The Mill Brook Railroad is a 7-1/4" gauge freight hauler in Vermont. Follow along with the ups and downs of this cold climate minimal gauge railroad. Along the way, we'll visit other miniature railroads and do a lot of track maintenance.
Thanks for the ride. The 70 is smart, she miss the first twig but stop before second one ! Cool idea to film from the rear. Caboose roof too shot shows track irregularities, that´s when good suspension trucks absorb track variations. At coupler height speed illusion is greater. Nice shot compared to front one where the giant hides everything. That P&W a rarity in that scale world with correct AAR type B trucks from scrapped older Alco´s is correct. Altough type M that is roughly a letter H is the usual, would be cool to do. A lot of welding, but no suspension. Don´t know who made those trucks. Are they home made ? Refreshing to see such details instead of more common EMD Blomberg. I still never understand how Americans clubs can be so huge with so many infrastructures to install and maintain. Bigger membership or $$$$ annual fees ? And it´s not weather for sure. Adirondack is is real winter location. It´s pity what we have at Québec, Ottawa or Montréal. Except for steamers that get "real" weathering from operations, too spiffy, shiny and looking brand new, hide so much details that sometimes required extra work and or money. They should get some inspirations from smaller scale. That steamer with wood gondolas was a running well time machine. So successful marketing era of Chessie system For many years in second world war era and latter, all their yearly calendars were instant sold out bonanza with nicely done illustrations, promotting the railroad offered services, new equipment. Yep, Chessie being a female cat got kittens that playing xith an O scale trains, removed the steamer and all heavyweight passenger cars, replaced by shiny new stainless cars and locos, while Peake, the father, went to fight in the war. Chessie saying shhht ! to not awaking a sleeping soldier in its dormitory bed going to war. Hard to understand in our cold and feelingless time, that the public send cat food to the railroad, believing that real Chesie and its family really existed. Finally, railroad HQ had no choice than to adopt a real grey tabby cat from a refuge. I´m sick when i see how sooo successful Chessy strory ended up in present drab CSX ! Well.... at least, letters C and S survived that disaster.... Thanks Aaron and your new "Vice President" that we see so often. A really pleasant guy that seems to have a decent piece of land to one day have its own empire. ❤😊
Absolutely excellent. Love the model M3/5 Stuart tank going along for the ride. Gorgeous East Broad Top consol. Love the night shots, my favorite! Great video, thanks for bringing it to us!
Excellent!! That Providence and Worcester ML420R is gold! Nice model. Great set-up. Must have taken years to lay all that track, build/install the bridges, etc...
great application of “FRED” on the night run. that is a huge set up! that was a nice Chessie caboose ! that was a different styled seat right after the 70. the run by of the pennsylvania was really nice. you got some great images of the different trains. thank you for sharing your time at the live steamers!
Chickens, check! Tankcar, check! Discussions, check! Cat, check! Derailment, .... eh..... eh..... Hé, you! Come back! I can not go to sleep with out one!!!
great job cleaning up the brush. it is hard to keep up on the trimming I need to do trimming from the invasive trees and bushes. honeysuckle bushes are bad! grow very fast and spread!
Everything in life is knowing the tricks lol. For splitting wood an axe isn't the correct tool for the job. Axes are best used for cutting at 90deg to the grain. What you want is a splitter or block splitter - like an axe but the head is shaped to split wood lengthwise along the grain. Axe can be used in a pinch but when it jams, trying to extricate it stresses the handle, so your reliable axe starts to get loose. Also, sitting one round on another reduces the length of your swing therefore the the amount of power you can generate. Having it lower down on a firm surface and aiming for the half of the log round past the center (so the half furthest from the center) yields excellent results. When one gets really good one can use one's manual splitter wherever one likes and is great fun playing with where to split. The more you do it the more productive you become. You begin to be able to read where to split on difficult to split species too.
Need to build some log cars (just a basic frame) that you can cut the wood on the cars then move the cars to where your stacking it..... just a thought for the future...... Good video.....
good ole #70 getting a workout. curious as to why you don't have a Gondola out to carry the smaller sticks/kindling that are still worth keeping for firewood. I can see a use for the Tank Car as a sprayer for weed control. fill it with a farm safe weed control, pump it up and sit on a Flatcar with the nozzle to spray the right of way. nothing gunks good trackwork like Weeds!
What about mounting a garden size wood chopper on a car blowing the chips into a collecting hopper car? Joking but only a bit. Lots of diesel around today. It was flowing in one car but not in the other....
I was worried about making a 7.5" gauge for my property because of how much wood it might be able to haul Vs 15/16 inch gauge. But I think 7.5 will be just fine and I can save some money on track building costs
Have you guys thought about using a wood chip stove/boiler? Because you're then able to turn all the wood into chips and carry it all in essentially hopper cars and augers
@idemanddonuts We burn wood pellets at the moment. I thought about stacking this wood up and seasoning it to fuel an evaporator that I plan to either build or buy so I can start making maple syrup again. My other thought is seasoning it and selling it by the bundle.
well........thats much better than most people think.........at least its not cleaning up after a nasty derailment. everybody has to create a good laugh now & then.
at the end was that a you de-railing? what a haul of wood will you use it as a part of your heating regiment just in a fire pit. it is crazy with the ants ! nice video, thanks for sharing.
Did you set up your loco to run on 7.5-inch guage, or is Eagle Point 7.25? I have had mu volume very low, so I probably missed it if you mentioned it in the video.
@Jjonathanhart Indeed, they have. The railroad is 25 years old this year. That's normally how long these railways last. This one, however, is turning into a club.
Mill Creek Central is in Ohio. This video was filmed on Mill Brook Railroad in Vermont. The black and blue engine is here for repair. I have never seen one like it for sale, so I can only guess they'd be around $5000.
@MillBrookRailroad Heh, I bet the power of the internet could help with ideas to make it run right! Even it it's as simple as having the 3rd truck be powered by its own motor. Basically, it's own little loco.
