Thank you! Filming the night scenes are challenging, but I like the results too. And it gives a real sense of our layout operations. We operate both day and night sessions, with computer controlled sunrise and sunsets. The nights are shorter than the days though, as it's mid June on the layout right now.
I really appreciate the way you used visual effects to show which trains to check for on the timetable. I never understood this properly until seeing your explanation. Thank you!!
Wow! Excellent layout & equipment and a super story told as the railroads would have done it. Best model railroad video I've seen, Thanks for taking the time to make this video and posting for us.
Super. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. (Think Denver & Rio Grande meets Great Western meets Colorado & Southern with a little Chicago, Burlington & Quincy thrown in.) P.S. I was around for the beet hoppers and steam locomotives. 💙 T.E.N.
Thank you! The sugar beet dumps and factories are now gone from this part of Colorado. A friend that lived here in the 1950s passed along that bit of "color commentary" while reminiscing. So I put it in.
Great video, I'm close but not light bulb over my head in the ability to read a TT. What seems rather obvious to you in the video and you cover it on the meets etc. I would like to see more on how you figure times on meets etc. I see at some points you quickly do the math on a meet with 303,29,30,304,328 but 327,23,24,32 or not covered. I know it is math etc. and it is quick short hand once you know the trick to read it real fast. If you could go over this in a step by step process and explain why and how the math works in a video it would help greatly. Once I see it done, it should add up. Thanks
Thank you. The time table reading is shown very quickly and briefly in the video to keep viewers interest. In reality, when crews receive their orders and clearance, they typically take a few minutes to check their assignment against the time table. So don't be impressed with the speed of the timetable reading in the video -- that's just Hollywood. The time table design helps with the reading. As noted in the video, scheduled trains that have to meet each other are shown in bold. So there are no "gotchas" hidden in the schedule for first, second, or third class trains. In the video, train No. 41 reaches the Prospect register at 9:24 am or later. Any superior (first or second class) train that has a time at Prospect during the 12 hours before 9:24 am -- which would be 9:24 pm to 9:24 am -- must be on the Prospect register before No. 41 can leave. To figure out which superior trains meet this criteria, I find it helpful to think of the face of a clock (analog clock for the young at heart). The trains of each class are shown sequentially from the center of the time table out, so I follow that order. For example, checking Northward Trains, No. 31 is at Prospect at 10:33 am -- not between 9:24 pm and 9:24 am, so not of concern. Likewise, neither is No. 23 at 5:33 pm. But No. 29 at 9:43 pm *is* in that interval -- just barely. BTW, I find it easiest to figure this out at the register, checking as I go. And this is not something I can do as fast as presented in the video -- as I said, it's just Hollywood. If you continue, you hopefully come up with the 5 first and second class trains listed in the video. If not, I made a mistake! I hope that helps.
And to make it easier, print out the time table from the link in the description. Print both sides on one sheet of paper, and then fold in half to make the time table the crews use in an operating session.
@@CSRYfan I do a double fold "TT"/ Job description for my layout. I just have not got to to the actual time table part. Mine is folded one more time after the 1st fold to make it into a small slim booklet. Thanks. 23 for 2023? I have mine set up that way too. Thanks for the copy it will help add tom my ETT on my layout.
Yep, the C&S rolls through little towns that have grown to become home to millions along the Colorado Front Range. Still plenty of trains, now the BNSF, between Denver and Cheyenne.
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it. The Utah Jct interlocking is controlled by an automated circuit. As an approaching train is detected, the circuit randomly, decides whether to clear for the train or hold it for a random period of time -- up to two minutes of real time. I plan to have a future video on Utah Jct and the Rio Grande's North Yard.
Joe, that's an original Broadway Limited Heavy Mikado. I bought and modified three as soon as they came out: Nos 805, 807, and 809. That was about 20 years ago I believe, or more. The big changes were scratchbuilding oil bunkers and adding feedwater heaters: Elesco on the 805 (not in this video), and Worthington on the other two. I believe everything else was just paint and decals for lettering. Art Mitchell had a great article in Railmodel Journal Oct and Nov 1997 issues on creating No. 807. I did not go to the length that Art did to build his beautiful and faithful rendition, but he really shows you how to do it! Look for No. 805 in a future video.
These are wonderful. You did a absolutely beautiful Job. I have wanted to do a Burlington 2-8-2. And do a Burlington 2-10-2. I have a proto 200 Colorado and Southern 2-10-2 and was gonna kitbash it and turn it into. Burlington 2-10-2. But upon further examination on the Q's 2-10-2's only a few had southern valve gear. So I am on the fence for it
Excellent run, especially the night scenes
Thank you! Filming the night scenes are challenging, but I like the results too. And it gives a real sense of our layout operations.
We operate both day and night sessions, with computer controlled sunrise and sunsets. The nights are shorter than the days though, as it's mid June on the layout right now.
Loved the Time table and Train Order explanation.
Thanks. Getting that part clear and to the point was a challenge.
Very well done. The layout looks great and smooth running. Nice intro to TT/TO operations.
Thank you Tim!
Super cool. Nice to see a working model railroad..I hope someday mine will run like this
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Very well done and VERY nice layout.
Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Great day of work.
Thank you. A good time was had by all!
Thanks for posting. 😀 I thought that it is an excellently produced video of a great layout. Not to mention the TT&TO operations.
Cheers Ken
Thank you Ken! I'm glad you enjoyed it. These videos are fun to make too.
Thanks Jim😄@@CSRYfan
I really appreciate the way you used visual effects to show which trains to check for on the timetable. I never understood this properly until seeing your explanation. Thank you!!
You're very welcome. I really enjoy the added fun of TT&TO operations.
Nice video. I've learned a bit how TT and TOs work in operation. Great looking layout as well.
Thank you. TT&TO puts more responsibility on the road crew for operating decisions. I think that makes it more fun.
Well done!
Thank you -- glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent video!
Thank you very much!
Wow! Excellent layout & equipment and a super story told as the railroads would have done it. Best model railroad video I've seen, Thanks for taking the time to make this video and posting for us.
Thank you very much!
Super. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. (Think Denver & Rio Grande meets Great Western meets Colorado & Southern with a little Chicago, Burlington & Quincy thrown in.) P.S. I was around for the beet hoppers and steam locomotives. 💙 T.E.N.
Thank you very much! More to come...
Excellent video! Realistic and prototypical operation. Very well done. Mike
Thank you Mike. Glad you enjoyed it.
What a great railroad! Your "vintage" documentary video is also outstanding. Thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video and well told story. Loved the comment about the stinky beet plant. They have to be some of the worst olfactory offenders of all time.
Thank you! The sugar beet dumps and factories are now gone from this part of Colorado. A friend that lived here in the 1950s passed along that bit of "color commentary" while reminiscing. So I put it in.
The way TO &TT operation is supposed to work, The dispatcher only needs to intervene when things go to heck.
Yep, and we'll need a dispatcher in a future video soon enough...
Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video, I'm close but not light bulb over my head in the ability to read a TT. What seems rather obvious to you in the video and you cover it on the meets etc. I would like to see more on how you figure times on meets etc. I see at some points you quickly do the math on a meet with 303,29,30,304,328 but 327,23,24,32 or not covered. I know it is math etc. and it is quick short hand once you know the trick to read it real fast. If you could go over this in a step by step process and explain why and how the math works in a video it would help greatly. Once I see it done, it should add up. Thanks
Thank you.
The time table reading is shown very quickly and briefly in the video to keep viewers interest. In reality, when crews receive their orders and clearance, they typically take a few minutes to check their assignment against the time table. So don't be impressed with the speed of the timetable reading in the video -- that's just Hollywood.
The time table design helps with the reading. As noted in the video, scheduled trains that have to meet each other are shown in bold. So there are no "gotchas" hidden in the schedule for first, second, or third class trains.
In the video, train No. 41 reaches the Prospect register at 9:24 am or later. Any superior (first or second class) train that has a time at Prospect during the 12 hours before 9:24 am -- which would be 9:24 pm to 9:24 am -- must be on the Prospect register before No. 41 can leave.
To figure out which superior trains meet this criteria, I find it helpful to think of the face of a clock (analog clock for the young at heart). The trains of each class are shown sequentially from the center of the time table out, so I follow that order. For example, checking Northward Trains, No. 31 is at Prospect at 10:33 am -- not between 9:24 pm and 9:24 am, so not of concern. Likewise, neither is No. 23 at 5:33 pm. But No. 29 at 9:43 pm *is* in that interval -- just barely.
BTW, I find it easiest to figure this out at the register, checking as I go. And this is not something I can do as fast as presented in the video -- as I said, it's just Hollywood.
If you continue, you hopefully come up with the 5 first and second class trains listed in the video. If not, I made a mistake!
I hope that helps.
@@CSRYfan I will review the video again tonight. Thanks
And to make it easier, print out the time table from the link in the description. Print both sides on one sheet of paper, and then fold in half to make the time table the crews use in an operating session.
@@CSRYfan I do a double fold "TT"/ Job description for my layout. I just have not got to to the actual time table part. Mine is folded one more time after the 1st fold to make it into a small slim booklet. Thanks. 23 for 2023? I have mine set up that way too. Thanks for the copy it will help add tom my ETT on my layout.
Absolutely wonderful!
Thank you -- I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Great Video! It makes me want to model the clear creek branch! C&S standard gauge is highly under rated
Thank you!
The C&S standard gauge is very well documented as it ran steam until 1960. See the csrailway.com website for more.
Keep these coming, I am working on a C&S Layout and I love the operations you have in place!
Thank you -- more to come.
My aunt lives in Bloomfield and whebever i visit i always see the old C&S heading north and south.
Yep, the C&S rolls through little towns that have grown to become home to millions along the Colorado Front Range. Still plenty of trains, now the BNSF, between Denver and Cheyenne.
Utah Junction at the 10:05 mark, who controls that interlocking?
Nice explanation of Timetable Operation by the way.
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
The Utah Jct interlocking is controlled by an automated circuit. As an approaching train is detected, the circuit randomly, decides whether to clear for the train or hold it for a random period of time -- up to two minutes of real time. I plan to have a future video on Utah Jct and the Rio Grande's North Yard.
May I get some information on that heavy 2-8-2. Did you have to do a lot of cosmetic work to make her look like a Burlington engine?
Joe, that's an original Broadway Limited Heavy Mikado. I bought and modified three as soon as they came out: Nos 805, 807, and 809. That was about 20 years ago I believe, or more.
The big changes were scratchbuilding oil bunkers and adding feedwater heaters: Elesco on the 805 (not in this video), and Worthington on the other two. I believe everything else was just paint and decals for lettering.
Art Mitchell had a great article in Railmodel Journal Oct and Nov 1997 issues on creating No. 807. I did not go to the length that Art did to build his beautiful and faithful rendition, but he really shows you how to do it!
Look for No. 805 in a future video.
These are wonderful. You did a absolutely beautiful Job. I have wanted to do a Burlington 2-8-2. And do a Burlington 2-10-2. I have a proto 200 Colorado and Southern 2-10-2 and was gonna kitbash it and turn it into. Burlington 2-10-2. But upon further examination on the Q's 2-10-2's only a few had southern valve gear. So I am on the fence for it