Operations | First Drop Offs in the New Layout Section
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- We're running the first OPS into Orange, the new section of the layout. We'll be doing some drop offs and talking about the 'vision' for the location.
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I'm glad that you mentioned Black Rifle Coffee Company, I just have to have them as our Coffee vendor on the Bonneville Industrial Terminal and Transfer.I also like how you have pictures above the area to be modeled. Since I'm modeling freelanced raillroad, I started to draw mine down to scale of how I envision my areas on my layout would look. Today I dree up a heli-pad for both life threatening emergencies and a place for helicopter's to fly in and grab water to fight forest fires. Then one of the Bonneville Industrial Terminal and Transfer's tow truck came in today with 40 non working rotary beacon lights for the trucks and locomomotives, then some more pallets for the heavy equiipment shop, last month I went overboard with buying 55 gallon drums from mini prints.
Keep on with the inspiring videos, I'm always looking forward to seeing them.
This is my favorite part of model railroading when you designing a section of a layout or a switching area and you put cardboard boxes, a couple of trees and kind of figure things out. Absolutely loving this. Can't wait to see the progress. You've been such an inspiration!🎉
Honestly I didn't watch the video from beginning to end. I actually watched a little here and there until I watched the whole video. Love what you are doing with this layout. So excited to see it PROGRESS.
I know this is only a test run, but in the future, the UP covered hopper would not go to Westpac. It is a grain hopper, the other two are for plastic pellets. Love the new section of your railroad. Looking forward to more videos.
Ah Yes Rick ! Black Rifle Coffee Company ! Sometimes You Just Need A Good Shot In The Morning ! 😎
Hey Rick, sweet test ops!! Looking good and the new addition is coming along nicely. Thanks for sharing and have a good night. Happy modeling!! -Jason
Hey Rick looks good 👍😊 the expansion really looks good it'll be good to see it come to life 😁 from the great state of Ohio
I grew up NE Philly and I remember hanging out Holmesburg JCT where the Bustleton Branch connect to the Northeast Corridor. The one big industry was Stone Containers where paper bags and cardboard boxes are made. There was also CW Thomas Injection plastic moldings received plastic pellets in covered hoppers.
Too confusing that Stone Containers makes containers out of paper. 😉
@@beeble2003 I apologize for being long winded, but when think about the old stomping grounds, I tend to not make sense trying tell a story from my past. BTW Excellent video
Four or five loading docks for your Black Rifle box would look pretty nice. Otherwise, the new section looks like a lot of fun!
Wow! that just awesome. Now you've got a whole railroad switching empire! Spectacular job.
Thank you very much!
The new section looks like a whole lot of fun Rick. I think you'll really appreciate not having to reach over to the back to throw those turnouts ones you get them set up.
Thanks for sharing. Can’t wait to see how the buildings blend in and tie the the back drops together……Great Job. Brewske
Thanks 👍
So glad to see you have that extension!!! Looking forward to seeing the second level!
Coming soon!
Very nice! I lived in Orange County as a kid back in the early 1960's. Remember the Beach Boys?
That's from have some fun on the new section can't wait to see how the season starts coming and the buildings for the 👍👍
Awesome video! The palms look killer. Some exciting progress you've got going on.
Nice Rick , great little show n tell , give us an idea of the operations ... cheers .
Benjamin shy as of late an keeping cool off camera... 😊 have a great weekend..
Greetings from your neighbour to the North. This is exciting. So glad to see it coming along nicely. So many operational possibilities.
Your extension is coming along nicely. You won't know if a move works without trying it, I'm sure there will be many. It will be interesting to see. Good luck Rick and have fun!
Perfection in progress...building flats would be unique with loading docks
Looks like hours of operational fun coming in the future . Can't wait !
Nice video, as always Rick. Might I give you a suggestion? Don't do too much work on the end of the new section before you add the second level. Construction of the second level will drop all sorts of dust and debris onto the "finished" section. Suggest you build the top section first and then compete the lower section. Just a thought to consider. As always great video, thanks for your time and effort. I enjoy watching.
For that bakc industry that goes across the road, a fun scenic idea, would be to lay ties, and leave the rail off as though the track got removed, like a lot of track did after the 96 merger with SP.
Like the palm trees. Your RailBox car has been dropped on the street!
How exciting to bring the new section to life!
Looks like you're off to a good start. Cant wait to see it evolve.
Greetings from across the pond, been following your extension waiting for the first session on it. It looks like you have hours of operational capabilities with the three areas now. Starting to develop nicely, looking forward to see you develop it going forwards. Great job and great inspiration for those of what can be done if you’re not happy with loops.
Hope you enjoy it!
Bravo 👏🏻 Your new section comes to life 🥳 And in such a little time 👍🏻
I find it motivating a lot to constantly work on a layout that is already operational 😊
Best wishes 😊
heya, Timber9705 mentioned the UP grain hopper, I thought I'd just add to the info. The Raty old CNW 5150 hopper should have the small round hatches on the roof if it's in Plastic pellet service. (see the bottom gates) hope you still have those.
Note that as a CNW car it's more likely for milled products or grains. Here's the problem with these. Athearn offered both
roof hatches, but not the proper bottom gates. A grain car should have trough roof hatches and slide bottom gates; not
the pneumatic ones for plastics. There is an aftermarket gate set for these cars to correct that. Let me know if you want
the part #.
Note: this is just some information I learned and wish I'd had shared with me at an earlier date. So would have more
correct models. That said, It's your RR! I have a friend, with a really nice, huge layout we operated on. He treated all
his covered hoppers the same. So a jumbo pellet car, might be as likely to show up at a cement plant; as the proper little 2 bay cars. Drove me nuts, and we had some good laughs with that. I don't know if he's ever fixed/changed that. Anyway
just passing the info along.
Stay cool, just along for the ride!. really enjoying to process of making scenes photogenic. (my layout is all operations)💨🏄♂
Great plans. looks very good so far.
Thanks!
Love that setup!
Looks like the new section will come with loads of fun! By the way, on silos and stuff on the indstry with hoppers, you could kitbash a lot of it with some
Love your vidéo i'm learning a lot on operation session,thank toi and i like your addition look nice and full of mouvement
Glad you like it
Are you going to bring back your staging tracks? Just do a cross over 45 degree type? Will add even more operational features.
Nice video, Rick! For crossing the Santa Anna river, check out Central Valley Model Works. They make some very nice bridge kits. They are not beginner kits, by any means, but an experienced modeler such as yourself shouldn't have any trouble with them. I built their 1901 truss bridge kit. It was work, but it came out really nice! Check 'em out!
Carl's not doing his job.
Idea. The back spur where it ends at the street, continue it but make it abandoned with overgrown grasses and debris?
You might need to put some bumpers on the ends of those tracks so you don't take a chance of your trains running off the end.
nice shakedown run rick... you're playing it SMART, by not gluing anything down and running some trains BEFORE you commit to anything
Awesome. Everything worked out perfectly.
But, I have a question. Doesn't WesPac receive or ship tank cars too? Maybe a second spur for a couple tankers at WesPac would really give you some operational challenges. That's just my thoughts. Otherwise it's looking great.
2nd guessing, I wonder if laying the main track diagonally down the length of the 8ft would look and work better... Could have omitted the joggle in the middle. FXI could be called "FIX" or "" FIXY" if you're dyslexic.
If a train falls, it’s just an excuse to buy a new one🤷🏻♂️ lol
Good afternoon Rick. Enjoying the videos of the new addition. Do you glue down your track or just nail and then possibly ballast?
I just tack it down with nails then ballast
You place a "no longer rail-served" industry on the end of that industry spur, then put either an OOS spur, or the remnants of one. Would give reason for tracks to extend through a road... help tell a story of local history so to speak
I don't understand how your second level is going to work. You say the trains will climb behind the backdrop, which is fine, but then you need to do a 180-degree turn and your boards aren't wide enough for that. Even with an absolute-minimum 18-inch radius, you need three feet in width to turn around; with a more comfortable 22-inch radius (a lot of cars and locomotives won't go around 18"), you need more like four feet, which is basically double the width of your baseboard.
Sorry that was not a road mark but a break in the table! My DUH
Operations can hinder progress on scenery. A thought will you have any spurs generally above street level. I do know that much of the area you’re modeling is flat.
most of the line is pretty flat in the real world.
There would an Army Box 😅
Started watching your videos four months ago and the bug bit me again I’m getting ready to commit to building a switching shelf do you use bamboo skewers for uncoupling?
I use chop sticks. Just sharpen the end.
Why not put a wye at the end of the yard.
no wye in the prototype
So, ya like living on the "edge", Just tell them that your middle name is "danger"
Totally Dig your idea of using mock ups and running some trains before the finished product.
One problem I'm having is trying to manipulate topography.
I do not want any grades on my layout, so I'm fighting with perspective.
As I have said before! Your videos are very inspiring, not sure if you have instagram but I have been posting layout updates on mine @boommanpaddy cheers!