Beautiful layout, very cool how you did the street view beyond the tracks and railroad crossing. Awesome depth illusion. Love the car float ops. Really adds a whole different chapter to a layout!!
There is so much right about this railroad! Yellow stop signs. Stone pavers. Board fence, period autos. Geep 7, no dynamics, speed recorder, cab signals, moderately weathered, great sound. Empty company gons as reach cars. Appropriate mix of owner railroads for the location. Buildings that look like they belong, detailed and dingy. Is the tug a bash or scratch? Lower house reminds me of a plastic kit I had from to 60's, Despatch No 9. Subscribed.
I was very actively railfanning in your RR era, late 50s, early 60s. Back when you could go on the property and ride engines. "Just be careful". Never went to NYC, but had some time on Delaware Ave. in Philly when it was still active. It all just looks right.
Beautiful railroad! Love these operational videos, please keep them coming when you can. I know they're time consuming to produce but you'll always have at least one person watching them!
I ;live in NYC, and am familiar with many of the areas depicted. This is lovely work. I do have one criticism, however. Pllease leave the descriptive type overly on screen a bit longer. You are wiping it to fast to provide a proper opportunity to read it..
Thanks for the kind words. I had a hand-drawn track plan ten years ago, but it’s long gone and I’ve made multiple changes, with another on the way. But, essentially, there is a car float and a yard on one end, a single-track main that runs the length of the layout, with two passing sidings and customer sidings, both facing point and trailing point, along the way.
@@manhattanterminalrailroadh9776 Or how about a "birds eye" video tour of the layout panning from one end to the other. I saw your first video of the layout tour, but it has lots of cuts and edits and it is hard to figure out which section is where in relation to others. I really love your modeling and videos and from the other comments, it is clear that lots of others do too! Keep them coming when you have time to!
@@DanielCoady thanks for the idea. And just so you know, the layout tour video, even with the edits, goes sequentially from one end of the layout to the other.
@@manhattanterminalrailroadh9776 Oh wow, thank you for that information. I will definitely go back and view the layout tour video again with that in mind. So is the layout roughly "U" shaped?
@@DanielCoady yes, roughly a U shape, though I think of it as a squared-off C shape. Using the layout tour video as a reference, the opening scene on the waterfront is on the top right edge of the C. Water Street, John T. Stanley, the freight house,Coca Cola, and Macy’s are all on the top edge of the C and that section is 22 feet long by 2 feet deep. Midtown is in the first of two corners. Then the layout turns south and runs along the second wall or the spine of the C. This section includes the team track, Mobil dealer, 28th Street, the single track stretch along the river front, and the Chelsea switching district. The section along this wall runs 34 feet long and 18 inches deep. The abandoned track at St. John’s Park is in the second corner and the bottom section of the C includes American Hardware, Union Freight, Washington Market, Atlantic Seafood, Pier 17, and ends at the abandoned float bridge. This section is 10 feet long by 18 inches deep. Hope this helps!
Thanks for the kind feedback. I don’t have a track plan, but I am actually in process of hand drawing a schematic. If you’d like a copy when I am done, please email me at manhattanterminal@gmail.com
