Farmrail in HO Scale - Shelf Layout Operations on Valentines Day
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- Опубліковано 13 лют 2021
- My lovely wife joined me for a short, informal operating session on the layout. She was the "engineer" at the controls, while I planned the switching moves and threw the turnouts as the "conductor." This is a little different than my usual layout update videos. Model railroading is fun, and its even better with family. We had lots of fun running trains together (while we wait on our baby girl to be born any day now)!
Let me know in the comments how you like to operate your model trains if you're a modeler! Please like and subscribe if you enjoyed this! - Авто та транспорт
You guys are an awesome team. Beautiful layout and engineer. This is what model railroading is all about - a family affair. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you very kindly
I truly enjoyed this post. It reminded me of the times my late wife operated our layouts. She never modeled until she met me and within a year she was a scale modeler. Even to the point of building and costume work for friends and others. She was awesome.
Your late wife sounds like she was an awesome lady indeed! Thanks for watching.
I believe that after seeing this video, you are the envy of all married model railroaders my friend. There's no way I would get my wife to do something like this, not even for Valentines Day. lol Anyway, great video...really enjoyed this, and hope you both had a great rest of your Valentine's Day. Cheers!!
Congrats your wife was great engineer always helps to have a wife back up a mans love for the hobby she seams very kind love your layout good luck to u both in your future .
Well done, and awesome video! Enjoyed the operations tremendously. Didn't know the model railroad community had a power couple!! 😎 Best wishes to you and the family.
Haha, thanks for the kind words, Tolga!
Bravo! Your lovely wife is a great engineer. The layout is looking awesome as well - Boomer.
Thanks so much, and thanks for watching. She crushed it!
Well done guys, I really enjoyed watching that session all the way down here in Australia 🇦🇺 👍
Hard to find a woman that will deal with our hobby. But a woman that not only puts up with but runs trains with u. Man that's a womannu marry. Awesome video and layout looks awesome
That's great stuff awesome shelf layout well done cheers from Bruce. Blenheim south island new Zealand
That was great. And you are absolutely correct about her being lovely and amazing. My best wishes to you both and future family. Awesome!!
Thank you very much.
Dear Alex, lovely video, and your wife is a great loco engineer , expertly handled, Best wishes and regards from Australia.
That's a cool layout I like small layouts
Very nice shelf layout, thank you for making these videos. * subscribed *
And it's nice to see your wife enjoying model trains with you, and as I'm planning my first layout, I'm hoping my wife will find this hobby enjoyable enough for 1 or 2 operating sessions per month.
Awesome switching layout. Your wife is a real pro.
Great video to demonstrate you don't need a large layout to have a nice informal ops session. I hold both informal solo ops sessions, and host guest operators with a more structured ops session on my layout. The most important thing is to have fun and enjoy running trains. Now that is true love to have your wife operate the locomotive on Valentine's Day! She did a great job as engineer, now the conductor on the other hand may need a little retraining ;).-Tom
The key to a great marriage is communication ..laughter and sharing in individual interests or hobbies together so time is spent together...best wishes for your new baby ...
Thank you so much. You're right, communication is key... I slowly get a little better every year.
Well done. Great video. Your wife is a super engineer.
She's a natural at it for sure!
Lucky man. I tried this with my wife and she lasted 5 minutes. 4 of the 5 minutes was her asking “Are we done now?” Haha. Great video!
She's a blessing for sure! She's very supportive of my hobby, but running trains is a fairly rare occurrence for her.
Great Ops session! enjoyed watching.....
Congratulations on you family, wish my wife would run trains with me...like your layout, very nicely done. Glad I found your videos.
Sharp looking layout. Keep up the excellent work.
This was cool. Well done
Really enjoyed this! Great example of a lot of moves on a shelf layout. Couple suggestions for extra realism - program the headlights to be non-directional. And add some momentum and deceleration to the decoders.
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll have to try that. I think there's already some momentum in the decoders but I need to play with it some more.
Cast to TV. So cool!
Overall beautiful layout!! The static grass, the "minimal" profile, the green BN hopper also looks very nice! By minimal I mean how realistically done everything is compared to other layouts with too much silly stuff going on all over the place. I really like it!
Thank you, that's very much the minimalist look I'm going for.
Nice, didnt know you had a UA-cam, but I haven't seen you post on SSR in a while.
Such a cool little layout. Love it!
Thank you. Its been a fun project.
Good job guys. Keep it going with the soon to be little master engineer in total control of the day to day
All healthy, happy , and blessed!
Thanks so much Ben!
One of the best. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for watching
Very cool
Thanks!
That's awesome! That's nice to see you and your wife operating a train session together. I hope to get my layout built up someday and do the same with my wife. At this point all I have is some rolling stock and a bunch of locomotives.
Nice video and great job of switching cars. Your wife did an excellent job of handling the throttle. Thank you! Mike
Thank you. She's a natural at it.
Great size layout! Looks great 🤘
Thanks so much. I'm a fan of your work as well.
I worked for farmrail out of Clinton OK in 2012
That's awesome. Folks who work for Farmrail have always been super kind every time I've stopped by.
Great video, congrats from France, Paris.
Thank you from NC! I spent a couple hours in the Paris airport on a work trip last year, flying over the countryside made me determined to return one day!
Great job Alex and Wife, sweet and a baby on the way
Thanks!
Greatest video this year!!!
You're too kind!
Hello,
for me, it is a very good example,
"how the unburn are infected with the virus..."
Very nice!
All the best to the three of you
Greetings from Germany
H0 Tom
Greetings back at you from North Carolina
Very nice job 👍
Thanks!
My Wife let’s me work her layout. Run it Clean it . She Has an Ho layout now she needs Tracks for her N Scale she is Using Bachmann for that she wanted to go Kato But couldn’t find Any Around. Now she’s got better luck Getting Bachmann.
Nice to see your wife taking an interest it this hobby and you must be a railroad man to know all the procedures which is great
That's high praise indeed. I'm not a railroader, but I've been blessed with lots of railroader friends who have taught me a great deal.
nice country shelf layout, sound's like you work on a railroad or you just know the switching procedure. running trains is always fun, enjoyed it 👍 congrats on the new baby to come
I've spent a little too much time trackside with my scanner. Haha! I'm starting to pick up the lingo. And thank you very much, we can't wait to meet the little lady.
If you think about it she gets to... choooses to... be involved in the operations. so your new one should be next. 👍
Hopefully the little one grows up to love trains like her dad. haha.
@@alexbogaski 👍👍
Great layout and your wife seems great! I'd need to model some sidebooms and other derailment cleanup equipment if my wife was running a train. She would say the same thing. Good luck my friend!
Haha!
Great video! Having common interests will strengthen your relationship. As far as the ends of your track go, I use a clear pushpin to stop my cars from diving off the layout, does the job until I make proper bump stops and it's unobtrusive.
That's a great idea, I'll need to try that
Your wife has a pretty light touch on the throttle, nice work and a even seen some smiling too, maybe get her a locomotive for christmas and see how that goes over, lol.
We'll stick with the jewelry for Christmas, but you're right, she's a natural! haha.
I tried with my wife ,,, I model the PENNSY :::: her favorite locomotive is a key imports 0-6-0 b6 steam switcher , with a Tsunami 2 decoder and sound installed ....
She calls it hers .
""""" ITS CUTE """" she says
So I handed her my DCC controller and said
"" here you go ,,, take her for a spin :::: her response
""" OH ,, I DON'T THINK SO """
""" NO WAY ,,,,, NO HOW """
And was up stairs in a flash !!!!!!
What a woman!
Fantastic Video.
I don't have a layout yet. But when I do build one I plan to model a town and Branch line as close to the prototype as possible.
I do go to ops session at the club I'm a member of and at friends layouts and try to operate my train in a somewhat prototypical manner as far as I know how. I do take a min for air test. Don't throw turnouts till the loco is close. Try and understand some rules to make it fun for me and people around working or watching me.
You hit the nail on the head
LoL... If I suggested to my wife that we run trains together on Valentine's Day, she'd punch me. :)
Haha! To be fair, we had been pretty much staying at home all week since we were expecting the baby any day, so she was a little bored and stir crazy.
Very nice video. I'm learning as much as I can by watching these. I was wondering how deep is your bench/shelf? And, what # turnouts do you use? Also, what is the minimum spacing between parallel tracks? I've read 2 inches is fine on straights, and 2.5 inches in turns. I was curious what you used. Thanks and I hope you, your lovely wife, and baby girl are healthy & happy!
Sorry for the late answer to your questions. Most of the turnouts are #5s and you're right, 2 inch spacing works just fine, but I bumped it out some on the curve. The shelf is 22 in deep. Baby girl just turned 5 months old, loves to smile and wiggle and hear me sing Randy Travis songs to her. Thanks for the kind words.
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I wanna come run on your layout sir! Super jealous. Hope all is well. Brian Falkey
You're welcome any time you're out in this neck of the woods, Brian. Hope you're well brother.
Oh man you going to tell your wife what to do I don't know about that That's dangerous.
Ha ha ha
You've done a great job of blending the track into the surrounding scenery. Very few people get this right. What brand of track is this?
Thank you. Its Micro Engineering Code 83
Nice! What sound system do you have in those locos?
They're factory installed ESU LokSound decoders.
Does the horn sound come from the control box or from the train? Thanks for sharing! Brian said your gas prices are high. Lol
Haha! The sound comes from speakers inside the trains.
When we gonna see those Katy units? 😆👍
All in good time. Haha. I would really like to build an OKT-themed layout one of these days. Maybe Chickasha, OK?
@@alexbogaski nice. We lived in Edmond back in the 70s and 80s. Dad worked for Santa Fe in okc.
What do you mean by 3-step?
"3 step protection" is the safety procedure that a crew does before a member steps between the cars (or locomotives).
THAT'S GREAT, WHERE DO YOU FIND A WOMAN THAT LIKES TRAIN ?.... DOES SHE HAVE A SISTER ?
Haha, she's not a train buff herself, but we both think its really important to support each other's hobbies and interests. She's an avid home baker, so our vacations always revolve around train watching and visiting unique bakeries and restaurants.