A true operations session on a model Railroad that runs just like a real one. May 2017 on the BNSF Fall River Division of John Parkers Railroad. This is one of the top 10 model railroad on this planet.
My gosh the scenery on this layout is gorgeous. Great video Arthur - keep them coming! I could listen to you talk model railroading and operations for hours.
Arthur, this is truly one of the great layouts in the land. Thank you for sharing. Your HD camera does a super job. Again I've added this one as the last and probably the next segment to my favorites. Looking forward to segment III. Tom
Such a beautiful layout! Love how your team runs it like a real railroad. You should put a track maintenance crew/tie gang on one of the main lines. Thatd be even more realistic!
Amazingly versatile railroad with lots of scenic detail. It has it all; local freight switching, long-distance coal and grain trains, passenger service. That Fall Rivers Amtrak terminal is incredible and passenger operations can be involved and interesting, in their own right. Good narration - nice and clear (have an acute hearing problem), great camera work. Neat little things, like the chain link fences, snow sheds and forested area where the coal train wends it's way to Fall Rivers...the elevated trackage, with high, brick walls, in urban areas... Some of the mainline ties resemble the modern concrete ties used nowadays. How'd you do that? Painted them white? Can you buy track with white ties? I don't think I've ever seen that on a model railroad before.
In most cases including this one and my own 95% are powered. I have some A B A F units were I put sound in the B Dummy unit. Done long time ago. Just does not same any thing to buy full powered units vs dummy units. In the last 10 years not seen dummy's offered.
@@arthurhouston3 I have a 12 x 24 shop that is being wired up for electrical at the moment. I have purchased an additional 6 engines for my 2 NCE Power Cabs, an getting the smart booster 5 amp. How many engines can I run an program on one can unit?
@@christophergalvan8 you said you were getting SB 5 . It becomes the command station. Power cab becomes a controller. Get instructions for the SB 5. It has a chip in it. You will have two controller and SB5
Would of loved to see the process of loading the coal. BTW, this layout and the operations is awesome! It's like a real life railroad. So is the Amtrak train supposed to be the Empire Builder?
The helper unit engines are consisted together and have there own operator controlling there speed. Need to keep a push on back of train. Not a prototypical operation like on real railroad. They would MU the engines. Computer would control them.
First three and last helpers are there own consist. You could tie them all together but most times they would not speed match. Then you would have big problems and it creates another job on the railroad. Every decoder and every model engine runs at a different speed to its base settings. You have to get the locos in a consist all running very close to same speed otherwise it will destroy the gears.
On the BNSF Fall River Division, any coal train 18+ cars going up-grade from Kimber to Winston has to have helpers. It is just an added part of operations, most of the staged coal trains have DPU's on the train already. This PSC coal train is an exception that requires the helpers.
Charlie Rumsfeld as it is a model railroad, you won’t have the 100+ long, thousands of tons coal trains. To add a realistic operational perspective to the layout, pretend 18+ cars is a long train. In real life maybe 80 or so
