This will be a 3 part video in HD of one of the great model railroad in the US. The owner has been working on this layout for number of years with some very good help. This model railroad runs as close to the real thing as you can get.
Truly the pinnacle of modern model railroad operations. This layout is indeed up there with Vic Smiths' City Edge layout, the La Mesa model railroad club, and Pelle Soeborg's Danville layout. Great job commentating Mr. Houston. Looking forward to more videos. You've earned my sub.
Art, great job on the video! The layout is in Colorado, North of the Denver area. The layout stays clean because of a sealed floor and ceiling in the room. However, cleaning is still required!
Excellant video & what an impressive layout. The detail & execution looked perfect. Some very skilled modelers/artists, really love how well the scenes carry into the backdrop. Thx for sharing
If you watch all three parts and go to his web site bnsf fall river division, you would see the basement exposed all 3000 ft which the rr takes up 2700.
1:20 you start talking about the flashing Yellow and called it wrong. It's called a "Approach Limited". Proceed, Speed passing next signal must not exceed 40 mph unless it can be plainly seen that indication of the next signal displays a clear, advance approach or approach limited. It will not and should not show a red signal at the next. If it does. The signals are not setup correctly or there is a malfunction.
Actually on the BNsf it's "Approach Medium". Proceed, prepared to pass next signal not exceeding 40 MPH, and prepared to enter diverging route at prescribed speed through turnout.
Dear Arthur, I saw a lot of your vids and I want to thank you very much for your time, dedication and effort in such a splendid work you make visiting those great layouts. We -modelers from other countries- do really appreciate it !. If is possible, I'd like to ask you some N scale layout from time to time and if some day you have the chance it would be very nice to watch the Reid's bros. Cumberland Valley System. Thank you again, and greetings from Chile (South America). Cheers, John.
Art: Do you know what the owner used for the layout's roadbed? I don't think I've ever seen it used before. I noticed some cork; but the other roadbed... I'm still unsure. Is it homasote?
THANKS, FOR GREAT VIDEO, WAS LITTLE NOT OPERATION TRAIN ON RUN WHEN CROSS THE ROADCROSS AT TIME AS GOOD WATCH SEE DETAIL OF LAYOUT AS LIKE HOW to TAKE TO RUN TRAIN OVER THE LAYOUT FROM POINT TO POINT IN OPERATION RUN .
this has to be one of the best layouts i have ever seen, can you tell me what kind of signals they used and what were they using for a road bed?, hoping to see an other layout update from this layout? does he have his own you tube page? thanks lot for your help,,,Gary
gary wise John has a web site. search BNSF FALL River in search box. NJ int Signals. They are run by JMRI Panel Pro. But he uses a overlay program that was written for JMRI by one of his fellow modelers. But the system for signals is Free, JMRI.com Warning if you are not into this it is not easy to make it all work. Takes a lot of electronics to make this happen.
In most cases in all the model RRs I have ever operated on 2 engines will pull everything. But this is an attempt at pro type operations and in the real world there would be massive motive power. mid train and end helpers not un common. on 100 car coal trains.
@@arthurhouston3 Yeah, I do know when I was in Queen Creek, AZ, a track ran right past Canyon State Academy, and I always wondered how heavy coal must be when a coal train with like 30 cars had 5 engines on the head end.... Meanwhile the autorack trains that rolled through there were way longer but usually only had 2 engines.
I am willing to bet they are intermountain. engines. But that paint scheme has not been done in long time. Many of the people who work at Intermountain run on John's Layout.
Tim in the hobby it is not political so I make no comments on that subject. Only say that type of sign would be part of the landscape. The railroad is not mine. I own the Grande Pacific. I am a guest at this layout.
Tim Belcher And some of us DO like the sign. And if YOU want to put a "Bush" sign on your layout you go right ahead and I promise not to complain about it.
