As a retired logger, I found this video very unique. Excellent job in the making of the video. People these days don't have any idea of the hard work that went into these logging jobs.
My grandfather started in a logging camp about 1920 in northern Washington and then British Columbia, and eventually in Southeastern Alaska. He worked at one logging job or another for the next 50 years. At the beginning of that time he worked with the draft horse teams that pulled the logs. Eventually he operated the steam donkey engines that replaced the draft horses. The steam donkeys probably made the work even more dangerous due to the increased power the steam engine produced. Grandpa talked about the injuries and the men killed when a steel cable would snap and went through anything within range like a modern day weed eater! I believe the bulldozers came in during the md-thirties but I'm not certain of the dates. Choke setters had one of the most dangerous jobs in the business. They were the new guys that fastened the steel cables around the downed logs, and if they lived long enough, they moved into slightly less dangerous jobs. For a logger from the early 20th century to survive to retirement with all his limbs intact was an accomplishment. My grandfather was born in 1898 and passed away on October 14, 1990, in his early 90s. He still had all the limbs he was born with. He said he'd been very careful but was also pretty lucky. Grandpa and I spent many hours talking after he had retired, about his history. Those fascinating hours could easily have come straight out of one of Jack London's stories! You're certainly right, Robert. Unless you've experienced it or had exposure to one of the men who lived in those times and survived the extremely dangerous life, you just couldn't grasp that reality.
@@terrystotzheim9719 Thanks Terry. I appreciate the thought. He was a very warm person when I came along... a bit stubborn! My dad said that's genetic among the Swedes...all the while, my Mother was standing behind him nodding her head with a smirk, quietly agreeing, "he got that right!"🤣👍
What an absolutely phenomenal presentation. Exemplary descriptions. Stellar media content. Beautiful model display design. Well done. Just perfect. Mr. Burgess, my hat goes off to you, Sir.
@@garyhartley3680 he said the logging company put the power back into the electric companys grid, dynamic puts that excess into resistors that get fan cooled as heat waste. looking at the truck sets i do not see any motor components to be able to dynamic break. also with the cable and the cable engines there's very little reason to invent dynamic breaking for their set up. i did see some swirl on the inside of the wheels sets tho but that looked like helical gearing, but again none of the photos showed any electrical motors, so i imagine it is possible they did, but i can't tell from the photos.
The Shay locomotive was originally built by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio. My father was a service repair technician with the company for Shays. The company was bought by the Baldwin Locomotive Works and became Baldwin Lima Hamilton building cranes and power shovels. My entire family except mother worked there for different periods of time. In the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan is another Lima Locomotive, one of the largest steam engines ever built.
I went on a search in Lima, Ohio for remains of the Lima Locomotive Works many years ago. None of the works buildings exist anymore. But I did find a Shays locomotive on display downtown.
Thanks so much for creating this great video. I was thrilled to see pictures of my great uncle Jim Law. I visited him many times growing up and was always fascinated with his home at the bottom of one of the old inclines nestled next to the Merced river. My grandfather, Bob Jirsa, was a conductor on the YV from the 20s until it shut down in the 40s. Sad day when they ran the last train out. My great grandfather (Jim Law’s father) worked for the lumber company and raised his family on top of the incline in a tent cabin during the season. Story is told that my grandmother would ride the empty cars down to the bottom. She met my grandfather Bob Jirsa riding on the YV and had a wonderful life together. So thank you again for helping appreciate what their work life was like.
Dan... Thank you for your kind comments. I have been researching the YV for the past 50 years and first met Jim Law in the early 1970s. We would visit Jim every time we visited Yosemite NP and he would tell us interesting stories. I have built an HO scale model railroad of the Yosemite Valley Railroad and it includes most of the buildings which were in Incline including Jim's house, the station, etc. It has cast figures representing both Jim and his father. They are included in a UA-cam video of my layout: ua-cam.com/video/EHGkZHLqALY/v-deo.html You might find it interesting... Jack Burgess
I'm 70 years old my friends and I used to hop freight trains that ran through the town I grew up in have been a rail all my life this is a great presentation well done never realized how logging was done on the gre!at northwest ill say it again what a great 👍 job !!!
I have a hard time imagining the amount of labor required to construct one of these operations. From roadbed building to hoist house construction to all the ancillary structures. Amazing. Great video.
Thank you for this video....so interesting...l'm in my 80s, and Yosemite is a huge part of my girlhood, so tho living in the Ozarks now, a trip down memory lane is most welcomed.
That's pretty neat.👍🙂..I'm a sawmill worker myself..trimmer operator..and..i like seeing and learning the history of this type of work from back in earlier times..
Absolutely fascinating!! I lived in Groveland back in the 1980's and remember the mighty sugar pines so well. You have done a great service by recording the glory days of California logging. UA-cam at its very, very best.
As. Child growing up, my father worked in the logging industry. He was a Jack of all trades…. Meaning he did several different jobs from running heavy equipment, climbing trees, cutting down, even hauling to the mills. I remember the ponds overflowing with logs waiting to be cut or transported somewhere else. I was only allowed to go with him at certain times & had to stay in the truck. A Very hard job & many accidents. Thank you for sharing this. 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
This movie was absolutely priceless to me. I was never one for the lumber railroads history and never really understood how they worked. I am totally taken back by the incredible ingenuity and backbone of these railroad men. This work was not for the faint of heart for sure. Thank you for a great education.
Thank you, that was a very entertaining presentation. The engineering involved in these systems is very impressive and sophisticated. The distance, weights and volumes were huge. They apparently operated for close to 40 years. The scale boggles my mind. Again thank you,
Thank you Harold! I totally agree with you! I was a civil engineer as was the designer of both inclines but he also was able to design the wire ropes used on the inclines as well as the loads on the rollers between the rails at the top of the incline as a loaded car started down the incline! Jack Burgess
My grandfather worked there in the late ‘30’s. He ran a donkey at one time. He had his knee crushed loading either a flat car or a truck, I don’t recall. Not a convenient place for a major injury. Thanks for this video.
Just watched this in amazement. My grandfather & partner were in the lumber business in Orange, Texas and western LA in the late 1800s & early 1900s (Lutcher & Moore Lumber Co.) Their railroad operation brought yellow pine logs to the Sabine River mill at Orange. However, the land there was flat; they certainly didn't have to contend with steep inclines. Thank you for this presentation.
Very interesting video. Credit to you excellent presentation. Really enjoyed watching. As a young lad I used to walk up a lane that followed the line of the first incline plane in the UK. Nothing like those on your presentation 👌.
Awesome job sir! who the hell would give this a thumbs down? both my Grandfathers logged from about 1915 into the 60's I never new about the incline logging, now I do thanks to you.
Just a great video of how men really worked at one point in our country, so interesting and beautiful in that rugged terrain, thanks so much for making this video.
Hard to wrap-your-mind around this feat…in simplicity of thought, easy-peasy job where logs are just moved downhill to a sawmill operation 🤷🏻♂️💁♂️. The scope and complexity of this is simply MIND BOGGLING…😳😵💫😬 Wonderful presentation showing such engineering brilliance, build skill AND operating/ maintenance ingenuity…👏🏻👍🏻👊
Jim...I have done two videos on details on my layout, many of which are based on prototype photos. They are at: Details 1 ua-cam.com/video/4H9NdXt2vFE/v-deo.html Details 2 ua-cam.com/video/xiWCph1sXRc/v-deo.html Jack Burgess
I enjoyed the video of the logging operation in Yosemite. I have visited Yosemite twice and always wondered how the logging operation worked. As I travel and hike in the Rocky Mountains I would think similar logging methods were used to log the forest. As I hike In the mountains I look for the big trees but realize that they were all logged back in the early 1900’s. Great research and documentation of a long gone industry.
Very much enjoyed this presentation and your knowledge of the lumbering operations. The lift house photos made me thing of the Basswood brake shoe I made for the Avery Island Salt mine in Louisiana. Still in use today I expect.
I was just in Jackson Hole & we drove the Teton Pass to Victor, Idaho. The most breathtaking scenery. The mountains are crazy steep. This is incredible.
Thanks so much on your excellent presentation about logging and especially inclines. I visited a Diamond Match incline remains on Butte Creek in Butte County CA some years ago. It was certainly not nearly as long as the one in incline, CA, and seeing it raised a lot of questions that you answered. I also was able to ride the cable car incline on Lookout Mtn just west of Chattanooga TN. It was interesting to see the cable and supporting structures in action. Your modeling looked real, amazing. Thanks again, k
Absolutely REMARKABLE. Amazing, in fact. I was a ranger in Yosemite and lived at El Portal. I knew nothing of the history of the railroad other than the old Shay locomotive on display at one end of the town. The most amazing part of this video, however, are the pictures of his model railroad layout. What remarkable detail. People who have the talent to do that kind of work amaze me. Thank you for sharing this with us. As for UA-cam . . . . the ads that pop up in the middle of a high quality presentation like this are absolutely nauseating. They make it very difficult to watch many of the outstanding presentations featured. I pledge to NEVER watch an ad all the way through and to NEVER patronize one of the advertisers. If there are others out there who feel as I do, I hope you will add your comments every time you get a chance. Maybe if enough of us do it, the powers that run UA-cam will get the idea. Save the ads for either before or after the feature.
L. Dalton... You can see more of my model railroad layout on UA-cam (yes, with the same disgusting ads). I can't provide a link but just search UA-cam for "Jack Burgess Yosemite Valley Railroad". You can also Google the same words which will lead you to my website. There is a layout tour under "Modeling/Virtual Layout Tour" with a few more photos of El Portal. Jack Burgess
There are two possible workarounds for not having to watch ads: 1) UA-cam has a paid thing that removes the ads. I can't remember what they call it, but it's something like 10 bucks a month. It lets you watch ad-free. 2) Members of the TSG Train Crew on Patreon get sneak peeks of most new releases weeks or months ahead of time. These previews are ad free and in 4K Ultra High Definition. Other than that, it's just about skipping the ads if you don't like to see them. Unfortunately, UA-cam changed their rules and informed us (creators) that they would be putting ads on any videos they wanted to put them on, regardless of the creator's wishes.
@@tsgmultimedia Yes, they have actually tagged some ads on a couple of videos I have on there. But at least those were only right at the beginning and weren't slapped indiscriminately into the middle of the video. It's the ones in the middle that really grouch me out.
One thing that's amazing to me was that all those logs/ trees were cut by hand. What an incredible video you have produced here. Thanks for all your hard work. People simply have no idea of the difficulty of life and hard work of our ancestors. When men were men.
Thanks my friend.....This is outstanding awesome in ever way.....Your models are truly awesome in every way to....Work done logging is l thing the hardest work of all....Beautiful pictures of the way it was back many years ago....Once again thanks....!
thank you you have outdone most videos that i have seen, coming from a logger and the changes i have seen, anytime you think you have it rough just look back at how these folks lived
Fantastic job on this film! I've watched lots of old train documentaries here on the tube but I've never seen one that was about this vertical logging... I had no idea it existed! Thanks for posting, and your models are really cool!!
My Grandfather received a color 8 mm video camera for high school graduation in 1940 the videos are something to behold...
As a retired logger, I found this video very unique. Excellent job in the making of the video. People these days don't have any idea of the hard work that went into these logging jobs.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Amen to that!!!
My grandfather started in a logging camp about 1920 in northern Washington and then British Columbia, and eventually in Southeastern Alaska. He worked at one logging job or another for the next 50 years. At the beginning of that time he worked with the draft horse teams that pulled the logs. Eventually he operated the steam donkey engines that replaced the draft horses. The steam donkeys probably made the work even more dangerous due to the increased power the steam engine produced. Grandpa talked about the injuries and the men killed when a steel cable would snap and went through anything within range like a modern day weed eater! I believe the bulldozers came in during the md-thirties but I'm not certain of the dates.
Choke setters had one of the most dangerous jobs in the business. They were the new guys that fastened the steel cables around the downed logs, and if they lived long enough, they moved into slightly less dangerous jobs. For a logger from the early 20th century to survive to retirement with all his limbs intact was an accomplishment. My grandfather was born in 1898 and passed away on October 14, 1990, in his early 90s. He still had all the limbs he was born with. He said he'd been very careful but was also pretty lucky.
Grandpa and I spent many hours talking after he had retired, about his history. Those fascinating hours could easily have come straight out of one of Jack London's stories! You're certainly right, Robert. Unless you've experienced it or had exposure to one of the men who lived in those times and survived the extremely dangerous life, you just couldn't grasp that reality.
@@MrGaryGG48 that is sooo awesome! Glad you had your grandfather for such a long time!
@@terrystotzheim9719 Thanks Terry. I appreciate the thought. He was a very warm person when I came along... a bit stubborn! My dad said that's genetic among the Swedes...all the while, my Mother was standing behind him nodding her head with a smirk, quietly agreeing, "he got that right!"🤣👍
What an absolutely phenomenal presentation. Exemplary descriptions. Stellar media content. Beautiful model display design. Well done. Just perfect. Mr. Burgess, my hat goes off to you, Sir.
Incredible engineering for the time period -- even regenerative braking!
Wonderful layout.
I look forward to seeing more.
dynamic breaking
@@garyhartley3680 he said the logging company put the power back into the electric companys grid, dynamic puts that excess into resistors that get fan cooled as heat waste. looking at the truck sets i do not see any motor components to be able to dynamic break. also with the cable and the cable engines there's very little reason to invent dynamic breaking for their set up.
i did see some swirl on the inside of the wheels sets tho but that looked like helical gearing, but again none of the photos showed any electrical motors, so i imagine it is possible they did, but i can't tell from the photos.
What a great presentation. Learned a lot about mountain logging.
Man, you’ve outdone just about everyone else on UA-cam with this. There was only problem as I saw it, it ended way too soon
The Shay locomotive was originally built by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio. My father was a service repair technician with the company for Shays. The company was bought by the Baldwin Locomotive Works and became Baldwin Lima Hamilton building cranes and power shovels. My entire family except mother worked there for different periods of time. In the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan is another Lima Locomotive, one of the largest steam engines ever built.
A Berkshire? Is the large engine a Berkshire. IIRC, Baldwin/Lima built them.
I went on a search in Lima, Ohio for remains of the Lima Locomotive Works many years ago. None of the works buildings exist anymore. But I did find a Shays locomotive on display downtown.
Northern Illinois Railway Museum has a working Lima Shay #14
Great story.
There are 2 or 3 shays at cass scenic railway in wv
Thanks so much for creating this great video. I was thrilled to see pictures of my great uncle Jim Law. I visited him many times growing up and was always fascinated with his home at the bottom of one of the old inclines nestled next to the Merced river. My grandfather, Bob Jirsa, was a conductor on the YV from the 20s until it shut down in the 40s. Sad day when they ran the last train out. My great grandfather (Jim Law’s father) worked for the lumber company and raised his family on top of the incline in a tent cabin during the season. Story is told that my grandmother would ride the empty cars down to the bottom. She met my grandfather Bob Jirsa riding on the YV and had a wonderful life together. So thank you again for helping appreciate what their work life was like.
Dan...
Thank you for your kind comments. I have been researching the YV for the past 50 years and first met Jim Law in the early 1970s. We would visit Jim every time we visited Yosemite NP and he would tell us interesting stories. I have built an HO scale model railroad of the Yosemite Valley Railroad and it includes most of the buildings which were in Incline including Jim's house, the station, etc. It has cast figures representing both Jim and his father. They are included in a UA-cam video of my layout:
ua-cam.com/video/EHGkZHLqALY/v-deo.html
You might find it interesting...
Jack Burgess
What an interesting story. Thanks for writing it.
Both the story of the railroad and the model are astounding.
I always enjoy watching Jack Burgess and I like learning about logging operations. Thanks John!
I'm 70 years old my friends and I used to hop freight trains that ran through the town I grew up in have been a rail all my life this is a great presentation well done never realized how logging was done on the gre!at northwest ill say it again what a great 👍 job !!!
I have a hard time imagining the amount of labor required to construct one of these operations. From roadbed building to hoist house construction to all the ancillary structures. Amazing. Great video.
Finally something worth watching on you tube!!
Thanks!
Thank you, too!
Thank you for this video....so interesting...l'm in my 80s, and Yosemite is a huge part of my girlhood, so tho living in the Ozarks now, a trip down memory lane is most welcomed.
That's pretty neat.👍🙂..I'm a sawmill worker myself..trimmer operator..and..i like seeing and learning the history of this type of work from back in earlier times..
What a wonderful history and engineering lesson....along with Jack's mindblowing research and modeling!
If you are interested, you can see my entire layout on UA-cam at
ua-cam.com/video/EHGkZHLqALY/v-deo.html
Jack
What a fantastic layout. So much more than the regular bridges, tunnels stations, etc.
Absolutely fascinating!! I lived in Groveland back in the 1980's and remember the mighty sugar pines so well.
You have done a great service by recording the glory days of California logging. UA-cam at its very, very best.
Awesome history lesson ! Thank you John and Jack.
As. Child growing up, my father worked in the logging industry. He was a Jack of all trades…. Meaning he did several different jobs from running heavy equipment, climbing trees, cutting down, even hauling to the mills. I remember the ponds overflowing with logs waiting to be cut or transported somewhere else. I was only allowed to go with him at certain times & had to stay in the truck.
A Very hard job & many accidents. Thank you for sharing this. 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
thank you for your time to put this video together...
What a treasure those old photos are. Give life you your excellent oral description. Your HO efforts not too shabby either. Well done, thanks.
Wow! Great presentation, thank you
This was MY pleasure to view. Thanks
Wow! Great presentation! Thank you for your time and work in making this video, injoyed watching.
This movie was absolutely priceless to me.
I was never one for the lumber railroads history and never really understood how they worked.
I am totally taken back by the incredible ingenuity and backbone of these railroad men.
This work was not for the faint of heart for sure. Thank you for a great education.
Thank you, that was a very entertaining presentation. The engineering involved in these systems is very impressive and sophisticated. The distance, weights and volumes were huge. They apparently operated for close to 40 years. The scale boggles my mind. Again thank you,
Thank you Harold! I totally agree with you! I was a civil engineer as was the designer of both inclines but he also was able to design the wire ropes used on the inclines as well as the loads on the rollers between the rails at the top of the incline as a loaded car started down the incline!
Jack Burgess
WOW the wonders of days gone by, some bloody nice logs there well worth the effort !
My grandfather worked there in the late ‘30’s. He ran a donkey at one time. He had his knee crushed loading either a flat car or a truck, I don’t recall. Not a convenient place for a major injury. Thanks for this video.
Outstanding history lesson about the men, equipment, and organizations that helped to build our country. Kudos!
Utterly fascinating. I can only express my genuine thanks.
Amazing video and models. Thank you for sharing this!
Many thanks for the very interesting film. Very nice model railway.😃👍👍
Thanks...if you are interested, you can see my entire layout on UA-cam at
ua-cam.com/video/EHGkZHLqALY/v-deo.html
Jack
Awesome ! Thank you for sharing this video !
One of the Marvels of Engineering Construction for its time. Thanks for sharing this with us all. 💯👍👏
just watched it again...fantastic!
That was great! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for posting this. It is a real part of the history of El Portal area.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Yes I really did enjoy the presentation.
Awesome, thank you!
Absolutely a Fantastic Presentation of America’s History !! 😊
What a great video and narrative. Jack, I love your photos, they really show what “when men where men” meant.
Absorbing account, great photographs, I was on the edge of my seat the whole time.
Glad you enjoyed it!
OH man I'll be Re-watch ing this 1 !!
Jack, thanks for the response and information!
Thank you so very much this was the greatest!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Loved this video John
I am very impressed. A lot of work putting this together. Thanks
Thanks so much. You have a great piece of our logging industry here.
Yeah, a world I'm fascinated by but have never had the opportunity to get involved in, wonderful!
Just watched this in amazement. My grandfather & partner were in the lumber business in Orange, Texas and western LA in the late 1800s & early 1900s (Lutcher & Moore Lumber Co.) Their railroad operation brought yellow pine logs to the Sabine River mill at Orange. However, the land there was flat; they certainly didn't have to contend with steep inclines. Thank you for this presentation.
Thank you, thanks Jack, this is the best videos i have seen on this type of logging. I absolutely loved the photos and video as well.
I'm glad that you liked it so much.
Jack Burgess
Outstanding information. Good old Yankee ingenuity. I love it. Thank you so much.
Your HO model Railroad of YV is Outstanding ! Very well done and scaled . Great Craftsmanship ... Thanks for the Video too
That was a real cool presentation! Thanks so much!!
Thank You for presenting this video.
Very nice Model railroad, you put a lot of detail into it.
I was absolutely enthralled by the history wrapped into the video.. What impressive engineering.
Very interesting video. Credit to you excellent presentation. Really enjoyed watching. As a young lad I used to walk up a lane that followed the line of the first incline plane in the UK. Nothing like those on your presentation 👌.
What a great, and informative video! Thank you!
Thank you Jack that was great!
Awesome job sir! who the hell would give this a thumbs down? both my Grandfathers logged from about 1915 into the 60's I never new about the incline logging, now I do thanks to you.
I have stood next to a Shay at the Pennsylvania lumber museum. Very cool machine. All wheels are driven.
Great video. THANKS for sharing!
You're welcome, and thanks for watching!
Just a great video of how men really worked at one point in our country, so interesting and beautiful in that rugged terrain, thanks so much for making this video.
this is so COOL!! i had no idea they did it like this. GOOD JOB on the documentation!
Hard to wrap-your-mind around this feat…in simplicity of thought, easy-peasy job where logs are just moved downhill to a sawmill operation 🤷🏻♂️💁♂️. The scope and complexity of this is simply MIND BOGGLING…😳😵💫😬 Wonderful presentation showing such engineering brilliance, build skill AND operating/ maintenance ingenuity…👏🏻👍🏻👊
Wonderful history lesson and oh what detail in that layout.
Jim...I have done two videos on details on my layout, many of which are based on prototype photos. They are at:
Details 1
ua-cam.com/video/4H9NdXt2vFE/v-deo.html
Details 2
ua-cam.com/video/xiWCph1sXRc/v-deo.html
Jack Burgess
Great video! Thanks for posting.
I enjoyed the video of the logging operation in Yosemite. I have visited Yosemite twice and always wondered how the logging operation worked. As I travel and hike in the Rocky Mountains I would think similar logging methods were used to log the forest. As I hike In the mountains I look for the big trees but realize that they were all logged back in the early 1900’s. Great research and documentation of a long gone industry.
Very Cool!!!!!! Love the whole thing from the history, to the restored films to the models at the end!
A fascinating operation. Thanks for sharing this!
Great job recording all of this for the sake of history. And presentation of the video 👍thx
Excellent man. Thank you very much.
Very much enjoyed this presentation and your knowledge of the lumbering operations. The lift house photos made me thing of the Basswood brake shoe I made for the Avery Island Salt mine in Louisiana. Still in use today I expect.
One of my favorite drive's from Turlock. You nailed it.......
I was just in Jackson Hole & we drove the Teton Pass to Victor, Idaho. The most breathtaking scenery. The mountains are crazy steep. This is incredible.
Excelent job! Very good fotos and beautiful model in HO scale!!! Thank you, that is a very entertaining presentation. From Rosario Argentina.
Now thats what I call a research vedio! What a great video.
You sir are a historical genius hats off to you
Thanks Todd...
Jack Burgess
Absolutely a wonderful video to watch and a look t your remarkable hobby thanks for sharing
Thanks so much on your excellent presentation about logging and especially inclines. I visited a Diamond Match incline remains on Butte Creek in Butte County CA some years ago. It was certainly not nearly as long as the one in incline, CA, and seeing it raised a lot of questions that you answered. I also was able to ride the cable car incline on Lookout Mtn just west of Chattanooga TN. It was interesting to see the cable and supporting structures in action. Your modeling looked real, amazing. Thanks again, k
Absolutely REMARKABLE.
Amazing, in fact. I was a ranger in Yosemite and lived at El Portal. I knew nothing of the history of the railroad other than the old Shay locomotive on display at one end of the town.
The most amazing part of this video, however, are the pictures of his model railroad layout. What remarkable detail. People who have the talent to do that kind of work amaze me.
Thank you for sharing this with us.
As for UA-cam . . . . the ads that pop up in the middle of a high quality presentation like this are absolutely nauseating. They make it very difficult to watch many of the outstanding presentations featured.
I pledge to NEVER watch an ad all the way through and to NEVER patronize one of the advertisers.
If there are others out there who feel as I do, I hope you will add your comments every time you get a chance.
Maybe if enough of us do it, the powers that run UA-cam will get the idea. Save the ads for either before or after the feature.
L. Dalton...
You can see more of my model railroad layout on UA-cam (yes, with the same disgusting ads). I can't provide a link but just search UA-cam for "Jack Burgess Yosemite Valley Railroad". You can also Google the same words which will lead you to my website. There is a layout tour under "Modeling/Virtual Layout Tour" with a few more photos of El Portal.
Jack Burgess
There are two possible workarounds for not having to watch ads:
1) UA-cam has a paid thing that removes the ads. I can't remember what they call it, but it's something like 10 bucks a month. It lets you watch ad-free.
2) Members of the TSG Train Crew on Patreon get sneak peeks of most new releases weeks or months ahead of time. These previews are ad free and in 4K Ultra High Definition.
Other than that, it's just about skipping the ads if you don't like to see them. Unfortunately, UA-cam changed their rules and informed us (creators) that they would be putting ads on any videos they wanted to put them on, regardless of the creator's wishes.
@@tsgmultimedia Yes, they have actually tagged some ads on a couple of videos I have on there. But at least those were only right at the beginning and weren't slapped indiscriminately into the middle of the video. It's the ones in the middle that really grouch me out.
One thing that's amazing to me was that all those logs/ trees were cut by hand. What an incredible video you have produced here. Thanks for all your hard work. People simply have no idea of the difficulty of life and hard work of our ancestors. When men were men.
Thanks for sharing you passion....much appreciated.
Thank you Jack, enjoyed it.
Superb Presentation !!
Excellent. Thank you for posting
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@tsgmultimedia I really did. Pretty crafty folks back then.
Wow. Such a magnificent presentation and editing skills shown here. I Especially enjoyed the models. The attention to detail is unbelievable
Truly enjoyable. But the best part was the final minutes with the models. Wow.
Thanks Steven...If you are interested, you can see my entire layout on UA-cam at
ua-cam.com/video/EHGkZHLqALY/v-deo.html
Jack Burgess
What a great presentation! Dave.
Thanks my friend.....This is outstanding awesome in ever way.....Your models are truly awesome in every way to....Work done logging is l thing the hardest work of all....Beautiful pictures of the way it was back many years ago....Once again thanks....!
If you are interested, you can see my entire layout on UA-cam at
ua-cam.com/video/EHGkZHLqALY/v-deo.html
Jack
Great work...what a passion this is for you and it shows....I enjoyed your video very much...
Regarding my passion, check out the video on my Yosemite Valley Railroad layout:
ua-cam.com/video/EHGkZHLqALY/v-deo.html
Jack Burgess
EXCELLENT video, thank you!
Thanks Arne...
Jack Burgess
Very informative, and excellent presentation. Thank you.
thank you you have outdone most videos that i have seen, coming from a logger and the changes i have seen, anytime you think you have it rough just look back at how these folks lived
Fantastic job on this film! I've watched lots of old train documentaries here on the tube but I've never seen one that was about this vertical logging... I had no idea it existed! Thanks for posting, and your models are really cool!!
If you are interested, you can see my entire layout on UA-cam at
ua-cam.com/video/EHGkZHLqALY/v-deo.html
Jack
that was worth a 10 star count thank you
Thank you. Very nice stuff. I learned a lot, which makes life worth living.
I was always interested in your log Incline, Jack. To see how the real ones operated is a real treat! Thanks Jack!!!