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cnwtrain
Приєднався 19 кві 2009
As you can tell, I like railroading. Have allot of other interests, such as music. Rock & roll, pop and easy listening from the 50s to the present. Favorite era is the 70s. ELO is favorite group of all times. Like football mostly the NFL. And like airplanes. Finally love the outdoors, live by the Gulf of Mexico. Life is good.
Відео
Layout Update December 2024 - Lift Out Part 1
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Working on a lift out section behind the yard. Upgrading the scenery adding some detail.
Marshalltown Switching Pt 4
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The 4th and final part of the series of switching the Marshalltown industrial area.
Marshalltown Switching Pt 3
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The 3rd part in our series switching the industrial area of Marshalltown. Putting cars into the ADM Plant and Whites Trucking Company.
Marshalltown Switching Pt 2
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Part 2 switching Marshalltown industrial area.
Marshalltown Switching 10 24 Pt 1
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Watching a couple of Geep 9s switching Marshalltown industries.
Zito Yellow PS Covered Hopper
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A look at the finished custom painted zito yellow PS covered hopper
Farnhamville Local Switching Part 3
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Checking out Farnhamville after dark. Part 3 of the local switching operation in Farnhamville.
Farnhamville Local Switching Part 2
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2nd part of switching in Farnhamville.
Switching a Local July 2024
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Update on the CNW Zito yellow custom paint, and some switching operation in Farnhamville.
July 2024 Update
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Working on custom painted CNW PS covered Hopper Zito Yellow. And watching a couple train run byes.
Track Side June 2024
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CNW action on my fictitious Cedar Valley Subdivision HO scale model railroad.
As memory serves me correctly, this is a model TRAIN layout, not a model scenery layout! Keep on doing what you do well. It's about doing it YOUR WAY! If they don't like it? Who cares!
You and your crew do it well! Great job! Please keep the videos coming as it's obvious you have a great eye for detail and the talent you guys have shows! Keep it going!
Was this HO or N scale ?
HO scale
Another great switching session! I enjoyed following along.
Thanks for the video's through out the year,your lift out looks great,Have a Happy New Year
Thanks for watching. Yes, another year in the books, time goes to fast.
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Looks great, someday could you give a video of your entire layout. It's one of my favors. Again ,great job.
I think maybe I need to do a quick overview. It has been a long time since I have done a tour. Many things have changed since the last one. Thanks for your comment and interest.
Thx for the quick update. Nice work on the lift out section. I like how projects can come and go and it's okay!
Another year came and went. Just like the projects, thanks for taking a peek.
The pasture looks great and nice work on that fence. Looks real good and obviously real cheap! And what you're experiencing is what I refer to as SSR. Strategic Sectional Railroading. I usually end up doing a project in phases because its true for me too, I get kind of full of a project and want to take a break from it and move on to something else. So it gets to a good stopping point and sits in that state until I get the desire to work it to the next stage. Sometimes the whole process may take multiple steps to get to completion but it keeps it from becoming a chore. Do it until you get full of it, and move onto to something else! Then when the inspiration strikes you, its a lot more fun to get back to it. It happens to me so much, that I came up with a term for it ! SSR.
Yeh, I'm cheap, and usually I wonder from project to another project. But as they say it's my railroad and I can do what I want. Looking forward to your next video.
That grass looks like turf pulled from your yard! I hope my grass looks that good someday!
It will, you are moving along om your layout.
@cnwtrain Thanks for watching!
Everything is coming along nicely!
Slow process, thanks for watching.
I heard the Westminster chimes in the background! Oh yeah and nice work on the layout too!
Lol, didn't realize those chimes were pick up on the narration. Thx man.
Nice process ….. everything looks great 😊
It's getting there.
Derail starts with the 1st train car after the 2nd locomotive at 3:02 Watch the wheels very closely
Great video, I was wondering if you had staging, the layout has progressed nicely over the last few years!!! Hopefully Santa will fill your stocking with some cool railroad equipment for use in the New Year!!! 👍👍👍👍👍😁😁😁😁😁
Yep, 15 staging tracks. I have posted videos showing the staging tracks and operation using staging. Staging trains is the most important thing to operations to me. Thanks for your comment.
The car cleaning business is a nice idea. Not seen that before!
You are right, never notice them on other layouts. The thing is they are scattered all over the country. This industry comes in all shapes and sizes. Even seen some that are like mobile services that will come to a spur track location with all their equipment and clean the cars. Thanks for your comment.
My wife's the same way when I start operating my trains. One time she started with that, "When ya gonna do this...When ya gonna do that....If you don't start doing things around the house, I'm leaving". I got so sad and I started to cry, I sure do miss her.
Well, I don't know what to say other than I always have to balance between work, doing stuff around the house, and then my hobbies. Giving priorities in that order.
Love looking at big yards 😊
Thanks for taking a look.
Nice new project! I enjoy your scenery technique. Working on cabooses myself at the moment...
That sounds good. I will be doing that myself soon. Just got an order in from Tangent for a bunch of caboose detail parts. Just watched your video again a few days ago on your cabooses. Want to upgrade my caboose fleet. Thanks for watching.
Good work! I think your knob could look like a round outdoor table if it were in a park.
I have another idea for hiding that knob. Thanks for your comment.
Nice Work! Enjoyed the video!
Thanks a bunch.
great job
Thanks for watching.
Very smart using the lift out section. It’s no fun trying to reach a derailed train in a closed tunnel section. The static grass looks great. The blend is the key!
I like the look of the static grass, but it is mess to work with. Thanks for looking.
Good Work!
Thanks for watching
I like that idea! I wish I had seen that before I buried one of my curved mainlines in a tunnel.
Yes, indeed you never know when you are going to have a mishap in a covered area.
Can I ask how you made the aggregate piles at the 3:10 mark?
It's been a while since I built those piles. I'm thinking I stacked some foam in a pyramid shape glued together and took a rasp and got the general shape of the piles. Then took the sand and poured over the tops till the foam was all covered and wet water spray and 50/50 white glue. But remember to make the foam pile much smaller than the piles you want to achieve. It still takes a lot of sand to cover. Hope that helps.
@@cnwtrain It doee! Thank you!
As always...great and appreciated action on this channel.
Thanks for taking the time to look. I know you been busy on your own pike.
@cnwtrain Aren't we all?! Have a great Christmas!
I love seeing a “not quite completed layout” that already looks so amazing. I also really like the subtle weatherimg on your train cars. Really well done-not overdone. Wonderful!
I believe in weathering all the rolling stock before they enter the layout. I use built dates on the cars to determine the amount of weathering they receive. Also, the types of loads the cars carry determine the degree of weathering. Thanks for your comment and watching.
Great switching video with realistic action. I really like the scrap yard ....... nicely done. Always enjoy watching operations on your beautiful layout. Mike
Thanks Mike appreciate it.
new sub to the channel. my first comment so pardon me if this is a question you addressed already but I am curious about the modifications to this unit. Would this have been a passenger geep as delivered that got modified after passenger service, with a chop nose and fuel tank changed to fuel only? Cheers, Rob
No this was not a passenger unit. CNW acquired many secondhand GP-7s and 9s and put them in rebuild programs. Chopping the noses and extending the fuel tanks, hence the torpedo tubes on the top of the long hood. This is one of the reasons I love the CNW railroad is because of the extended life they gave these Geep's. There are so many different variations and diversified looks to them. I enjoy modeling them. Thanks for the sub and looking.
@ speaking of extending life, how about those C628s in ore service. Amazing. Thanks so much for the reply.
@@yrunaked4 Yeh I love those units. Unfortunately they used those units in ore country and I'm not modeling that area.
A nice little switching assignment on a good-looking layout. Very smooth action with the delayed action on your Kaydees. Thanks for sharing.
Yeh the Kaydees don't always work perfectly in delay. Thanks for the comment.
Interesting! Is there an Ames area on the layout?
No Ames, but Marshalltown was almost called Boone. These towns are only in name only. Not modeled to the actual towns at all. Thanks for watching.
great job thanks
Hey, thanks for taking a look.
Fantastic layout. Great use of sound effects and very realistic train operations. Keep em coming.
Thanks for stopping by.
Where did you find the crane for your scrap yard? Very fine layout. Good details.
I have had that crane for so long, I just don't remember. Thanks for watching
Great video! Layout is looking awesome!
Thanks, it's getting there.
Oh... I model the Illinois Terminal as if it never went bankrupt in 1982 and through mergers and acquisitions in the 80's, became a class one railroad in my modeling year of 1991 or 2.
1000? Over the years, I've accumulated over 1500 freight cars. Half are weathered and beginning of next year, I'll finally begin my layout in my 2-car garage here in Las Vegas.
Ha ha, you poor soul, you have the disease too.
I just love your switching operations videos. The businesses are very well laid out and the switch jobs seem to be very well thought out and interesting. I, too, am a Chicago & Northwestern fan, although that came about rather late in my hobby life. I have a number of questions for you if you don't mind. 1) How did you come to be a C&NW fan? I detect a bit of a southern accent so I would have thought you'd be more of a NS fan or a fan of some other road. 2) How did you come up with the track arrangements for all of your local/switching jobs? I had an industrial area (bare portion of the layout) that I struggled for years trying to pack the most trackage and businesses in and yet trying to make it a challenging site for switching and allow enough room for buildings to support the switch jobs. Finally came to an acceptable solution earlier this year. 3)Exactly how many engines do you have?? I thought a friend of mine and I have the engine disease bad but I think you might be the king with all the C&NW engines I see in your videos. 4)How do you determine your locals jobs for each session? Do you switch each business every time or make a more random job, some businesses one time, the others during another session? From the videos I've watched it appears that you only switch some of the businesses now and then, not all of them every time. 5)What decoders do you prefer? Why? and what DCC system do you use? I migrated away from Digitrax decoders to NCE's and abandoned the MRC system I first had about 25 years ago to the NCE Power Cab. Lately though I have been converting about 9 or 10 engines to the Blunami decoders with Scale Sound speakers. Any other interesting, informative and useful info you wish to pass on will be appreciated. Thanks, Dale in Meridian, Idaho
Thanks for watching and your interest. To answer your questions. I have love trains all my life. You are correct I am a southerner. I have lived in northern Florida my whole life except 2 years. I lived in Iowa next to CNW tracks. Was very intrigued by this railroad for many reasons, too numerous to go into. Track arrangements is something you just have play with. Take a look at the prototypes from photos, and Google maps is a great resource. My loco count is probably well over a hundred on the layout. 85% in the CNW livery. Rolling stock is at about 900 cars. I use a car card and waybill system, which requires no set up for operations it's ready to go and is perpetual. So, the car cards dictate what gets switched in a town. The cars are blocked for each town in the yard. So, we run one local to each town. There are exceptions to that rule of course. Each town has enough switching to keep a person busy for 1 and half or two hours. I use SoundTraxx decoders, and my DCC system is Digitrax. And Scale Sound Speakers are the best. I am slowly converting all my locos to Scale Sound Speakers. If you have any other questions don't hesitate to ask.
Nice looking layout.
Makes me smile. So jealous of your fun!
It is a fun hobby, thanks for looking.
locomotive sounds WAY too loud, can't hear narration.
Great switching. Perfect to eat up time. The thing would block their train in the yard to lift moves out on the road like that. But great work. I love the layout
If the yard guys did all the blocking the local guys would get done too fast. We got to keep them busy.
Thanks for the switching action!
You're welcome, thanks for looking.
Great job .everything was flawless smooth running geeks. Nicely done👍😊
Thanks a bunch.
Sweet set up very detailed😊😊😊😊😊😊
Appreciate it, thanks for watching.
Great video, scenery is amazing.
Thank you much appreciated.
Nice switching video and great scenes. I enjoyed seeing the eastbound main line train rolling through Jefferson. Thank you! Mike
Thanks, Mike, for watching.
Beautiful switching video again, love your scenery and rolling stock!
Well thank you for watching.
Nice running!
Yeh and I'm not even tired, Lol thanks for watching.