Beautiful and incredible amount of work ongoing. Making jigs is definitely the answer for accuracy and speed of making the tracks. That distance means some are alwsys going to need replacing.
Thanks so much! Two good videos in the works and should both be released in the next two weeks: Moving the #101 Locomotive and the last part of the 2024 Ops Meet coverage. Hope you enjoy them!
Train Mountain has to be one of the fine wonders of the whole world........... Beyond COOL to visit and ride a train or two...... THANK YOU for the Video
I remember doing this back in the late 1990's when I lived at Train Mountain while going to college. I made many switches and straight sections. I sure miss that place. How is Russ doing these days?
Wonderful video. There's someone very pleasing and appropriate to see nearly everything being done by hand. Nice to see youngsters involved too. I've subscribed.
Great stuff! Was a jig ever attempted for the securing rails to the ties? Always fascinated with the jigs made to assist manufacturing and assembly. For my scale modelling, I've made jigs to make things like 1/16 scale chain link fence and 1/16 piano hinges.
Interesting how we have different names for things over here . Cross ties we call sleepers . The metal fitting the rail rest on we call chairs . We do not use screws to hold the rails down or screw bolts . but have completely different fittings called keys, pigs tails or spring clips . But there are many different types out there being used .
This is known as "panel rail" in the RR industry. RR use sections of pre-fabricated track and stack them on flat cars to be delivered to where ever it is needed. A Burro crane will unload the panels to be placed at the designated places.
Impressive workshop. Can see that it probably needs reorganising to improve the developed production process, so materials start one side and progress to the flat car at the other side.
I would love to build my own setup here, but seeing we have termites in the area, wood ties are not the best choice. Where do you get the recycled plastic tie material from? That may be the answer for our area.
As a volunteer on a 7 1/4 inch miniature railway here in the UK it looks odd to have that density of sleepers and using them narrow side up. Obviously good reasons you do that, just wondering what they were?
Well, aluminum is cheaper and we have a bit of it to use up. But steel is preferred because it is less slippery and, when bent for a radius, retains its shape better over time.
Great video that's very informative. The music was a horrible choice and overpowered the narrator. Would be much better either without or reduced in volume by about 50%.
I'm very, very surprised the screw heads directly abutt the foot of the rail. There's a reason rail spikes have so much webbing around the head. Those fasteners will fail at much lower than expected loads when clamping asymmetrically. Plus the stress of having to rotate them to get them to that load.
You’d think so, but this has been working for decades. The only issue is, like full size railroads, the ties eventually decay and won’t hold screws/spikes. We recently had to replace our entire mainline with the plastic ties after the original wood ties became unserviceable.
Good to see child labor is still thriving. Seriously, it is great to see the shop is not full of old men. The torch is being passed.
years from now, they'll look back on this and realize how lucky they were to be doing things like this.
Great to see the young ones working here. Passing the torch
WOW, A Very Impressive Place !❤❤😊
I love the kids learning, SO much better than sitting on a couch staring at mindless TV, etc.
Keeping skills alive that is special and the multigenerational workforce.
What a great video! Very informative! I'd love to see a sequel showing how the panels are installed.
Thanks! We’ll work on that!
Beautiful and incredible amount of work ongoing. Making jigs is definitely the answer for accuracy and speed of making the tracks. That distance means some are alwsys going to need replacing.
Exactly. Volunteers do the work all year.
Absolutely love this channel. Truthfully, I've never seen anything like the layout they have. Always standing by for the next video :-)
Thanks so much! Two good videos in the works and should both be released in the next two weeks: Moving the #101 Locomotive and the last part of the 2024 Ops Meet coverage. Hope you enjoy them!
Train Mountain has to be one of the fine wonders of the whole world........... Beyond COOL to visit and ride a train or two...... THANK YOU for the Video
We think so too. Thank you!
Amazing track production workshop, vial to such a large scale railroad.
Thanks for sharing! Looks amazing.
Thanks for watching!
I'm still excited to come by train mountain this year
That router carriage is genius.
Yes , I did notice and thought it was well engineered !
That is a good insight and inspiration.
I remember doing this back in the late 1990's when I lived at Train Mountain while going to college. I made many switches and straight sections. I sure miss that place. How is Russ doing these days?
Wonderful video. There's someone very pleasing and appropriate to see nearly everything being done by hand. Nice to see youngsters involved too. I've subscribed.
Thank you very much!
Great to see all the young people helping out. Are they doing Community service?
No, they were loving it and trying to set some kind of record for production speed!
0:14 that is a very cool full-size 7 1/2 inch gauge hand car very cool wish I had one of those
I don't think you would want to go around the whole route on that unless you were training for the Olympics.
Great video, thanks.
Cool !
Great process, . . . .
Thank you!
i wasn't expecting some young adult, what a dream
They made it a challenge to see how much track they could build. Very efficient and so much energy!
Great stuff!
Was a jig ever attempted for the securing rails to the ties?
Always fascinated with the jigs made to assist manufacturing and assembly. For my scale modelling, I've made jigs to make things like 1/16 scale chain link fence and 1/16 piano hinges.
Interesting how we have different names for things over here . Cross ties we call sleepers . The metal fitting the rail rest on we call chairs . We do not use screws to hold the rails down or screw bolts . but have completely different fittings called keys, pigs tails or spring clips . But there are many different types out there being used .
This is known as "panel rail" in the RR industry. RR use sections of pre-fabricated track and stack them on flat cars to be delivered to where ever it is needed. A Burro crane will unload the panels to be placed at the designated places.
Thanks for sharing that! Very interesting!
Impressive workshop.
Can see that it probably needs reorganising to improve the developed production process,
so materials start one side and progress to the flat car at the other side.
That is Amazing, Joe Morris , Dundalk MD. AKA >Joetrak
Lots of sleepers!
First rate production of rail panels.
I would love to build my own setup here, but seeing we have termites in the area, wood ties are not the best choice. Where do you get the recycled plastic tie material from? That may be the answer for our area.
As a volunteer on a 7 1/4 inch miniature railway here in the UK it looks odd to have that density of sleepers and using them narrow side up. Obviously good reasons you do that, just wondering what they were?
Finally got you an answer. The thinking was that the tie would go deeper into the ballast and move less that way.
Where are located these track ???
Chiloquin, Oregon USA
What’s the reason for mixing steel and aluminum track? Maybe I missed that sorry.
Well, aluminum is cheaper and we have a bit of it to use up. But steel is preferred because it is less slippery and, when bent for a radius, retains its shape better over time.
@@ttm2609 Mixing the 2 tracks on the layout prevents corrosion?
No, corrosion is not really a concern. Trains don’t mind some rust on the rails.
@@ttm2609 Not on topic or relevant, but OK. I was asking about using both types of track, and I got the correct answer above from the creator.
@@sbrunner69 does it?
Do you make track for other garden railways, like yours?
No, we don’t make that gauge. For g-scale, we use stainless steel, though, which works great.
Great video that's very informative. The music was a horrible choice and overpowered the narrator. Would be much better either without or reduced in volume by about 50%.
Noted!
Che materiale sono le traverse ?😊
Recycled plastic.
Thats a smalll block chevy v-8 in the first 5 seconds of intro faded into a steam chuff is it not? Its definitely not a locomotive.
Next thing to come up with…continuous welded rail sections.
😅
I'm very, very surprised the screw heads directly abutt the foot of the rail. There's a reason rail spikes have so much webbing around the head. Those fasteners will fail at much lower than expected loads when clamping asymmetrically. Plus the stress of having to rotate them to get them to that load.
You’d think so, but this has been working for decades. The only issue is, like full size railroads, the ties eventually decay and won’t hold screws/spikes. We recently had to replace our entire mainline with the plastic ties after the original wood ties became unserviceable.
Why don't they just make the bottom of the rail wider punch holes in it for attachment .Would speed up the process greatly.
Interesting idea. But on thing we try to do is simulate the bigger railroads. They never did that.
The rails would be weaker and over time cracks would probably propagate from the holes as the track worked under load, its very much a dynamic system.
No safety footwear or gloves, can',t understand how your insurance allows such a thing. In Australia such practices are illegal.
Sorry, your video is greate but the music you use is horrible
Good thing it isn't a Music Video!😁