WHEMCO, through its five operating companies, is a world-wide supplier of heavy industrial components for the metals, power generation, mining, and shipbuilding industries.
I love seeing this as I feel it helps to preserve the history of our heavy industries. Even if it’s just a static display,and only a portion of a past steel mill for example,the history is kept alive. Thanks for sharing this.
@@djstrains except that he doesn't need a runaround. This is a circular variation on the classic Ingelnook switching puzzle, where everything is switched from one side.
Your right about the smaller layouts, mine too is 2x3’ but I’ve turned into a nature run with a small town setting on a plateau which below that are tunnels. I’ve build it with a few turnouts which two are spurs so I can add onto those to make another module and maybe another, the possibilities are endless, gotta love N scale. Ron
DJn love the last building, it shows how Steven I a small space it real life they get creative. Those small spaces on your layout can fi fit a industries 👍👍👍😀
Thank you so much for this video, DJ! My own HO layout is only 1 x 6 feet, so it was great to see this small N layout. I especially like how the builder used a blue sky divider/backdrop at the back of the buildings, similar to how a peninsula is divided on large layouts. Very clever and gives a good effect.
Thanks Andrew! (I painted both sides of that divider, so in that back left corner I have an area where I can do a "woods" scene. I plan on just trying some techniques back there - and it is 'out of sight' from the Mill side view. )
@@KevinSquire Even better to have two sides, again like a peninsula. Good luck on your trees. Also, congrats on your scratchbuilt buildings based on a prototype. I've found I like building structures almost more than any other aspect of the hobby. Cheers!
Thanks DJ !!!! You made my layout seem way cooler than it is !! :-D Pretty sure I have watched this video now 10 times -- pretty neat listening to someone else describe your own layout. (and thank you everyone for your compliments!)
Thanks for showing these small layouts I have very limited space to use. So all of these small ones are of interest to me So thanks DJ . And thanks to Gentgeen for sharing.
One thing remarkable about the layout is that there's a lot of open space on it. It's not cramped, which you might expect on a very small layout. It makes for a relaxed, realistic feel. It's a real nice layout.
I visited a printing plant in Connecticut years ago and was amazed by the train bringing in those rolls of paper. Just so realistic on a small scale. Have to get back into n gauge!
Several years ago I transitioned from large layouts to a series of smaller projects: modulars, switching operations on narrow shelf layouts, and dioramas. I found that I could really focus on the details when I tightened my focus. My scenery skills improved, along with my weathering. I was a much happier modeler when I had fewer distractions.
100% correct as far as under the bed. I had a 4x8 H.O. scale christmas layout. Queen size bed fits 4x6 no problem. I had 4x6 under the bed and a 2x4 in the closet. They bolted together and made my 4x8 and after Christmas it made for easy storage.
RE WHEMCO & MESTA MACHINE: My mother wirked at Mesta during WWII as a machineist's helper. They were making driveshafts and bulkheads for battle ships. Later, as a teenager, I watched from the hill top across the river as fireless cookers sere travelling back and forth on the tracks that you showed.
I once read that George Westinghouse gave his plans for the air break to the world for free. Another great vid! Thanks, it reminds me to include one or two. Yes, small distinctive structures in the midst of other plainer buildings / scenes become a vignette unto themselves. A few people out front brings them alive.
Hi DJ, Being a space deprived modeler, as you know, I'm really enjoying Kevin Squire's posting on the Iron City N Scale Facebook page. His layout is the second micro layout I've seen built using the Kato 7" radius curves and sharp radius turnouts. The other was a layout on the Train Board N scale site. Very nice video DJ, the drone footage is fantastic and gives us all a view not often seen from ground level. I also want to take this time to wish You and Your family a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving. Cheers, Rich S.
I always liked GungHo! Parts of it were filmed in Beaver PA as well. The scene at the gazebo and the part where the Japanese guy goes into the river to freak out and Michael Keaton goes in after him. That was the Beaver river at the bridge between bridgewater and Rochester.
"You make me raff" Times change, but for a lot things, not so much. Great movie I did HO when I was really too young to be messing with raw wires and transformers. Getting back into it. This is a very fine channel. Thank you
Another fantastic video! You are really an inspiration. I love the way you encourage all of us to engage the hobby no matter what our level of skill. It really makes me want to do more. You should think about becoming a teacher when you retire-at a railroad college. I am sure that students could learn a great deal from your experience and you have a natural gift of being able to explain and encourage at the same time. Believe me, I know it is a gift!
HI JASON!!! You are part of a great family that did an amazing thing by saving the turtle creek railroad for so many years. I have a few videos on it. We rail fans are grateful for your family's efforts! ua-cam.com/video/bja3DWyHk28/v-deo.html. ua-cam.com/video/M0jJFYx6hnA/v-deo.html
@@djstrains Thanks for the links. I miss the railroad as it was part of history. It just got too expensive to maintain with hardly any business. Derailments were frequent and hard on the people that worked the line. 462, as you know, lives on at our McKeesport mill and we have plenty of tracks to run on there. 550 was scrapped. We switch thousands of cars at our Steelton, PA pipe mill as well. Thanks for keeping the memories alive!
Great video of a single industry theme layout in a small space. Nowadays you could use a trackmobile as the power unit although the 44 tonner is a neat little loco. Thanks DJ.
@@djstrains.......in the not too distant past, there was an Alco C415 running around an industrial site in KY along the Ohio River, but it may have been retired by now. Lots of options for power at an industrial site.
Terrific footage, and in the end you demonstrated a modeling opportunity. I think this aspect got a little overlooked for the Westinghouse and plant afterward... Those long buildings could be modeled along a backdrop. The building being printed/painted, or mocked up with styrene, and the angled sections projecting out for car spots. That would give the "feel" and appearance of a large industry with less than 2" of depth in N scale. Also, a GREAT detail is seen @3:55 with the notched overhang that was clearly made to allow the passage of rail cars. That's a detail you RARELY see on a model railroad. Overall this was a good instructional opportunity for modelers to replicate a LARGE industry in a small space (like along a backdrop, then there could be a siding or 2-3 track yard in the foreground, with the fencing, brush, and some trees to separate it from the business to create visual depth). I think these could be WELL represented on a shelf possibly 10-12 inches deep. :)
URR unfortunately does not use the track along the river at the beginning. Just the tracks in the south end of the industrial park where the switch Value Added and Millcraft
Hi DJ, A question for you, rather heavy, but, if I may (since you have such incredible insight into train operations). How do you think our country could get real trains more involved in transport of goods in general. Trains are so much more fuel efficient than trucks(I believe about 75 percent more efficient). Also, thank you for this thoughtful video! Phillip Roe
I have a friend that oversees the trucking industry. He fears the prospect of the Railroads becoming unified. East West is one issue but individual North South lines do not integrate well and therefore make trucking more time efficient. The families/Corporations controlling the N S lines are opposed to integration. Just my observation to start the conversation.
The railroads are run by hedge funds. CSX is owned by MANTLE RIDGE hedge fund. They downsized and cut man power and engines and more to the bare minimum, to appease stock holders and to sell when ready. They never want to grow business, only maximize profits from existing business.
Thank you DJ and JAG 52 for your insights into the train and trucking business! Perhaps someday someone will capitalize on this greater efficiently and things will change(I won't bet on it though after your comments) Take care Phillip
The Westinghouse factory in this video was part of Westinghouse electric, I think it was an entirely different company from the air brake. That's where they built large generators for powerplants.
Yep. Same founder but two different companies. The drone footage is phenomenal for capturing the factories. Plenty more plants up and down all the rivers. Much of them are rarely photographed. This is great work to get them before they are gone. Btw, the huge Schnabel flatcars worked Westinghouse Electric, and the equally impressive Pennsy heavy duty, multi-trucked flatcars worked Mesta and everywhere their large forgings were used. Great vids!
Thanks for the video. Small/micro layouts are underrated and can provide a lot of fun to build and operate. Those compact curves are great for it, too. I have an N scale BLI CSX SD40-2 and tried it (for fun) on those 7” curves and it actually negotiated them! However, I would not recommend it for a permanent layout.
So many main UA-cam railfan channels all up east and I’m here in Texas like…Norfolk southern and CSx? We’re all about Up and BNsF down here. Drive through port of Houston every week and I see every railway you can think of even see a CP and CN being switched out by bluebonnet and a cascade green.
I hope to model a portion of the C&NW (Cheap & Nothing Wasted) that serviced an automotive plant. Depending on the era everything from raw materials in to finished automobiles out. Having worked there I know well getting the facility reasonably modeled would require a large amount t of room. So selective compression is in order.
the green pipes represent already coated (epoxy); I rewound plenty Westinghouse. Scale reality for HO means I should buy the next 2 neighbors' houses, knock out walls, build bridge, for my scale location--just a thought. hah-hah
The ideal location for a model railroad club would be a disused Big Box store or shopping mall. That way they could put some actual distance and time between destinations
Just the exterior shots were filmed at the old Mesta Machine buildings for the Gung Ho movie. The interior factory shots took place in the Shadyside stamping plant in Shadyside, Ohio and in the Fiat plant in Córdoba, Argentina.
DJ, you should get into the motivational speaker game, your calm voice and easy way of speaking suggests that whatever you are talking about is dead easy to do, you must be a killer Dad.
Do you have other industry videos. No one does this for the hobby. I model the same way. Group of industries connected by my track. With a yard to hold cars. Unique ways to store and introduce additional cars.
I do this for the hobby. I have 300 videos for 10 years where I teach all that I know as an engineer for 23 years. A few years ago I got my drone and my part 107 license. I haven't used the drone for much else except help a friend with a music video and another person with a music video. I was asked to do a roof siding company promo soon, but my heart is in teaching railroad stuff since I grew up pre internet and had NO IDEA how things worked.
ou will be very successful if you can film an industry or two showing them switching out cars and spotting cars. Currently no one is doing this with regularity except I have JT starting to show a few. But he is on the ground. If you spent a while at a paper mill for example or a food plant showing cars come in and go out? You would have a huge volume of modelers following you and serving up more suggestions than you could imagine.
I prefer a small layout with artistic design and realistic detail, points of interest, realistic buildings and scenery, rather than a giant, boring 100% accurate to the operating system of the prototype. But what do I know.
If we just build pretend jobs in our layouts we can have pretend functioning middle class economy... It still be more real than the globalist "build back better" and metaverse.
@@djstrains The metaverse is a new distraction for the normies... bread and circuses to distract the middle class plebs from how the ruling class plundered the middle class plebs into Neo-Feudalism. The regime is building the metaverse so they don't have to fix the real world.
Understand, but it serves as a couple purposes. First, it is great to learn scratch building, selective compression, and capturing scenes. It also provides motivation for people who don't start a layout because they dont have a huge basement. I hope that one day he can incorporate it into a larger space, because can you imagine how awesome it will be!!!
I can appreciate that it might not work for you, but I can tell you that I am still enjoying it over a year after those photos were taken. (yes, it is my layout :-D ). It has been designed for both operations (like DJ noted) as well as Inglenook -- and since I enjoy puzzles a lot, the inglenook was a prefect fit for me. So I flip back and forth (Puzzle for a month or so, and then operations for a month or so). This was also my first attempt at any modeling, so the small size was perfect for both keeping cost down and keeping it approachable. Some details that DJ did not share that are related to the layout: 1) I live in a small home with 3 kids, wife, pets, etc ...any bigger is not a option (at least until the kiddos move out LOL) 2) There is a turnout in the back left corner (behind the building). That turnout allows me to add a piece of track (a cassette) and serves as the interchange track with Conrail/CSX when doing operations. It will also (maybe one day) allow me to add it to a larger layout one day, but as pointed out, it is not nec. for my my enjoyment of this layout.
I love the way you narrate. Sharing expertise and educating. Guiding the audience to observe. Great stuff! Gary
Thank you so much!
WHEMCO, through its five operating companies, is a world-wide supplier of heavy industrial components for the metals, power generation, mining, and shipbuilding industries.
How can anyone not Like this video! "Come on man!"
I have a few haters that subscribe and get notifications just so they can thumbs down me. I just laugh that this is their life. Pathetic.
@@djstrains but it's just not right! I enjoy all your information you bring to model railroadimg!
I love seeing this as I feel it helps to preserve the history of our heavy industries. Even if it’s just a static display,and only a portion of a past steel mill for example,the history is kept alive. Thanks for sharing this.
Well said!
Hidden-loop serving as a **runaround** -- How Brilliant!!! 😊❤
exactly!
@@djstrains except that he doesn't need a runaround. This is a circular variation on the classic Ingelnook switching puzzle, where everything is switched from one side.
Kevin did a fantastic job capturing that huge complex in such a small space! Thanks for sharing DJ!
thanks! I appreciate the compliment !
Thanks for watching!
Hi ya DJ. What a great inspiration. Kevin did a fantastic job. Thanks for sharing. See ya.
Thank! not 100% done, but close :-D
Your right about the smaller layouts, mine too is 2x3’ but I’ve turned into a nature run with a small town setting on a plateau which below that are tunnels. I’ve build it with a few turnouts which two are spurs so I can add onto those to make another module and maybe another, the possibilities are endless, gotta love N scale. Ron
Sounds great!
the guy that made that is creative, imagine what he could do with a bit more space!
Got some more space for me??? LOLOL. Thank you so much !! -Kevin
DJn love the last building, it shows how Steven I a small space it real life they get creative. Those small spaces on your layout can fi
fit a industries 👍👍👍😀
Like it 👍👍👍keep them coming
17,600 total YT competitive railfanning foamer points awarded for the drone footage and railfanning capture 👍
Great video DJ. Like Gary mentioned in his comments, I also really enjoy your narration. You are so good at describing things (as well as modeling!).
the blooper reel says otherwise, lol.
Thank you so much for this video, DJ! My own HO layout is only 1 x 6 feet, so it was great to see this small N layout. I especially like how the builder used a blue sky divider/backdrop at the back of the buildings, similar to how a peninsula is divided on large layouts. Very clever and gives a good effect.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I would like to see some photos of your layout. I just subscribed to your channel.
@@harperlarry49 You can see photos of my layout on Facebook as they are public. It's under my name as shown here.
Thanks Andrew! (I painted both sides of that divider, so in that back left corner I have an area where I can do a "woods" scene. I plan on just trying some techniques back there - and it is 'out of sight' from the Mill side view. )
@@KevinSquire Even better to have two sides, again like a peninsula. Good luck on your trees. Also, congrats on your scratchbuilt buildings based on a prototype. I've found I like building structures almost more than any other aspect of the hobby. Cheers!
Thanks DJ !!!! You made my layout seem way cooler than it is !! :-D Pretty sure I have watched this video now 10 times -- pretty neat listening to someone else describe your own layout. (and thank you everyone for your compliments!)
You deserve the recognition and compliments! It is everything I have been trying to tell people for years, you summed up perfectly!
Thanks for showing these small layouts I have very limited space to use. So all of these small ones are of interest to me So thanks DJ . And thanks to Gentgeen for sharing.
Glad it was helpful!
I really see what you mean by catching the feel. He did an excellent job.
I agree, my friend!
One thing remarkable about the layout is that there's a lot of open space on it. It's not cramped, which you might expect on a very small layout. It makes for a relaxed, realistic feel. It's a real nice layout.
Thanks for that compliment!
Excellent informative video full of great ideas. the layout your friend built is brilliant.
Glad you enjoyed it
Another terrific video. Glad to see Westinghouse.
More to come!
One word - WOW!!!
Great looking mini-layout! Always enjoy your videos! Thanks for sharing! I took some notes as the details are great!
Awesome, thank you!
Thanks for sharing. I grew up in Pittsburgh during the Heyday of the US Steel and Clairton Coke works. The videos recalled good memories
I have great videos for you. See my channels PLAYLIST for STEEL. Drone videos of those areas!
I visited a printing plant in Connecticut years ago and was amazed by the train bringing in those rolls of paper. Just so realistic on a small scale. Have to get back into n gauge!
SWPA is a treasure-trove of inspiration for industrial scenes. Thanks for sharing.
Hi DJ I've been with you for the past few years. Thank you for sharing this 🙏 ❤
I appreciate that
Always like watching your videos. Always so interesting and informative.
I appreciate that!
Several years ago I transitioned from large layouts to a series of smaller projects: modulars, switching operations on narrow shelf layouts, and dioramas. I found that I could really focus on the details when I tightened my focus. My scenery skills improved, along with my weathering. I was a much happier modeler when I had fewer distractions.
THIS!!!! 100%!!!!!
I’ve always loved the maze of tracks in heavy industry.
That is an awesome little layout!
Thanks Steve!!! (I am kevin :-D ) ... I love your little layouts too -Amazing work, and they have definitely also been some inspiration for me!
I think so too!
100% correct as far as under the bed. I had a 4x8 H.O. scale christmas layout.
Queen size bed fits 4x6 no problem.
I had 4x6 under the bed and a 2x4 in the closet. They bolted together and made my 4x8 and after Christmas it made for easy storage.
excellent!
RE WHEMCO & MESTA MACHINE: My mother wirked at Mesta during WWII as a machineist's helper. They were making driveshafts and bulkheads for battle ships. Later, as a teenager, I watched from the hill top across the river as fireless cookers sere travelling back and forth on the tracks that you showed.
Thank you for sharing that memory with the viewers. Good stuff!!
I once read that George Westinghouse gave his plans for the air break to the world for free.
Another great vid! Thanks, it reminds me to include one or two.
Yes, small distinctive structures in the midst of other plainer buildings / scenes become a vignette unto themselves. A few people out front brings them alive.
Hi DJ, Being a space deprived modeler, as you know, I'm really enjoying Kevin Squire's posting on the Iron City N Scale Facebook page. His layout is the second micro layout I've seen built using the Kato 7" radius curves and sharp radius turnouts. The other was a layout on the Train Board N scale site. Very nice video DJ, the drone footage is fantastic and gives us all a view not often seen from ground level. I also want to take this time to wish You and Your family a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving. Cheers, Rich S.
Same to you and Susie, my friend.
That is a very well done model.
I always liked GungHo! Parts of it were filmed in Beaver PA as well. The scene at the gazebo and the part where the Japanese guy goes into the river to freak out and Michael Keaton goes in after him. That was the Beaver river at the bridge between bridgewater and Rochester.
Love it! Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great tutorial on physical to model layout ,brilliant thanks for sharing your quality content 👍
Many thanks
Lovely layout your friend Kevin did, small but huge on detail, most small layouts are jam packed with items...less is more as they say! 😁👍☘
I totally agree!
Always great to be inspired by you. Thank, DJ.
I appreciate that!
That’s spectacular. Thanks for the inspiration DJ.
Thanks, missed you at train shows.
my favorite small layout
me too
Very Nice !!!!!
Thank you very much!
"You make me raff" Times change, but for a lot things, not so much. Great movie
I did HO when I was really too young to be messing with raw wires and transformers. Getting back into it. This is a very fine channel. Thank you
That’s awesome
Excellent footage and modeling ideas! Thanks DJ.
My pleasure!
Another great vid DJ, compression modeling 👍👋😎🛤🚂
Glad you enjoyed it
Another fantastic video! You are really an inspiration. I love the way you encourage all of us to engage the hobby no matter what our level of skill. It really makes me want to do more. You should think about becoming a teacher when you retire-at a railroad college. I am sure that students could learn a great deal from your experience and you have a natural gift of being able to explain and encourage at the same time. Believe me, I know it is a gift!
Thank you so much!
Very Cool! The Dura-Bond mill is my family's business. He did an excellent job on the model.
HI JASON!!! You are part of a great family that did an amazing thing by saving the turtle creek railroad for so many years. I have a few videos on it. We rail fans are grateful for your family's efforts!
ua-cam.com/video/bja3DWyHk28/v-deo.html.
ua-cam.com/video/M0jJFYx6hnA/v-deo.html
@@djstrains Thanks for the links. I miss the railroad as it was part of history. It just got too expensive to maintain with hardly any business. Derailments were frequent and hard on the people that worked the line. 462, as you know, lives on at our McKeesport mill and we have plenty of tracks to run on there. 550 was scrapped. We switch thousands of cars at our Steelton, PA pipe mill as well. Thanks for keeping the memories alive!
Thank you so much!!!! (that is my little layout).
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
BTW, I love your drone videos!
More to come!
Great video of a single industry theme layout in a small space. Nowadays you could use a trackmobile as the power unit although the 44 tonner is a neat little loco. Thanks DJ.
Very true!
@@djstrains.......in the not too distant past, there was an Alco C415 running around an industrial site in KY along the Ohio River, but it may have been retired by now. Lots of options for power at an industrial site.
Great footage and information. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Came across your video. This is such a great videos great ideas and I like the super detailed job. Definitely giving inspiration to get moving
Looks great DJ!!!!
Great video dj thank you 😊 your friends layout is so cool 😃
I think so too!!
Terrific footage, and in the end you demonstrated a modeling opportunity. I think this aspect got a little overlooked for the Westinghouse and plant afterward...
Those long buildings could be modeled along a backdrop. The building being printed/painted, or mocked up with styrene, and the angled sections projecting out for car spots. That would give the "feel" and appearance of a large industry with less than 2" of depth in N scale. Also, a GREAT detail is seen @3:55 with the notched overhang that was clearly made to allow the passage of rail cars. That's a detail you RARELY see on a model railroad.
Overall this was a good instructional opportunity for modelers to replicate a LARGE industry in a small space (like along a backdrop, then there could be a siding or 2-3 track yard in the foreground, with the fencing, brush, and some trees to separate it from the business to create visual depth). I think these could be WELL represented on a shelf possibly 10-12 inches deep. :)
100%!!!!!!
I used to work for a company that had an office in the WABCO building. Cool beans!
Cheers and Happy Thanksgiving!
Whipple
Very cool!
Localy we had a curved track that served a United Van lines and a Dupont chemical warehouses with a curved doc, that is on my to do list.
we were just talking about Dupont the other day. crazy.
URR unfortunately does not use the track along the river at the beginning. Just the tracks in the south end of the industrial park where the switch Value Added and Millcraft
Thanks for that info. Appreciated!
Hi DJ,
A question for you, rather heavy, but, if I may (since you have such incredible insight into train operations).
How do you think our country could get real trains more involved in transport of goods in general. Trains are so much more fuel efficient than trucks(I believe about 75 percent more efficient).
Also, thank you for this thoughtful video!
Phillip Roe
I have a friend that oversees the trucking industry. He fears the prospect of the Railroads becoming unified. East West is one issue but individual North South lines do not integrate well and therefore make trucking more time efficient. The families/Corporations controlling the N S lines are opposed to integration. Just my observation to start the conversation.
The railroads are run by hedge funds. CSX is owned by MANTLE RIDGE hedge fund. They downsized and cut man power and engines and more to the bare minimum, to appease stock holders and to sell when ready. They never want to grow business, only maximize profits from existing business.
Thank you DJ and JAG 52 for your insights into the train and trucking business!
Perhaps someday someone will capitalize on this greater efficiently and
things will change(I won't bet on it though after your comments)
Take care
Phillip
The Westinghouse factory in this video was part of Westinghouse electric, I think it was an entirely different company from the air brake. That's where they built large generators for powerplants.
crap, I totally forgot that part. I have wilmerding footage, which I was going to add, so I must have had that on the brain, lol.
I have a photo, circa 1976, of D Aisle showing the generators being manufactured.
Yep. Same founder but two different companies. The drone footage is phenomenal for capturing the factories. Plenty more plants up and down all the rivers. Much of them are rarely photographed. This is great work to get them before they are gone.
Btw, the huge Schnabel flatcars worked Westinghouse Electric, and the equally impressive Pennsy heavy duty, multi-trucked flatcars worked Mesta and everywhere their large forgings were used.
Great vids!
Thanks for the video. Small/micro layouts are underrated and can provide a lot of fun to build and operate. Those compact curves are great for it, too. I have an N scale BLI CSX SD40-2 and tried it (for fun) on those 7” curves and it actually negotiated them! However, I would not recommend it for a permanent layout.
Totally agree!
I like the idea of disused rail lines running off from a used line. Call me strange..😂
Pretty cool!
Thanks to this video, I discovered a Michaei Keaton movie that I have never seen. Good movie
It's so good!
0:51 looks like it caught fire at one point
So many main UA-cam railfan channels all up east and I’m here in Texas like…Norfolk southern and CSx? We’re all about Up and BNsF down here. Drive through port of Houston every week and I see every railway you can think of even see a CP and CN being switched out by bluebonnet and a cascade green.
Johnstown PA. My hometown.
I hope to model a portion of the C&NW (Cheap & Nothing Wasted) that serviced an automotive plant. Depending on the era everything from raw materials in to finished automobiles out. Having worked there I know well getting the facility reasonably modeled would require a large amount t of room. So selective compression is in order.
the green pipes represent already coated (epoxy); I rewound plenty Westinghouse. Scale reality for HO means I should buy the next 2 neighbors' houses, knock out walls, build bridge, for my scale location--just a thought. hah-hah
The ideal location for a model railroad club would be a disused Big Box store or shopping mall. That way they could put some actual distance and time between destinations
@@mpetersen6 Have you seen the price of real estate now? Especially with hedge funds buying it all up. "Build back better" Neo-Feudalism.
Just the exterior shots were filmed at the old Mesta Machine buildings for the Gung Ho movie. The interior factory shots took place in the Shadyside stamping plant in Shadyside, Ohio and in the Fiat plant in Córdoba, Argentina.
AHHH!! That didn't know!
Whemco gets q car here and there still usually special stuff they still make steel mill products rollers etc
I believe Whemco does some kind of steel rolling.
DJ, you should get into the motivational speaker game, your calm voice and easy way of speaking suggests that whatever you are talking about is dead easy to do, you must be a killer Dad.
When my time comes, that is the only thing I want on my tombstone. "He loved his little girl". Trains mean nothing
@@djstrains I read that as "trombone" and got _so_ confused.
Do you have other industry videos. No one does this for the hobby. I model the same way. Group of industries connected by my track. With a yard to hold cars. Unique ways to store and introduce additional cars.
I do this for the hobby. I have 300 videos for 10 years where I teach all that I know as an engineer for 23 years. A few years ago I got my drone and my part 107 license. I haven't used the drone for much else except help a friend with a music video and another person with a music video. I was asked to do a roof siding company promo soon, but my heart is in teaching railroad stuff since I grew up pre internet and had NO IDEA how things worked.
ou will be very successful if you can film an industry or two showing them switching out cars and spotting cars. Currently no one is doing this with regularity except I have JT starting to show a few. But he is on the ground.
If you spent a while at a paper mill for example or a food plant showing cars come in and go out? You would have a huge volume of modelers following you and serving up more suggestions than you could imagine.
i play train sims and model ho trains i love industry and yard buildings
When did railroads start using the black membranes at fueling locations?
Great question, I never remember a specific year, they just kinda were there and I never noticed them until more recent years.
@@djstrains Thanks and Happy holidays' 🙂
I prefer a small layout with artistic design and realistic detail, points of interest, realistic buildings and scenery, rather than a giant, boring 100% accurate to the operating system of the prototype. But what do I know.
Hope you do an update on your layout
Yes, soon.
How sad, an industry between two Class I railroads that uses neither.
If we just build pretend jobs in our layouts we can have pretend functioning middle class economy... It still be more real than the globalist "build back better" and metaverse.
5,000 giggle points for metaverse reference
@@djstrains The metaverse is a new distraction for the normies... bread and circuses to distract the middle class plebs from how the ruling class plundered the middle class plebs into Neo-Feudalism. The regime is building the metaverse so they don't have to fix the real world.
Great footage but your drone film footage appears over exposed.
Yeah, that turtle creek one I got home and viewed it back, and was like, damn! I color corrected some footage hoping to make it salvageable.
Checkout Chuck Geiger UA-cam channel. He has done a lot of 2foot x 4 foot n-scale layouts with switching on one side and a bridge scene on the other.
will do!
Today's Trib reports that the coal-powered Keystone and Conemaugh generating plants will be closing by 2028.
I'll try to get more footage.
This is neat and all, but unless this was connected to a series of modules it would get old really fast imo.
Understand, but it serves as a couple purposes. First, it is great to learn scratch building, selective compression, and capturing scenes. It also provides motivation for people who don't start a layout because they dont have a huge basement. I hope that one day he can incorporate it into a larger space, because can you imagine how awesome it will be!!!
Kinda like your comment
I can appreciate that it might not work for you, but I can tell you that I am still enjoying it over a year after those photos were taken. (yes, it is my layout :-D ). It has been designed for both operations (like DJ noted) as well as Inglenook -- and since I enjoy puzzles a lot, the inglenook was a prefect fit for me. So I flip back and forth (Puzzle for a month or so, and then operations for a month or so). This was also my first attempt at any modeling, so the small size was perfect for both keeping cost down and keeping it approachable. Some details that DJ did not share that are related to the layout: 1) I live in a small home with 3 kids, wife, pets, etc ...any bigger is not a option (at least until the kiddos move out LOL) 2) There is a turnout in the back left corner (behind the building). That turnout allows me to add a piece of track (a cassette) and serves as the interchange track with Conrail/CSX when doing operations. It will also (maybe one day) allow me to add it to a larger layout one day, but as pointed out, it is not nec. for my my enjoyment of this layout.