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Oh yes we are in deep winter now. It's -15⁰ right now, and we had a bunch of snow last week. It's safe to say the railroad is completely buried now. There are a couple members checking out the railroad every few days. We had a very strong wind storm a few weeks ago and took down several trees too.

@ACRR618 Alcan hwy is one long boring ride as is let alone snow every where 😆 I'm new to 1/8 scale. I'm an o gauge guy but do they make Rotary snow plows for 7 1/4 gauge or they all custom built?

@@Dachamp2001 personally I've seen a couple on Facebook groups like Backyard Railroading and the rotaries were all custom built. There's not a whole lot of snow fighting equipment in our scales, I think mostly because when it's cold and snowy no one will be playing railroad. I have seen one working Jordan Spreader though built for snow and summer service. For us we couldn't run in the winter if we had a spreader or rotary as our track heaves bad in places.

@ACRR618 So far I never seen a Rotary in 1/8 I've seen some in G scale. Mill brook RR has 2 plows. But that's all I've seen.

We cut the handles down on the hoppers and made removable handles so they can be pulled off when we load. Raising the tipple is out of the question due to the foundation. Thanks for watching!

Hello, thanks for reaching out! You can send emails to arrnut@yahoo.com. Thanks for watching!

Thanks Much. I will send the picture.@@ACRR618

Total trackage is over 4 miles, that includes the mainline, sidings, and branch line. Thanks for watching!

Heck yeah, with a full load of rock going down our 3% grade we can hit 45 screamin' highball!

Thank you! It's way cool!

Thank you!

Thanks for watching. Those that make the videos make due with the equipment we have currently, nice cameras are expensive.

These are our SD70MAC locomotives modeled after the EMD SD70MAC. You'll probably find all that you need to know on SD type locomotives via Google.

In this case it's when one leak is fixed two more pop up lol!

Thanks for watching!

I'm sorry to hear that! I hope you find out where the trains went to! Thanks for watching!

It's super fun!

Thank you!

I believe they are all scratch built by Jack Klingbeil.

​@@ACRR618can you do a close up video of them sometime?

If you're a member or related to one yes, unfortunately for the public folks, we can't let them run trains due to insurance policies.

Accutie makes the joints and screws, and the screws are 5/16 by the way. In some cases yes, we do use track bolts and nuts with two piece joint bars. We use them in places such as diamonds, steel rail road crossings, and where there are joints in tight curves. If you lay and set your curves right, you can get away from using the two piece joint Bara and use the spring loaded one piece clips. In some cases the joint can land on a tie, in that case you can screw the joint down on the tie. Once the track has been ballasted the track stays in place. Your question made me realize I have omitted the hardware part so I'll address that in a future video.

Oh our camera lady did way more than her fair share of trackwork this year!

If you want something like this and your visiting the usa you have to try train Mountain It's in California, or it's an Oregon I can't remember which, but it's called train mountain. Type it into UA-cam, and you will see a railroad just like this, but 30 times bigger. Hundreds of rolling stock and hundreds of locomotives In hundreds I mean, hundreds of rolling stock. And a real gate crossing railroad gate with the lights and everything. When the train goes by, and it's a real life railroad gate.. This guy's railroad is very impressive for doing it himself. Very impressive, this must have cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars. But try it, train mountain.

@@GMCGUY-thank you :-)

That's a fact. Hopefully the insurance hopper doesn't share the same fate.

It depends on a few things. If you have a sharp curve the inside of the outer rail like the prototypes will wear down faster than a straight track. Also, the amount of traffic plays a part. We have a couple of curves that need the rail relayed which have had over 13 years of heavy summer use which is good. There's also old rail thats 20 or more years old that can be reused for spurs and sidings. Long answer short, it can last for a long time if it's taken care of.

This is our Goose, more to follow.

Maybe you shouldn't watch train videos with earbuds? It's his train, his video, he can blow his horn whenever.

I'm sorry the horn bothers your hearing, please be advised that most videos on this channel do contain lound noises such as train horns.

Hi Dave! Jack is actually the original founding member of Alaska Live Steamers, the first video I uploaded is what I considered to be an introductory video to this channel and is an interview with Jack regarding how this place came to be, if you have a chance I recommend watching it! Jack also documented the ARR in the 1960s and 1970s so you may have seen is work on the internet or Facebook. If you're still in the area or Alaska, feel free to reach out to one of us or myself and we'll be happy to show you around the track. I'd probably talk you ear off about ARR history so be warned lol. Thanks for watching and commenting Dave! Have a great day!

This engine belongs to Jack Klingbeil and is his last locomotive he's building. It's a sweet engine and members don't use it out of respect for Jack to keep it nice for the future. I used it since we have problems with other engines and I needed to move cars around and haul some track.

It depends on the weather and how many volunteers are present. In reality loading operations can be done by one person, but two is better. I hope to make a few runs but if not oh well. Currently all the aggregate cars are in there where they will live this winter.