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The British Railroader
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Приєднався 23 жов 2011
Welcome to my channel, devoted to all things train related.
The main focus of the channel is the building of my current layout, Brooklyn Park - an HO scale shelf layout set in a fictionalised part of Brooklyn, New York, depicting the operations of the real life short line, The New York and Atlantic Railway with guest appearences by the Class 1 CSX.
However, I also like to go out and about and share my train rides, travels and time spent train-spotting with everyone through live action videos covering everything from the local railways of my home town to far flung systems around the world.
Add to this my 'shows you how' videos, model railway show reports, product spotlights and other miscellaneous railway related content, I hope that I have something for everyone.
Feel free to subscribe, hit that bell for notifications, click 'like' if you enjoy a video and post comments if you have any questions or if there is anything you want to share, I try to answer them all.
Cheers - Steve
The main focus of the channel is the building of my current layout, Brooklyn Park - an HO scale shelf layout set in a fictionalised part of Brooklyn, New York, depicting the operations of the real life short line, The New York and Atlantic Railway with guest appearences by the Class 1 CSX.
However, I also like to go out and about and share my train rides, travels and time spent train-spotting with everyone through live action videos covering everything from the local railways of my home town to far flung systems around the world.
Add to this my 'shows you how' videos, model railway show reports, product spotlights and other miscellaneous railway related content, I hope that I have something for everyone.
Feel free to subscribe, hit that bell for notifications, click 'like' if you enjoy a video and post comments if you have any questions or if there is anything you want to share, I try to answer them all.
Cheers - Steve
Brooklyn Park: Layout build update Number 28
It's been a while but here is a short update for you where I talk about my crossing gates.
Sellers Ebay links:
Model Rail Electrics - www.ebay.co.uk/str/modelrailelectrics?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=ypqdyryyr56&sssrc=3418065&ssuid=s91F0dRHSB2&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
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Sellers Ebay links:
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Programming and Operating a Soundtraxx Blunami Decoder
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Part 2 to yesterday's video about the installation of the Blunami decoder. Today I am looking at programming and power sources.
Fitting a Soundtraxx Blunami PNP Decoder to a HO Scale Atlas MP15DC
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Hi all, this is a show's you how video on installing the new bluetooth decoders from Soundtraxx. I had hoped to cover the programming as well, but that will need to be another video. If you are here in the UK and you want to try these, they can be found at Costal DCC in Suffolk - www.coastaldcc.co.uk Other suppliers may be available, I just happen to use these guys.
Shoeburyness Model Railway Club, 40th Model Railway Exhibition 2024
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Hi all, here is my video from the exhibition today (Saturday). I didn't manage to film all of the layouts, but got the lion's share for you. The show is over 2 days, details below: Shoeburyness Model Railway club show details: Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th August 2024 The Seaglass Thorpe Hall School Wakering Road Southend-on-Sea Essex SS1 3RD 10am to 5pm (4pm Sunday) Admission: Adults £8 Children...
Friday Night is Train Set Time - Part 2 - Lego
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Another impromptu train set running session, this time using L gauge! Shoeburyness Model Railway club show details: Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th August 2024 The Seaglass Thorpe Hall School Wakering Road Southend-on-Sea Essex SS1 3RD 10am to 5pm (4pm Sunday) Admission: Adults £8 Children under 16 £1* Under 3's Free* *when accompanied by a full paying adult
Lais DCC KungFu Stay alive
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Taking a look this week at the budget stay alives available from Lais DCC. These are available in the UK on Ebay via: www.ebay.co.uk/str/blwtechnicalservices?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=V5rZPaVTRVa&sssrc=3418065&ssuid=s91F0dRHSB2&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Videos about stay alives can be found here: Larry Puckett - ua-cam.com/video/bhK4HuJb6Ws/v-deo.htmlsi=eA-qt37AiCKgJql0...
Show Announcement: Shoeburyness Model Railway Club 2024 show
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Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th August 2024 The Seaglass Thorpe Hall School Wakering Road Southend-on-Sea Essex SS1 3RD 10am to 5pm (4pm Sunday) Admission: Adults £8 Children under 16 £1* Under 3's Free* *when accompanied by a full paying adult
Friday night is train set time
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Bit of Friday night fun where I spend some time playing with an old analogue train set.
Proto-Freelancing Explained
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in this video I discuss the difference between prototype modelling, proto-freelancing and freelancing. Below are the UA-cam links discussed in the video: Lance Mindheim: youtube.com/@user-sc7vw5bw4i?si=3ItsVxe2HRP0SXHD youtube.com/@LanceMindheim?si=q2iyZT3MqLXz3kCB Seaboard Central: youtube.com/@SeaboardCentral?si=YR3ewnpVl8zK0uty
Brooklyn Park: Layout build update Number 27
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Short one today. for those looking for Lance's latest book, it can be found on Amazon here in the UK via this link: amzn.eu/d/0h33Vtsq
Brooklyn Park: Layout build update Number 26
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Short update today focussing on the auto shop
MTH R17 New York Subway Work Train - HO scale
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I don't often do unboxing/review videos, but I thought this one was worth it. Here I look at my new HO scale MTH R17 New York Subway Work Train
Brooklyn Park: layout build update Number 25
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Brooklyn Park: layout build update Number 25
Brooklyn Park: Layout build update Number 24
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Brooklyn Park: Layout build update Number 24
Billericay Model Railway Group: Railway Exhibition 2024
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Billericay Model Railway Group: Railway Exhibition 2024
Show announcement - Billericay Model Railway Group: Railway Exhibition 2024
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Show announcement - Billericay Model Railway Group: Railway Exhibition 2024
The Trains of Mallorca: Part 2 - The Soller Railway and Port de Soller Tram
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The Trains of Mallorca: Part 2 - The Soller Railway and Port de Soller Tram
The Trains of Mallorca: Part 1 - The Palma Metro
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The Trains of Mallorca: Part 1 - The Palma Metro
The British Railroader: Name That Conductor
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The British Railroader: Name That Conductor
Brooklyn Park: Layout Build Update Number 23
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Brooklyn Park: Layout Build Update Number 23
West Essex Modelrail 2024: Show Highlights
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West Essex Modelrail 2024: Show Highlights
New York and Atlantic Railway HO Model Railroad Operating Session: Switching Brooklyn Park
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New York and Atlantic Railway HO Model Railroad Operating Session: Switching Brooklyn Park
Fitting barbed/razor wire to HO scale fencing
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Fitting barbed/razor wire to HO scale fencing
Brooklyn Park: Layout build update Number 22
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Brooklyn Park: Layout build update Number 22
Customising Sounds for your Diesel Locomotives
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Customising Sounds for your Diesel Locomotives
Steve's Sunday Shoutout 24 March 2024
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Steve's Sunday Shoutout 24 March 2024
Oh yes, the gates look quite realistic! Great job. Who makes the actual gates and signals you used?
@@awblenko it was a Chinese company on Ebay. I will dig out the details and send them over to you
Good show on the gates, Steve! They look fantastic. It's very common for the gates to lower and raise at slightly different times from each other. There is a major road crossing near where I live that has 6 gates - four street and two pedestrian - on each side of the street, for a total of 12 gates at the crossing. All 12 seem to open/close at slightly different rate of speed.
@@DaveSCHS I did feel the slight delay between the two looked right
Thanks for the video. Very interesting!
@edwardrygiel5178 no problem, glad you enjoyed
An interesting video, Steve. All above my pay grade, though 😁...cheers James 🙂👍
Much easier than it looks, trust me
Great video, Steve. I think you've sold me on at least trying this system out. I have a few locos that I'd like to have as DCC eventually, so when I can afford it, I'll give one a go, probably my GP15-1.
@@jimbarrett1975 they certainly are worth a try
I like the sound of this system. Programming a loco looks a breeze. I'm tempted to get one of these. The only thing I find with using a Pad/Mobile is there is no "feel" when controlling the loco. I have to keep looking at the mobile when operating. I find this awkward, especially when switching. I would use the Tablet to programme the loco, then use my Wifi throttle as normal. I am very impressed with it though.
Hi there. I do agree with you, there is less feel for it with the tablet/phone interface. However, as you noted, the programming is a breeze and far less fiddly than with a controller. It is a bit like JMRI in that respect. I like that it is fully DCC compatible and you can use it with other power sources such as a battery. This may be the way forward. I hear that Hornby's offering is similar but nowhere near as versatile.
@@thebritishrailroader I am quite taken by it. I have a Genset that I could try one out on.
@csxrensville5105 and luckily Soundtraxx do the Genset sounds, I think it is on their Baldwin and other sound set (though please check)
I can see this being something that Dylan may contemplate as he gets older ...cheers James 🙂👍
@@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY he probably will. The latest decoders made by Hornby have this type of functionality
Nothing is ever straightforward. 😀 The amount of hassle I had trying to fit a PNP Tsunami decoder into a GP40 got me to thinking I should take up Stamp collecting. These decoders seem to fit the bill in terms of wireless remote, without the expense of buying a WiFi control system.
To be fair, I was trying to get a quart in to a pint pot, but ultimately managed it and it has worked out really well. I think as technology moves on and both motors and decoders get smaller, this will become easier. Can you imagine trying to get some of the early decoders into these things!
Well done. That speaker looks like they gave you no room for soldering -ugh. I fully anticipate that you will soon be doing human heart transplants.
@@awblenko now that would be interesting 😅
So I assume it was you that bagged that Union Railroad MP15 off eBay. There were 3 MP15's from the same seller, Conrail (which I got), a Union Railroad and an LTEX. Someone had the LTX while I was thinking about it. He who hesitates looses out on the loco.
@@andyknott8148 got to get in quick sometimes! As I'm reminded every time I look at my collection of surplus locomotives.
@@andyknott8148 I actually got it direct from Rails of Sheffield, though they may have had it on Ebay. Shame I missed the others, I would have loved the LTEX one
@@thebritishrailroader Yes they were selling them on eBay. I would have loved the LTEX one.
@andyknott8148 luckily we didn't have to fight over it 🤣
Great stuff, cheers Steve. I like the idea of the Blunami decoders - I presume from what you just showed that they will work using conventional DCC control as well. That does look like a fiendishly small space to pack it all in!
@jimbarrett1975 thanks mate. You can run them via Bluetooth or via normal DCC. I will do a video going through it all very soon
Steve, great idea on where to locate the current keeper. Nice job!
@@DaveSCHS cheers mate
Great video! Thanks for the info on these 👍
@GenxDiorama-23 no problem, I am pleased it has been helpful
another corker Steve, great job!
@EmperorsPath cheers mate
Hi Steve, that looked like a great exhibition with some lovely layouts. I do like Dawn's monochrome, Breif Encounters layout, and I'm sure I spotted a Dylington Custard Company sign on a low relief warehouse on Elbow Lane top left-handcorner at around 21:20..cheers James 👍
@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY thanks James. I didn't spot the sign, shows how much attention I pay to detail 😅
@@thebritishrailroader I don't know how I spotted it, I just caught a glimpse of it and had to have another look 😂👍
A real pleasure to meet you Steve and a massive thankyou for the shout out. If Saturday is anything to go by Sunday will be another amazing day. Amazing videos and amazing layout project on your hands so keep up the great work. 👍👍Martin B
@mrmartinb1615 cheers mate, it was great to meet you guys too. I hope day 2 is as good as day 1. Steve
@@thebritishrailroader Ya day two was just as amazing as day one. A great week end. 👍👍
@mrmartinb1615 really glad it all went well. Hope to see you guys again sometime, I will certainly keep watching the UA-cam channel
@@thebritishrailroaderLook forward to it. 👍. Thank you so much Steve and keep up the amazing videos. 👍👍
Nice layouts. I'll be subscribing to Geeksville.
There were some lovely layouts there, especially Geeksville
Very nice my Friend new sub and Bell looking Forward to More. Frank From Canada.😊👍👍
@cncpgreatlakesdiv4896 cheers Frank. Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Hi Steve, we've enjoyed that little bit of fun with the LEGO train. Hopefully, Dylan has a new video coming soon. Enjoy your day out at the exhibition....cheers James 🙂👍
@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY cheers mate. Video coming later so keep an eye out 👍
@@thebritishrailroader we certainly will keep an eye out 😁👍
That's a hard couple at 4:40, mate...you'll have some explaining to do to the road foreman!
@@DaveSCHS already reported it 😉😆
Nothing more relaxing than watching trains run!
@@DaveSCHS sometimes it has just gotta be done
80's.......1880's? 😂😂
I am getting older, just not quite that old mate!
Nice music as well.
@@andyknott8148 cheers mate 😅
Much much better 😊
@@Castlebank_Sidings it is a lot better
It amazes me how stay alives had kind of become the next "big" thing. Whats more amazing are the comments people make about them "not lasting and my lico wont move very far when taken off the track" Your right, they are only meant to keep power for a few seconds. People don't seem to understand that.
@csxrensville5105 I think they are amazing and should be standard for DCC sound chips especially. I don't know why people can't get their heads around the concept that they are just to bridge small gaps. They are not class 73s - they are not auxiliary diesel engines 🤣🤣🤣
@thebritishrailroader 😂😂😂! There's a layout at your show Geeksville. Would you take a video of it please? I've seen a few photos, it looks quite good.
@csxrensville5105 I intend of taking a lot of video of that layout, trust me! 😉🤣
Well done! You know your way around a soldering iron.
@@DaveSCHS cheers mate
Interesting video, Steve. It's all a little bit too technical for us guys in Dylington, though ...cheers James 🙂👍
@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY oh give it time, Dylan will be heading this way trust me 😉
@thebritishrailroader you could well be right there, Steve 😁👍
Excellent description of the 3 types.!
@TheGulfwind thank you. Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Very helpful Steve, and the first one I’ve viewed to include the William Tell Overture! 😂
@@awblenko thanks mate. I am nothing if not cultured.
Thanks for the Advert Steve, Appriciated
@trevorgrout1452 no problem mate
Say hello to Dan, Barry and Martin of Royston Club who are exhibiting Geeksville, a UP layout at Shoeburyness show. Barry is the 3D printing man who has done a lot of trash cans etc for our layout.
@@andyknott8148 I saw that layout was coming. I am very much h looking forward to seeing
@@thebritishrailroader Your lucky, if I could have got a Sunday pass, you would have to have put up with me as well. I will see if I can get there on the Saturday.
@@andyknott8148 if you do, let me know
Excellent Steve from Virginia USA
Thank you. Hope it helped
Having built a small N GAUGE Inglenook layout (3' x 6") for an exhibtion I found that my class 08 shunter was forever stalling on the unifrog turnouts. Having watched your video I had that eureka moment. Bought three Gaugemaster frog juicers and now all I have to do is fit them. Simples!! Well I hope so!!!! Thanks for the tutorial.
@@chrissharp5073 no problem. Frog juicers do really help with the electrical continuity.
a lovely wholesome video Steve! My memories are of the Woolworths Night Mail set they did with Hornby and still invokes those memories now, and although the loco has been upgraded to a Bachmann version, the coaches have been toached up, painted a bit and weathered and still invokes that memory now!
@EmperorsPath glad you enjoyed it my friend. It has done exactly what I had hoped it would
Next year! 😃
@@csxrensville5105 I know, I can't wait!
I hope you enjoy the show, Steve. It's a little bit too far for us, but hopefully, you'll get some footage to share... Cheers James 🙂👍
@@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY will do
Simple pleasures. My first train set was the Triang Freight master set. A Class 31, although I didn't know that at the time, two container flats and a working overhead crane. My Dad put it on a board for me. Plated with it for hours! 😃
@csxrensville5105 it is the simple things in life that sometimes give the greatest pleasure. Obviously why my wife married me 🤣
Steve.......if you send me your address I'll send you a frame to put your wedding photo on the shelf in lol. But I do like your forward thinking in that the dining room walls are already painted sky blue 😂
@@Castlebank_Sidings don't mate, I have already gotten grief from the Mrs about not tidying up 😅
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
For Christmas one year in the very early 1960s my father built me a 4'x8' Lionel layout complete with postwar rolling stock and locomotives, Plasticville buildings, a passing siding and one industry siding. Ran the wheels off those trains as my father was building a larger HO scale layout from a Model Railroader plan right next to mine. The Lionel set was replaced by HO scale racing cars and by now most of it has been sold off. But I do have my two favorite boxcars from my Dad's original 1962 Athearn HO scale set on my current in-progress switching layout. Thanks for igniting the memories.
@billwilcox1060 no worries mate. Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Well, that was a surprisingly enjoyable video, Steve. In fact, believe it or not, that's probably a similar size to Dylington, and we always just play trains ... Cheers James 🙂👍
@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY cheers James. I am glad you enjoyed it. I have a question for you, does Dylan have an ice cream van on Dylington? Where I live we have a famous ice cream company called Rossis (yes related to the guy from Status Quo) and I would love to send him one
@thebritishrailroader Hi Steve, no, he doesn't have one on Dylington 😁👍
@@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY send me your address via thebritishrailroader@gmail.com and we will sort that out
@thebritishrailroader ok Steve, I will, thank you 🙂👍
It's nice to just run trains at times, isn't it? After ordering it three years ago, Atlas is finally shipping it's new RS-1 in LIRR livery.
@DaveSCHS cool mate. I have one of the older ones but I bet the new ones are nice. Thanks for the comment 👍
@@thebritishrailroader, I have been looking for a LIRR S-1 but haven't found any. I think they came out about 10 years ago.
@davidsteckler8551 I have an RS1, the really old version with moulded grab irons. We seem to get S1s come up on Ebay over here quite regularly but never in LIRR livery
I still have my original Hornby train set, one of the early two rail, I think it was Christmas 1962. The loco still runs but tends to waddle along. It gave me a passion for the hobby early on, and I started buying my own locos and stuff in my teens, after we moved to the US (1963-1973). Had a Tyco (red box) NYC GP20. Tyco made good detailed models then, before they got bought out by some toy company. The GP20 still runs, and can pull an awesome number of freight cars. a bit noisy, but I think it always was. Now back in the hobby after several decades hiatus. Still modelling NYC but now also NYOW and CP.
@clivewilkinson6076 oh wow that is fantastic. I should have kept a few bits from back then. I do still have one of my first American HO locos, a Bachmann F40ph, that I bought in around 1989
Interesting video, and thanks for the shoutout. To me there is no greater compliment to a prototype model railroader than to see a scene and say “I know where that is.”
@awblenko not a problem and thanks for the photos
Nicely explained, Steve, and I think that you know which area Dylington falls into 😁 ... Cheers James 🙂👍
@@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY oh I think we do 😅. Cheers mate
Great video, Steve. Prototype modelling may be the easiest to explain, but in my opinion, it is the HARDEST to model. I model closer to prototype because my railroads, my operations and my locations all follow the prototype. But I found it much easier to not try and match every structure (key street overpass and a few key structures notwithstanding). But I'd consider myself a proto freelancer based on this. I think there is a lot of gray area in between. It will be a debate here in the states for years to come.
@joelupinacci011073 thanks mate. It is never cut and dried and you could argue that even prototype modellers are in fact proto freelancers where they have to make compromises etc. A really interesting topic to discuss. Thanks again for your thoughts 👍
So basically, Recall is like the memory setting for radio stations on your car's sound system 👍
@@Rocketed12 it is just like that. It will recall the last few locos you have used
Great update. That is going to be a nice scene.
@montananorthern thanks mate 👍
Looking good! Thanks for the update!
@@thecnwmondovilinepaulscota7304 no problem at all. Thanks 👍
The school looks good. Blends in very well.
@@csxrensville5105 cheers mate
20 pounds? The book isn't that heavy! :)~
@@AroundTheLayout it's because it is so packed with stuff 🤣🤣
Great update Steve.The school is looking great, we're looking forward to seeing your progress with it. The diner will make a great feature once you've added the interior and lights...cheers James 🙂👍
@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY cheers James, thanks for the feedback. I see Dylan has a new video so will need to take a look 👍
@@thebritishrailroader yes he has, I hope you enjoy it 😁👍