Your layout is definitely one of my favorites. So much switching! After seeing your layout in person, you have captured 1973 very well. Thanks for Sharing!
@muchfunwithtrains
5 ай бұрын
Glad you're enjoying it. It's definitely a switching layout, that's for sure. Even though we seem to run so many mainline trains, too! What's with that? :)
@IMRROcom
6 ай бұрын
Always fun to watch the ops events, Thanks. I did see the Blue LD car this time around too.
@muchfunwithtrains
6 ай бұрын
Thanks! For anyone wondering what he's talking about, the blue "Lost Dutchman" (LD) boxcar is lettered for the HO scale layout of the same name in Phoenix, AZ, USA. It's a great layout, and I have several waybills billed to fictitious locations on it, in addition to the boxcar.
@wakun6784
5 ай бұрын
literally my favorite era of bn you have captured it so well on your layout props to you chap!
@muchfunwithtrains
5 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! I like to joke with people that we've been enjoying switching cars on the BN in Interbay (Balmer) yard (40 years!) for 15 years more than the actual BN did (25 years)! And for sure the early years were the most colorful and interesting, not that I have anything against SD60M's... :)
@wakun6784
5 ай бұрын
youre very welcome!!! love watching your content keep it up good sir!!
@fascination.sound.and.groove
6 ай бұрын
*Great video. Fantastic. Many greetings from a BN fan from Germany* . 👍👍👍 Hambug, Andre 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃
@muchfunwithtrains
6 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for your comment!
@LisbonRailProductionsandF1
6 ай бұрын
Magnificent catches of the model trains coming by and pass, I like it 5 stars. Thumbs up. Keep up the perfect work, my friend, liked and subscribed, Greetings from Portugal to the USA.
@muchfunwithtrains
6 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it. Welcome aboard!
@LisbonRailProductionsandF1
6 ай бұрын
@@muchfunwithtrains Thanks, my pleasure.
@LisbonRailProductionsandF1
6 ай бұрын
@@muchfunwithtrains i have some cool videos that you will enjoy a lot.
@ronaldrondeau7870
6 ай бұрын
Thanks again Burr, great OPS, by the wa all my turnouts are equiped with colored pins that help very much to view the way the switch is trown. Thanks again
@muchfunwithtrains
6 ай бұрын
Glad to help. I got the idea from Al Frasch who got it from somebody else. You could probably use small nails and just paint the tops of the nail heads, or glue small colored jewels on them, instead of such those brash round pins. But it does help to keep the levers off the ground, and to help people see what they're doing.
@ronaldrondeau7870
6 ай бұрын
@@muchfunwithtrains I found them in a craft store, just havr to cut the pin for the lenght i need and have the colors to
@jimd.6152
6 ай бұрын
Nicely done video. Belated Happy Birthday.
@muchfunwithtrains
6 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks!
@joelwillstein9906
6 ай бұрын
Just an outstanding and fun presentation operation video. I really enjoyed it.
@muchfunwithtrains
6 ай бұрын
Thanks, but sorry about the low quality audio in the middle of the video. I thought I was using a microphone, but it was actually my earbuds giving the signal. Then I was too lazy to re-record it, choosing instead to get it published quicker. Oh, well. Hopefully my next video will be more consistent in the audio quality.
@Ken-Kaef
6 ай бұрын
Loved the "rainbow bridge" 😄 Quite unique.
@muchfunwithtrains
6 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! We banged our head into the reverse loop one too many times, and decided to put it on hinges so it could swing up out of the way when not in use. Then somebody suggested painting it like a rainbow, and we did!
@Ken-Kaef
6 ай бұрын
Thanks for the explanation. Happy birthday for when ever it was.😀 Cheers Ken@@muchfunwithtrains
@muchfunwithtrains
6 ай бұрын
Thanks Ken!
@BaronvonBavert
6 ай бұрын
great OP ...👍🤟
@muchfunwithtrains
6 ай бұрын
Thanks, and glad you enjoyed it!
@MikeG42
2 ай бұрын
That was a fun video to watch. Lots of cool trains and rail ops going on. I hope you have a hand held vacuum cleaner in case that rock train derails.
@muchfunwithtrains
2 ай бұрын
We do, but you're right by implying that it makes more sense not to have open loads running around. More recently I did a video on vacuuming up a mess here :kzitem.info/news/bejne/rWeBvIOhfH-XZ2U
@blackhillsandeasternrailroad
5 ай бұрын
Once again, great video, Burr! A question, then a couple comments ... You referred to the limestone train as a MILW train, but it is running with all GN equipment? Did I miss something? If I ever made it out to operate with you, I'd love to run the 'Jet Job'. First heard about this 15 or 20 years ago and what a fun concept... I have a job planned on my layout that (someday) will go off by itself and run for an hour or two without bothering anybody else, like your Jet Job! 28:12 Grain train at Delta - Underrated shot! I love how it doesn't look like the engines are moving much, but the cars keep coming around the corner in the distance.
@muchfunwithtrains
5 ай бұрын
Good question, and thanks for your comments! The short answer is that MILW used ore cars from several roads in their waning days. I already have more of the GN cars than I need, so I put them on this train. But then the question still remains of why don’t I put MILW power on that train? I think next time we will! I just hadn’t thought of doing that until you asked your question. So, thanks for that! :)
@JohnS-jj9by
6 ай бұрын
Happy 70th birthday! Enjoyed the video. Really like all the F units and merger partners intheir original paint. I'm curious about your benchwork, especially the rainbow bridge. Is the bridge 2 glued layers of 1/4" Masonite?
@muchfunwithtrains
6 ай бұрын
It's 2 layers of 1/4" luan plywood. I cut a bunch of pieces of 1/4" (5mm?) plywood into two inch wide arcs of my 28" minimum radius curve, and then used that as a base for laying track over foam scenery, without other benchwork by glueing two pieces together with staggered joints, as many as it took for whatever curve I was building. For example, the "Index loop" is a full turnback curve laid directly on top of extruded foam that is sitting on angle brackets screwed into the the studs in the wall. For the rainbow bridge, the turnback curve was originally fixed in place as a duckunder, but after enough skull-banging incidents, I cut it in two parallel lines and installed hinges so we could swing it up to the ceiling. I was just lucky there was enough room, because I didn't originally design it to do that. There are a couple of places where I intend to eventually build curved trestles, so I left them as one layer of the plywood supported but not glued to the second layer, and installed the track section over that to be removable when the time comes. In once case, this was 20 years ago and I still haven't gotten "a round tuit" yet! But the mainline has stayed open for business generating revenue...
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