I learned a lot about the methods local trans use to switch plants by watching these. Didn't know they'd back an entire, lengthy train into an old factory siding to pick up a car. Love the colorful array of lengthy trains blowing through towns on the main.
Only recently discovered model railroad videos on the internet. I 've seen some beauties and this one ranks right up there, guys. Love it. Love the color contrasts. The red Kansas City Eastern scheme on the GP30 is something I'd consider for all your KCE locos. Also, this is the first layout that concentrates on industrial switching that I've come across. Looks like the railroad re-did the roadbed since the last installment I saw (Switching Lewiston Part II). Love the visits by the big road freights - evens it out. Thanks. I haven't been in the hobby in 24 years and this is most enjoyable - almost like having my own layout again. This one si the best of the layouts I've so far seen.
hi Jason.. all i can say is "it's about time you've done an OP vid" very enjoyable & realistic to watch.. more of these would be appreciated .. Thanks for sharing.. vinny
Thanks Vinny. I do them when I can, like I said, these take time and often I don't have the time to get one put together. HOWEVER, I do have another in the works and it's going to be a little on the different side. So there's another coming in a week or two.
This Is The First Model Railroad I Have Seen Built w/ Grain Elavators & Graineres Looks Awsome,Being Raised In Alberta Canada They Used To Be Along Side Every Track In Every Little Town & Village
Nice proto freelance idea and execution. The details and colors on your locomotives are realistic and believable. I'm working on something similar with my SPSF merger. Great job.
I've only seen IC deathstars 1029 and 1006 on the CN, very very rare! also last month I caught 2 IC blue devil's on 1 train leading a CN intermodal! Very nice video
Nice video, Jason! I did notice that that high cube gondola bringing up the rear had brass axles. Brass axles are associated with..... plastic wheels! Say it isn't SO, Ethel!
Great OPS video Jason!! Love that nickname "Xtra Reliable". :D Sick lashup on that intermodal with the IC/CN units! Also what a duo to start the video!! That'd be a neat pair to see for real...oh wait...CN repainted all 4 of the Demo SD70ACe-P6's. :P Like those BN trailers in there.
Thanks Dan! I had to do some research on Frisco to find out what variety of orange they used on that paint scheme, and happened to find a pic of the real U-boat that had the "XR" on it, it was a one off unit. But yeah, the IC/CN and the MoPac trains, I saw the guys running them and had to include them here.
You know what sounds better? At my train club their a section where two tracks cross. We call it the cross track. Anyways, when we have a passenger train going over it, at pretty high speeds, it sounds amazing!
Does someone load the empties after they are spotted? Why doesn't the main street crossing lights work? Should the train whistle for the crossings while they are switching cars? Are 2 of the empty gons lettered for Indiana Harbor Belt? I like the fact that KCE still uses cabooses. Thank you for the explanations. I like to see the switching videos that you put out. I am waiting to see the train action on the new sections of the railroad that you showed before.
Nice switching area. The gon switching could have been handled a bit different. You had the gons connected to units so there was no need to set them out on side track. Just go in, grab loads, set them over, spot Mty's, then go get loads. Whomever paints the clubs equipment does a real nice job. Where is club at?
Hi Jason, here is my opinion why we like seeing your ops sessions, IDK if anyone has told you but they are like a How To Do ops sessions and your club layout is so beautiful to see even if I see certain parts often I still enjoy watching your videos, got a few questions: What do you use as operations: car-card, paper list from real switching or from imagination, often notice you mute the sound on engines would be nice to hear them as they move around, is all your engines have plastic railing or most of them have painted brass or steel like Athearn blue box that is what I love about them.
KEWEL! As always, enjoyed the video! I like the branchline and the Lewiston street crossing? (if I said that right?) the way it crossed the street 2wice!
I love operations videos - too many times I see beautiful layouts here on YT but never see the trains run. Nice trackwork - whose double slip switches are those? Code 83 by any chance?
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it. The club specifies code 100 track, that way anyone can run anything without the risk of flange issues. The double slips are from Peco... in fact all turnouts are Peco as per club standards.
Couplers work basically the same way as the real ones. Push two cars together and they couple themselves. Uncoupling requires you to do it by hand, I just edit out my hand coming into view, grabbing the cars and uncoupling them.
Couplers work basically the same way as the real ones. Push two cars together and they couple themselves. Uncoupling requires you to do it by hand, I just edit out my hand coming into view, grabbing the cars and uncoupling them.
No, there was never such a thing as an SD30. Back in 1963 when the 2250hp GP30 first came out, it was only about a year or two later when the 2500hp GP35 and SD35 debuted. EMD just never saw a need to design, develop and produce a six axle, 2250hp "SD30," when the SD35 had 2500hp.
By pressing the direction button on our hand held controllers? Or do you mean how do two loco run together while one is backwards? It's all controlled through the decoders we put in the locos. Put the two units on the track, call up their numbers on the controller, hit the directional button on the unit that is in reverse so it runs the same way as the other, then consist the one in reverse to the first unit, then you can run them both together.
Yes, and no. KCE is my fictional railroad, but it's a small class 1. It operates roughly 7000 - 8000 miles of track. So a bit larger than KCS, but approximately 14K miles less than NS (smallest of the "Big 4"). Here's a video I posted last year on the history of the KCE: th-cam.com/video/TLBO1-tvcsM/w-d-xo.html
@@RailfanJason It is in the center of the image, just on the underside of the bridge. As the two locomotives pass beneath the bridge, it descends on its web down to track level, to the right of the locos.
I would like to see a human hand from time to time in order to reinforce the scale we are dealing with. You see people often on the set, but why not show someone picking up a unit from time to time to really know scale.
I learned a lot about the methods local trans use to switch plants by watching these. Didn't know they'd back an entire, lengthy train into an old factory siding to pick up a car. Love the colorful array of lengthy trains blowing through towns on the main.
Loved the switching moves. I also like the power on the other trains that passed, nice array of power. Liked the "B" unit in the Railbox train.
The weathering of those tank cars at 6:26 is the most realistic I've ever seen! I got dirty just looking at them!
Yeah they did come out pretty good. Thanks!
The weathering on that wood industry at 15:45 is top notch. Kudos!
Yeah it came out really nice. Wish I could say I did it, but another member of the club did that one.
Only recently discovered model railroad videos on the internet. I 've seen some beauties and this one ranks right up there, guys. Love it. Love the color contrasts. The red Kansas City Eastern scheme on the GP30 is something I'd consider for all your KCE locos. Also, this is the first layout that concentrates on industrial switching that I've come across. Looks like the railroad re-did the roadbed since the last installment I saw (Switching Lewiston Part II). Love the visits by the big road freights - evens it out. Thanks. I haven't been in the hobby in 24 years and this is most enjoyable - almost like having my own layout again. This one si the best of the layouts I've so far seen.
very realistic .love the length &speed of the train.it's like bring there.Great track work.
Thanks William. Try to be as real as possible, glad you enjoyed it!
Wow, that was awesome! I wish I was a member of that club!
hi Jason.. all i can say is "it's about time you've done an OP vid" very enjoyable & realistic to watch.. more of these would be appreciated .. Thanks for sharing.. vinny
Thanks Vinny. I do them when I can, like I said, these take time and often I don't have the time to get one put together. HOWEVER, I do have another in the works and it's going to be a little on the different side. So there's another coming in a week or two.
This Is The First Model Railroad I Have Seen Built w/ Grain Elavators & Graineres Looks Awsome,Being Raised In Alberta Canada They Used To Be Along Side Every Track In Every Little Town & Village
wonderful layout. enjoyed watching all of your videos. very professionally produced.
Thank you David, appreciate it.
Nice proto freelance idea and execution. The details and colors on your locomotives are realistic and believable. I'm working on something similar with my SPSF merger. Great job.
Wow, thanks, appreciate that. Modern day SPSF would be kinda neat. ACe's and GEVOs in the Kodachome Scheme...
Wonderful rail movie !!! Excellent
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
I've only seen IC deathstars 1029 and 1006 on the CN, very very rare! also last month I caught 2 IC blue devil's on 1 train leading a CN intermodal! Very nice video
Yeah, in the passed 4 or 5 years I've been railfanning, I've seen one or two IC units. Super rare to find these days. Thanks!
Good job!! Very realistic, thanks so much for your time to share with us.
Thanks William! Was my pleasure, glad you enjoyed it.
You keep rolling them out, superb videos!
Nice video, Jason! I did notice that that high cube gondola bringing up the rear had brass axles. Brass axles are associated with..... plastic wheels! Say it isn't SO, Ethel!
Looked so real . . . Thanks for the view . . .
Another enjoyable operation session. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks, glad you enjoy these!
Nice to see that you still use cabooses.
@ 17:04...must be FRIDAY... going for the quit...he's really ramming 'em in there...cool vid
Great OPS video Jason!! Love that nickname "Xtra Reliable". :D Sick lashup on that intermodal with the IC/CN units! Also what a duo to start the video!! That'd be a neat pair to see for real...oh wait...CN repainted all 4 of the Demo SD70ACe-P6's. :P Like those BN trailers in there.
Thanks Dan! I had to do some research on Frisco to find out what variety of orange they used on that paint scheme, and happened to find a pic of the real U-boat that had the "XR" on it, it was a one off unit. But yeah, the IC/CN and the MoPac trains, I saw the guys running them and had to include them here.
Nice To See Some CN Iron Workin !!!
4:26 that sound
Jason, Officially the Frisco used a color something like Chevy engine red. However, it did not take long for it to fade to "Competition" orange.
2:19, i love that kind of crumbling sound? Im not the only one?
You know what sounds better? At my train club their a section where two tracks cross. We call it the cross track. Anyways, when we have a passenger train going over it, at pretty high speeds, it sounds amazing!
Does someone load the empties after they are spotted? Why doesn't the main street crossing lights work? Should the train whistle for the crossings while they are switching cars? Are 2 of the empty gons lettered for Indiana Harbor Belt? I like the fact that KCE still uses cabooses. Thank you for the explanations. I like to see the switching videos that you put out. I am waiting to see the train action on the new sections of the railroad that you showed before.
The reason the train didn't whistle for the crossings is that those loco's do not have sound.
thumbnail looked like it was real
Nice switching area. The gon switching could have been handled a bit different. You had the gons connected to units so there was no need to set them out on side track. Just go in, grab loads, set them over, spot Mty's, then go get loads. Whomever paints the clubs equipment does a real nice job. Where is club at?
Has this layout ever been in a Model Railroad magazine?
Hi Jason, here is my opinion why we like seeing your ops sessions, IDK if anyone has told you but they are like a How To Do ops sessions and your club layout is so beautiful to see even if I see certain parts often I still enjoy watching your videos, got a few questions: What do you use as operations: car-card, paper list from real switching or from imagination, often notice you mute the sound on engines would be nice to hear them as they move around, is all your engines have plastic railing or most of them have painted brass or steel like Athearn blue box that is what I love about them.
I thought the piggybacks would always go before the intermodal cars/well cars.
KEWEL! As always, enjoyed the video!
I like the branchline and the Lewiston street crossing? (if I said that right?)
the way it crossed the street 2wice!
Thanks! Yeah, that's the double Main Street crossing in the north end of Lewiston. Glad you enjoyed it!
Thats the best video.
What brand are the GP-30s? I was just at a club (videos coming in a few minutes) of KCS and a lot of the engines were GP-30s and had sound.
These are Proto2000 units. They were produced before sound was a thing, so they aren't set up for it.
Ahh
:D
I love operations videos - too many times I see beautiful layouts here on YT but never see the trains run. Nice trackwork - whose double slip switches are those? Code 83 by any chance?
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it. The club specifies code 100 track, that way anyone can run anything without the risk of flange issues. The double slips are from Peco... in fact all turnouts are Peco as per club standards.
how'd u make the empty and the loaded cars couple and uncouple
Couplers work basically the same way as the real ones. Push two cars together and they couple themselves. Uncoupling requires you to do it by hand, I just edit out my hand coming into view, grabbing the cars and uncoupling them.
Couplers work basically the same way as the real ones. Push two cars together and they couple themselves. Uncoupling requires you to do it by hand, I just edit out my hand coming into view, grabbing the cars and uncoupling them.
What kind of engine is the Rio Grande 5307? An SD30?
Yes, both of those black and silver Rio Grande units are variations on an SD30. Those are going to be repainted as KCE's at some point.
Very cool. Were the SD30s a real locomotive? All I can find are CP's SD30-ECOs
No, there was never such a thing as an SD30. Back in 1963 when the 2250hp GP30 first came out, it was only about a year or two later when the 2500hp GP35 and SD35 debuted. EMD just never saw a need to design, develop and produce a six axle, 2250hp "SD30," when the SD35 had 2500hp.
thants for the vido it was good to watch it and it look amaze 🚄🚅🚇🚧🚏
Impressive
Nice vid
Thanks.
how do you get the locomotive to run in reverse?
By pressing the direction button on our hand held controllers? Or do you mean how do two loco run together while one is backwards? It's all controlled through the decoders we put in the locos. Put the two units on the track, call up their numbers on the controller, hit the directional button on the unit that is in reverse so it runs the same way as the other, then consist the one in reverse to the first unit, then you can run them both together.
is that an SD-30T-2 ??????
Yes. Well, it's been updated to Dash 3 specs now. So it's an SD30T-3.
is kce your shortline?
Yes, and no. KCE is my fictional railroad, but it's a small class 1. It operates roughly 7000 - 8000 miles of track. So a bit larger than KCS, but approximately 14K miles less than NS (smallest of the "Big 4").
Here's a video I posted last year on the history of the KCE:
th-cam.com/video/TLBO1-tvcsM/w-d-xo.html
Anyone else notice the spider? 7:21 if you missed it.
Don't see it. Where is it in the image?
@@RailfanJason It is in the center of the image, just on the underside of the bridge. As the two locomotives pass beneath the bridge, it descends on its web down to track level, to the right of the locos.
I would like to see a human hand from time to time in order to reinforce the scale we are dealing with. You see people often on the set, but why not show someone picking up a unit from time to time to really know scale.
boy would i like to do a Godzilla dance on your set.... lol
CXS
thants for the vido it was good to watch it and it look amaze 🚄🚅🚇🚧🚏