Always liked Norm's use of black yard cinder and grass around his rails vs conventional ballast. It's especially evident in his closeup shots here. Years ago I purchased a 3 gal pail of Brennon's medium ballast but never applied it since I had to change or debug track problems . Now, perhaps I will use cinders in many places, inspired by Norm's magic. Gary
Although I haven't had a model railroad in over twenty years, I still enjoy watching your videos, Norm. Especially your workbench segments, such as here. I watched with great interest your weathering techniques. I don't think you overdid the oil stain seeps, at least from my side of the camera. I didn't see any over-done effects, for that matter, but a nice even and subtle suggestion of weather. Love your route and always enjoy studying the many details.
Very nice work here man! The scene at the end, in the engine facility, is just SICK! Too much realism to be a model railroad. I'm finishing up a Lionel SW900. I'm not as advanced as you are with 3D printing the coupler gap, so I just used styrene. Thanks for showing some of your weathering application. Maybe next time you could demonstrate how you apply the grime.
Nice build Norm!! I had my first ride on a SW7 New York Central switcher in 1969 when I was 4 years old, Don Staley the Conductor was friends with my Grandfather, it was on the Dow line here in Anderson Indiana!! Do I see some switching videos coming??
Norm I just finished rewatching the other 15 of these in the series, and I refreshed UA-cam and there was Episode 16 freshly posted. What are the odds! Great video as always.
Hey man, just want to say keep up the great work. Big inspiration for me and my modeling of Uk oo gauge, so just goes to show your tips work on a lot of levels. If you could do a showcase/review type thing on that mint S2 class as that looked incredible.
'Love my smoke Norm, however I have to agree with you;- the fluid seems to snot from every crevice of these expensive man-toys. I thought I was just a bad engineer😂
@@normstrains It would be very interesting to see what your standards are for freight cars. Couplers, Do you stick with the stock trucks or change them out. Your operational standards. Your paint standards I understand. Your freight car operational and detail standards would make for an interesting and informative video.
Also are you in Michigan or from Michigan? I thought I you made mention of it in one of your videos, I live in west Michigan near Kalamazoo. Thanks, Fred
@@fredphillips5629 I am on the west side of Detroit. Here are the shared tinkercads, let me know if they work: www.tinkercad.com/things/hPEnpzH1G12-copy-of-s2-pilot-fill-kadee-holes www.tinkercad.com/things/a5yyHhhEoBX-copy-of-s2-buffer I can also email the .stl files if you hit me up..
Always liked Norm's use of black yard cinder and grass around his rails vs conventional ballast. It's especially evident in his closeup shots here. Years ago I purchased a 3 gal pail of Brennon's medium ballast but never applied it since I had to change or debug track problems . Now, perhaps I will use cinders in many places, inspired by Norm's magic. Gary
Although I haven't had a model railroad in over twenty years, I still enjoy watching your videos, Norm. Especially your workbench segments, such as here. I watched with great interest your weathering techniques. I don't think you overdid the oil stain seeps, at least from my side of the camera. I didn't see any over-done effects, for that matter, but a nice even and subtle suggestion of weather. Love your route and always enjoy studying the many details.
Very nice work here man! The scene at the end, in the engine facility, is just SICK! Too much realism to be a model railroad. I'm finishing up a Lionel SW900. I'm not as advanced as you are with 3D printing the coupler gap, so I just used styrene. Thanks for showing some of your weathering application. Maybe next time you could demonstrate how you apply the grime.
Nice build Norm!! I had my first ride
on a SW7 New York Central switcher
in 1969 when I was 4 years old,
Don Staley the Conductor was friends
with my Grandfather, it was on the Dow line here in Anderson Indiana!!
Do I see some switching videos
coming??
Excellent work Norm! Thanks loads. 👏😏
Norm I just finished rewatching the other 15 of these in the series, and I refreshed UA-cam and there was Episode 16 freshly posted. What are the odds! Great video as always.
🤩 thanks for checking out my stuff!
Awesome video Norm! Love the S2 Alco! PRR 👍
🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃👍
This is incredible!! Nice work.
Norm - you have amazing talents. Thanks for the wonderful vlogs and sharing them with us all. All the best.
Hey man, just want to say keep up the great work. Big inspiration for me and my modeling of Uk oo gauge, so just goes to show your tips work on a lot of levels. If you could do a showcase/review type thing on that mint S2 class as that looked incredible.
Yo yard looks so realistic. I hope one day to get mine's looking close to that. But then again you have more room than me to play with
Great job Norm.
The interior detailing of your buildings is absolutely amazing. Great job.
Thanks man!!
'Love my smoke Norm, however I have to agree with you;- the fluid seems to snot from every crevice of these expensive man-toys.
I thought I was just a bad engineer😂
Someday they'll invent holographic smoke effects!
Do you weather trains for other people or just your own? You're trains are amazing looking.
Thanks! I don’t really take on work for others. Occasionally I’ll fix or weather something for a pal but it always takes me a long time to get to it.
That is very nice!
Love ALCo switchers.
As always, you did a fabulous job.
Thanks for sharing your adventure!
Just Amazing!
Amazing as always! I Hope one day a Niagara or Milwaukee F7 Baltic run in his layout and he does a video about them in the future!
Do you have a video of what your standards are for seting up your freight cars. Trucks, couplers and so on?
Haven’t really done a freight car yet. The 3rd Rail head end cars I did would be the closest I think 🤔
@@normstrains It would be very interesting to see what your standards are for freight cars. Couplers, Do you stick with the stock trucks or change them out. Your operational standards. Your paint standards I understand. Your freight car operational and detail standards would make for an interesting and informative video.
Norm, great job on the S2. Any chance you would sell a 2 sets of the pilot conversion?
I can share the Tinkercads if you want - let me know!
@@normstrainsI would like that, thank you.
Also are you in Michigan or from Michigan? I thought I you made mention of it in one of your videos, I live in west Michigan near Kalamazoo. Thanks,
Fred
@@fredphillips5629 I am on the west side of Detroit.
Here are the shared tinkercads, let me know if they work:
www.tinkercad.com/things/hPEnpzH1G12-copy-of-s2-pilot-fill-kadee-holes
www.tinkercad.com/things/a5yyHhhEoBX-copy-of-s2-buffer
I can also email the .stl files if you hit me up..
nicely weathered locomotive.