboose really got slammed around there. Anyway thanks for sharing, and hope to see more!
It still looks like fun for the operators. Bob
That was cool! Thanks for sharing!
YES ! Awesome I’ve been waiting for another video for ever!!!!!
Sometimes the wait is the hardest part!
Really like the creativity on this operation... So glad to see Milwaukee Road being modeled.
I love that view along the canyons, may have to "borrow" it sometime.
"Looks like another 12 hour day on the UP", that UP engineer seems like a fairly downbeaten chap.
Wow! Brings back memories of my days at Washington State University (Go Cougs!) during the first years of the BN and the last years of the Milwaukee's Pacific extension. I hope you made a few videos of BN and MLW trains running uninterrupted over the layout.
N Scale has come a long way in
reliability!! Very nice layout!!
haha fantastic!
I've always loved experimenting with swapping eras or even entire railroads on routes just to see what they'd look like with different rolling stock on the tracks. I guess you could say this scratches that itch.
Also wow, there's a lot more people at these sessions than I thought.
agree! It was really fun seeing the BN and Milwaukee on the layout. We've had up to 16 guys at an op session, but typically more like 10-12.
Whew!
Glad you made another video
Concept is awesome. Very creative to freelance the trackage rights to fit the scheme. I know it was lots of work (and you prob don’t want to hear this-) but those BNs and MILW units look pretty sweet on your layout.....
Agree - at some point I'll probably bring the concept back for additional sessions. I was only 7 years old when the BN formed so my NP and GN memories are fairly dim.
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Enjoyed the show. Being a GN fan, I wasn't sure about the BN merger. Intersting on the Milwaukie though. Not sure about the crews accent. Love to see your layout someday. Carl
Hi my name is Neil schwerdt in west valley city, Utah. I have a question to ask you is your layout HO ?
You,ve done a great job 6/8/24😅
Sooooo any new videos? Missing your layout. Would love to see more.
Yay! Cascade Green! 🙃
Phenomenal :) 👍🏿
Another great video!
Now you need to figure out how to get the SOO involved..lol
Wyatt
well let's see - the SOO eventually bought the Milwaukee (but only after the Milwaukee pulled back from the Pacific Coast).
Can you please do a video going into more detail about your car tab system?
Here's a nice write up a friend of mine did on my car tab system meridianspeedway.weebly.com/car-tabs-on-np-oregon-joint-line.html
Any way we can see the UP Emigrant job on video?
Must be nice to have friends who give you locomotives (plural) for christmas haha.
Great video Mr. Ferris, I’ve enjoyed watching your other videos on yard operations. Have you thought about doing on for day a railfans perspective? Or one from a dispatcher perspective, with all the different trains that could run in a day, I believe that’d be fascinating
yes, I have been thinking about doing one in the style of all those Virtual Railfan live streaming cameras that have been popping up on TH-cam
This was a lot of fun to watch, and it really makes me wish I had more space for my 1970's era "Southern Oregon and Pacific" freelance. One question: How does the car tab system work? It looks like the various tabs are color coded, is that for destinations?
thanks blaze, here's a description of my cartab system from OJL operator and real-life BNSF dispatcher Chris Palmieri meridianspeedway.weebly.com/car-tabs-on-np-oregon-joint-line.html
Say has the model railroader people ever do a story or have you and Oregon Joint Line layout in one of their books? it'll be cool to remodel your layout using base maps in Trainz. its Trainz a new era thou some people play TRS19. Just wondering cause it'll be cool to model after it.
Also if you had more room would you add more to the layout? and if so what would you like to add to it?
Thanks - if I had more room I would probably just spread everything out and make the industries bigger.
WILL OREGON JOINT LINE COMING BACK TO TH-cam - I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS. P
PLUS TRYING TO SEE WHATS THE NEW BN YOU CHANGING
Great stuff!
I'd love to see more videos of this 70s session of you have them. Primarily because I model both the BN & MILW in that era.
Are there plans on adding just the trains and cars of the other two rail lines to run on the layout that you have now or are you planning to expand more on the layout
this was a one time deal - we'll be back to the NP and GN from here on out
@BalticNotHudson I can see returning to the concept at some point. I need to make some adjustments to the scheme - the poor yardmaster at Monument was slammed.