Model Railroading 101 All About Track For Beginners
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- Опубліковано 22 вер 2017
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Thing I learned when I started out was keeping the track clean that helps keep your engines wheels clean. I’ll run a box car that has an attached cleaning head on the bottom as the train runs around the track it cleans the rails work very well.
Dear TSG Media, just getting started at 57 yrs and found this very informative and well paced. Thank you for your time and expertise.
You're most welcome! Welcome aboard!
As a noob model railroader, this was immensely helpful. Just trying to sell my Father-in-law's old O-scale setup and get a N-scale setup since I no longer have a basement. Thanks!
A great review. In the future could you explain kadee couplers? There are so many types. Thanks.
This brings back a lot of memories from when I was younger. I had a decent amount of HO model trains. Some were my older brother's and I had some that were mine specifically. I never got into anything crazy and never really got something far enough to nail it down. My dad and I were going to build something on a plywood table and flex track, but we never got around to it.
$40 for plywood and you can start making some memories
These two guys work so good together. One dropping all kinds of knowledge in a professional way. And the other making jokes. Very interesting stuff guys. Thank you
That was the formula I was going for. Glad you enjoyed it! Feel free to share the link with friends if you know anyone who would enjoy it.
This video is one of the first that I watched when I got started with my N scale layout. Very nice overview.
I've been a model railroaded since the mid 1960's and have built and used most of what you discussed. I must say I wish your video was available back when I started because you presented a lot of very valuable information in a very enjoyable way that every model rail must learn, sometimes with great difficulty and expense. In the beginning I had a lot of fumbles and a lot of "re-inventing" the wheel. You smoothed the way for a lot of railroaders entering or fairly new to our hobby. Thanks. Fantastic video. Great work... both of you.
Thanks, Grant. Comments like these are nice to hear!
I love to watch model trains, thinking about turning it into a hobby. Looking all over UA-cam for information. Turned to your channel, and you were geekin it. I'm a senior (the squirrels don't run to fast anymore)& tech is moving faster than I can keep up with it. Thank you.
It's called a frog because it resemble the "frog" that is part of a horses foot, underneath.
really dig the back and forth commentary between you guys. really helps out us noobs that are not familiar with it all the lingo and makes everything a bit less monotonous.
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I’ve been a model railroad for over 10 years and I still learn something new I always get a few laughs from these videos
We appreciate the feedback, and "mission accomplished."
I've been modling for awhile, but still learned some stuff from this. Good job!
You guys rock ! Love the way you convey the info, informal and at times humorous but ALWAYS precise and detailed without being boring : this is a rare quality so kudos to y’all ! As for real - life central third- rail lines , I can think of the line 1 (aka Red Line ) of the subway in Milan, Italy. Those who went to that city and rode the underground system know what I am referring to .
The term "FROG" comes from the horse-drawn days. Lift up the foot of a horse and that triangle shaped area in the bottom of the horses hoof is called the "FROG". That's the first thing we'd clean out when trimming a horses hoof or when shoeing the horse. I hope that helps a little.
Wow, the best I have seen at teaching building a model railroad. Thanks.
Wow It's a wonderful instruction video!! Nice work. I'm from Aguascalientes, México and you remembered the former Instituto de Capacitación Ferrocarrilera from the bygone Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México where railroaders learn the ABC's of railroad. Keep doing such a great job!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!
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Great video again always happy to watch MR101 episodes
3:14 Life-Like makes/made adapters to fit Bachmann EZ track and the others, so that's a thing
THIS WAS AWESOME!!! I have really wanted to learn about tracks, and switching, and the electrical side of running the trains! This was a great video! I learned a lot!
I can see uncle Jimmy coming drunker than drunk and saying "hey that looks like a frog"
14:26
Keep the 101 series coming. Discussing wiring the different track like return loops and wyes would be helpful. Keep the good work up.
The electrical isolation is necessary if you want to divide a track into block sections for automated switching and signaling. Or at least if you want the blocks to have a clean start and stop point instead of a fuzzy zone where the same train might or might not be tripping detectors for multiple adjacent zones.
Leaned a lot ! Thanks! Take care! Peace from Welland Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
Great video tips Dan and John, I love watching these videos
You two guys are GREAT.
Nice video, concrete ties are used on express lines with seamless rails for hi speed commuter trains such as the north east corridor from New England to Metro-Washington DC. Plastic rail insulators are used on analog block systems that use multiple transformers to power a layout. Transformers are wired to power switches, switches to different sections of track with insulators to separate the sections or blocks. Hope that helps. 😀
Taller or higher rail is useful if you are running older locos or rolling stock, which often need slightly more height to prevent the wheels striking the chairs holding the rail to the sleepers. You might own older locos or rolling stock or maybe pick them up at a swopmeet, shop or private sale.
It is often possible to run at higher speeds more easily with the higher rail, (say Code 100 instead of Code 75). Higher rail can also be more 'forgiving' with axles that might have more play in them and thus it can help to prevent or reduce derailments.
Most people viewing a layout will not make the distinction between different codes of rail, unless it is rather obvious from the modelled location, (say a mainline versus a factory siding), but if you are keen to model more authentically it will make a difference for you personally.
It's the same thing, I suppose, with hand made track, where you take the time in constructing everything from the sleepers to the supporting chairs or spikes, to the rail itself. Hand made quite naturally takes more time but many modellers do gain tremendous satisfaction from this.
I suppose it's all a matter of personal preference.........but hey, that is why railway, (railroad), modelling is such a wonderful hobby.
James Hennighan
Yorkshire, England
Brilliant and entertaining intro to track! Thanks for sharing
They're called sleepers here because they come from the word sleeping - to roll over, usually with timber, like if you wanted to move something heavy you could lay logs down in a row and roll a heavy object over them using them as wheels in a sense, this is called sleeping hence railway sleepers
Excellent tutorial on track learn a lot of things I did not know
Love the question and answer format
When railroads were first starting to pop up in the US it was generally done by a small company running between 2 towns, or maybe 2 cities and the smaller towns between. When a town already had service from one railroad and another one approached them asking for access it was fairly common for the town to require that they use a different gauge from the first railroad. The town wanted the railroads to have to unload everything from one train and load it onto another for goods passing through. The idea was that it promoted growth by creating jobs and some of those goods would be more likely to end up in the local market.
This is one of the reasons why railroads developed multigauge track, it were able to transfer cars straight from one line to another and avoid that cumbersome unloading/reloading process.
Great video. I learned a lot of new things, thanks for sharing!
Not just drumming... but studly drumming!
Nice.
You got it!
20:11 i would like to add this - "with 18 individually controlled junction points which amounts to 10-15 twin guage double pole/throw tortouse switch machines, yes that is just a mess.
Loved the graffiti on the box cars!
Thank you for the information.
Great description on track! At 27:20 when you were discussing balloon tracks, another good example of that would be found at Union Pacific Colton Yard.
I mentioned West Colton toward the end of that part. :D
Great video! Thank you a lot.
First video of this channel!! I have HO scale Rail chief the only Model train set I have,and great channel! Like the Intro!
Awesome information. I learned a lot.
Really neat. Now we really have to come for a visit!
Great video, very informative. Thank you so much
"dual gauge double crossover with a slip-switch in the middle" actually building absurdly intricate things like that sounds kinda fun, in the sense of 'tiny challenges'. People build all sorts of useless things for their own amusement after all.
Appreciate the track info.
Ties are called "sleepers" in the UK because when railways were first laid, the track gangs often slept in tents which they pitched as the trackhead advanced. Because there were many men in each tent and there was not a lot of space, they slept alongside each other in the prone position. So, if you looked in a tent, the men would be laid out similar to the wooden 'sleepers' of the track.
Hmmm...I'm not sure if I buy that! LOL. That sounds like an old tale to me...but who knows! :)
@@TheStoneWhisperer maybe, its an interesting story though =D
We call them sleepers in Australia too
I thought they were called Sleepers in the US too...
Great information! Thank you.
I found your video helpful as I have been undecided. Mr. B.
A great guide to building a dual gauge double slip crossover. Thought that was funny. Great primer if starting over again. Begin from the beginning.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hello from the UK. Yes, sleepers is the correct term for what you call ties. Sometimes the joiners are called fishplates. We call your bumpers buffers and I have heard your guard rails called checkrails. Interesting video.
Insulated track joiners are used for DC layouts that loop back on each other. So a positive rail doesn’t touch a negative one.
These are awesome tutorials! Thank you.
Actually, in regards to a humorous moment in this video, real railroad track do actually use some composite or “ plastic “ parts. Non metal fish plates and insulators are used to electrically isolate sections of rail for signal control.
Super cool video, thanks for sharing
I used Kato unitrack for my n scale railroad and it made putting the track together easier. I wanted it to be realistic, though, so I ballasted it. Let me say that it is EXTREMELY difficult to not have ballast on top of the ties and it's even more so to not have it get into the switches and jamming up their insides. Still think it turned out pretty good looking though
Hi. Your intro is really great! Thanks for the videos.
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This I needed thank you for sharing
Underground railway network in the UK has two standard 4ft 8 inch with two 630volts in between power rails 315v each with power pick ups under each railway car and a drive cab at each end
Lots of info for a naves to know. Good job.
Good use for insulated joiners. I have a small layout. It has 2 loops and connected with 2 turnoffs. And the center of the layout i have a 2 track storage yard with another turnoff. I have a habbit of not returning the switch to yard back to the main track. So i have insulated joiners just past the switch to the yard so in case i forget to re-throw the yard switch my active consist will stop before it smashes into my parked rolling stock. I also use Bachmann ez-mate couplers they use an under track magnet to uncouple the cars. I have an extra flat car i use to pass the insulated joiners to hook up cars.
There's a dual gauge double cross over in alameda, ca, there's two abandoned yards, it's in the one right at the estuary not the main one, there's standard and narrow gauge there, and allot of the track is double gauge, all the Santa fe lines, and some of the southern Pacific used both from like the 20s to the 50s. If you can find old pictures of all the bay area stuff it's really amazing
That sounds cool! Do you happen to have the coordinates for that site?
@@tsgmultimedia no, but if you drive out of alameda through the tunnel, before the tunnel on thr right side of the y merge, right before that, there's a street on you're right, you'll pass over where the one main track used to be, its obvious, that tracks the main line to and through the yard, keep on that street it'll turn to the right, you'll pass over another track, that's the main line exit from the yard, the other side of the street thre track will keep going but if you go im the yard or to the edge of the road looking at the yard you can see where more tracks used to cross the street at the end of that yard other than the main track, that used to go to the secondary yard and loading yard, where they're used to be docks and everything, if you walk around there there's a really crazy amount of track, a whole lot of its dual gauge, there's so much track and switches everywhere, it's all over grown but you can walk through it you'll see really old hand switches with the tin circle plates, one side painted green thr other red, really cool, you can imagine what used to be there, the main yard is really complicated too, but not nearly as much. Like 20 years ago most of the tires were already covered in dirt and plants but you can totally see it all. I'd like to see pictures of what that place used to look like
Dual gauge tracks are very common in many places. Bangladesh uses it extensively as well as in India (Darjeeling Himalayan Railway)
good old youtube. this video just came up as new for you. lol,, looks a little bit ( not new ) nice video. nice to see all the different kinds.
I am most obliged for this - thanks gents
I use mainly code 100 in HO bacause I also run older scale locomotives (models built 70+ years ago) that sometimes have larger flanges depending on the Manfacturer
EXCELLENT VIDEO THANK YOU
You can join code 100 Atlas true track to Bachman easy track by using a length of standard track with a foam or cork road bed under it, between the two types of roadbed mounted track. Atlas makes code 100 to code 83 joiners and Walters has a code 83 to code 100 adapter track so you can mix different types of track. Very useful if you have different types of track in inventory.
Great series!!!
Thanks! We're very pleased with it so far, too, so stay tuned for more!
Lots of great knowledge here. Gotta' say I never even heard of some of this stuff!
I had no idea that you could get different "codes" of model railroad track. Surprised that people get that crazy about it, but maybe I shouldn't be. Not sure I recall the different sizes ever being on packaging, but maybe it wasn't around back then. I probably wouldn't be too concerned about "prototypical" myself and would just use what is the easiest and most universal.
Wiring looks like it could get complex after a while. Guess I was lucky that the first layout I attempted was pretty simple, so I never had any shorts, and I remember the switch track being powered by the control box thing.
Wish you had talked about the different kind of metals tracks are made of. Steel, nickel, brass, etc. From what I've noticed the steel track corrodes pretty easily and has to be cleaned more often. I had some that was sitting in a box not even being used and had to clean it before I could run any trains on it! I guess the stuff I had before was nickel, think some brass too, because I never had that problem before.
You are 100% correct about how someone should have mentioned the different metals. That is important and it is a difference between tracks that may cost significantly more or less than each other, especially in Garden Scale.
16:25 I just learned that, thanks!
2:50 I actually imagined that and instead of switching to another track it would switch to a tupid derailment lol
Very Good! Useful info.
Wow thanks for the info!
Very informative!
21:50 it looks just like some of the London Underground tracks, with the third rail in the middle.
There's lots of rocking jams on some of these model railroading videos.... this is a more hardcore hobby than I thought xD
And they get more hardcore the deeper into the series you delve!
Excellent. I was wondering what the different codes of track meant. Now I know!
It's good to know, especially if you are worried about making your layout look as prototypical as possible.
Sleepers also refer to wooden boards in concrete for something to nail a wooden floor into. Like a floor with radiant heat since you don’t want to nail into water lines, they install sleepers to nail the floor into. Not sure the origins of the term but it is commonly used in the United States in construction.
After 42 years, I still never tire of the basics! John did a great job of acting clueless, to help the lesson!! 😀😀 Dan, again great presentation. You're showing lots of things that too many noobs are often afraid to ask.
Carmine 🚂
Afraid to ask or misinformed by others who never bothered to figure out accurate info.
I'd say both.... Sadly, in my experience, the misinformed are often the hardest to retrain.
Thank you so much
Most common track code for ho scale track in prefab stuff like bachmann ez and walthers snap track is code 100. They do make joiners that have code 100 and code 83 so you can use both codes together.
Great video. I just want to say I use code 100 since I have some Fleischmann HO cars which have deeper flanges. This is great as derailments are reduced. Also Marklin stated with 3 rails then switched to 2 rail with studs replacing the middle rail.
Suggestion for a future "101" series... "Types Of Layouts". Like what is a Point to Point, or a Switching Layout, or a Main Line with Sidings, etc., etc.? You guys are doing great work!
This is a good idea. "Track configurations" is on our list of possible future programs.
Adding RR terminology to go along with it would also be very helpful. Beyond the most basic stuff.
you have toooo mush fun thank you
I'm a O gauge RR. From all the different model RR I seen the only one that uses staging yards is HO, N & Z. Same for them helix runners.
Thanks!
You're welcome!
Great video thanks
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Helpful info 👍
At Leamon Place Junction they have both concrete and wooden ties because of the Strasburg railroad
Frog, because the wheel of the trains "jump" the gap like a frog. This is how it was explained to me.
They do not jump the gap the wheel flanges actually ride on the bottom of the frog on full scale. And the term frog comes for the part of a horse's hoof it resembles.
@@matthewq4b Which in turn gained it's name from one of several origins, the two most popular being that it comes from the German "frosch", meaning the bottom of a horse's good, or more likely from a talisman worn by early horsemen, made from the y-shaped bone of a frog, which the horse's frog resembles very closely.
@@davidrahl240 Gotta be one in every crowd, and your're it.
The term frog comes from the part of a horse's hoof it resembles.
I will second that.
You said, that you never have been seen a standard and narrow gauge double crossover?
I have got a picture of an over hundred years old offering poster of the german Joseph Voegele of Mannheim, Hessia a Railway Track Construction Company who had been built such doublegauge double crossovers for their customers.
Well you disallowed me to give you a link to a picture of that over 100 years old offering poster, so I cannot share the link here. Yes, such standard and narrow gauge double crossovers had been built in the reality in the past of more than 100 years ago.
Anywhere at Berlin, Germany it are existing a double Trackline double Crossover, of which is still in use today, to allow sevrral Interurban Semi fast Metroplitan Trains to crossing over into several different diverging ways.
Another interesting RR facility is a 5 Star Reversing facility one is still existing in Cyprus and another maybe still abdobed had been in the past in the Alps in northern Italy to reverse longer steam locomotives who were too big or too long for any turntable.
Gotta love Donner Summit!!!
I had an HO scale bridge with the re railers fit N scale trains
Wooden ties or sleepers are pressure soaked in creosote or a similar preservative burning them is not recommended as they give off a poisonous smoke, originally a tarry substance was manually brushed onto each sleeper (I'm British :) ) brushes didn't last long as the 'black stuff' was near boiling when brushed onto the sleeper, the brushes lost their bristles fast and if you forgot and left a brush in the tar bucket it would by the morning cool and solidify into what could only be called a large black lollipop, some companies made you pay for the loss of brushes.............. Also the earliest sleepers were made out of stone in Liverpool at some places near where the OLD Liverpool and Manchester Railway was sited small piles of these sleepers could still be seen in the 1970's probably still can be found. It's worth noting that in cuttings were track has been pulled up (from the late 1800's to the 20's), in isolated places ,even near towns, these lonely places may have been turned into mini linear nature reserves, You can also buy Bulls-head rail (Peco sell them ) though I doubt anyone makes Bridge rail anywhere, !!
Addendum:- it took teams of 8 men in pairs to shift and place rails using a scissor like tool a short section of rail (even light rail) weighed on average an imperial ton ( 2240 lbs if memory serves...I'm 70 lol)
Hey there John and Dan! This is Nate and I would like to say that is some cool railroad tracks for beginners you have there. I have some regular ones.
Thanks for watching!
As far as "sleepers" go I always thought a "track bed " made sense because ballast is like a sheet over the ( the particular terrain ) like a sheet over a mattress, The sleeper lays over the sheet but under the rail which would be the top layer blanket or quilt if you like of the track . Google says I'm wrong 🤔but I'm not overly convinced 😆🤷♂️
A have a DC layout, I bought a few DCC switches, still worked good with what I do !
awesome video
just cut a piece each of kato and bachmann in half butt the cut ends together boom, you have two K/B adapter sections!
Frog -- looks to me a lot like the frog on the bottom of a horses's hoof! That's the v-shaped part at the back. Now, why is that part of the hoof called a frog....? I have no idea. Thanks for the video -- very informative.