Just saw your video, as a UPS tractor trailer driver for 41 years, I can add a few comments. I ran trailers into the Santa Fe, UP and SP yards in LA a lot. You could actually use your whole space to model it and it still wouldnt be big enough....but that's the problem we all face in modeling, never enough room. I think it look pretty good. A couple points: your large crane, SFE calls them straddle buggies, would never lower a trailer onto a waiting truck. They would set it down and then let the truck hook, only after the buggie moves a safe distance away. You containers along side the rails would be on chassis, never just on the ground. They will store them on the ground like you have in the rear of the yard. I love how you have a lot of UPS trailers, in LA we run about 450-500 a night into the pig yards....so you should have a lot of UPS plus we use many other trailers also. All the yards I was in everything was paved, even between the rails. All in all, a very nice job.
Thank You so much for your Reply. I have always been fascinated by you UPS drivers "Especially those with the Tandem Trailer set ups". I Live in Mass and UPS runs in and out of CSX Intermodal in Worcester Mass They swarm in just before the train arrives and know exactly when the train will arrive. I'll move the Pup and Find some Chassis for the containers on the ground for sure, That's how I Learn and Yes I wish I had more room for a larger Intermodal yard for sure. Thanks Again Andy M
@@apmazurka No problem, glad to help. A UPS building is called a hub. Some are extremely large, the one in Worcester is one of them. I used to pull a WORMA (Worcester Mass.) trailer a lot, and I know we load out several a night. Keep up the good work
Like the first building & machine shop. Herpa makes a great Liebherr LRS645 container reach stacker in HO if you're still looking for container handlers.
Yes Andy .. no under the bus from this guy.. your stuff is freakin awesome.. thanks for sharing and keep up the great work.. Lance.. so glad I was on Dave’s live stream on Tues ..
Glad to find a fellow Conrail freak! I have over time accumulated 60 Conrail engines and about 400 freight cars. Now I have a 15x12 basement so I can build a modest double deck layout!!!! I am going to enjoy a SD40-2 lash up pulling a coal train!!!
Thank you so much for the kind words I grew up along the Penn central tracks when they were taken over by Conrail in 76 and it stuck in my head since. I have a pretty serious coal train running myself at the moment with Sd80 Mac's in the lead (4) and (2) mid train helpers.
Same here! I grew up on the Dow line from Avon yards in Indy to Elkhart In. It was the Big 4 line New York Central then Penn Central then Conrail in 76. It was a very busy route until Norfolk Southern took it over so now there is only two trains a day, Muncie to Indy and a return train from Indy to Muncie In.
@@scottsilvey7522 I Grew up in Worcester Mass on a Street called Oread St. It was a Dead end and at the end of the street was the OLD Boston and Albany double main Line which headed Yes you got it from Boston mass to Albany NY. I Do not remember the B+A (I'M 53) then New York central before Penn central now CSX = WOW same tracks though! Andy
Thanks Bigfella. Having fun and learning along the way. The Container crane was a kit but I bought it already assembled on Ebay years ago. I believe it is a Walthers Kit? Andy M
Just came across your video. Great work and it shows to me that a compact container yard is possible. I would like to place a container yard on my HO layout. I would love to know what your yard footprint is. Could you provide me with the overall length of the yard? Along with the width of (1) just the yard only and (2) including the industrial area on top going back to the foam backdrop. Thanks.
Hello and Thanks. The Lower yard "Area with tracks and unloader" is 72" Long to main lines and 14" wide. The Upper industrial are is 64" long to Mountain side and 11" wide. Hope this Helps. I would have loved a bigger yard but space is limited at 18' x 30'? Peace Andy m
@@apmazurka Thanks. Interestingly I was looking at a 20 x 70 space and was thinking that it was going to be too tight a fit, at least on paper. Watching actual images and video in that roughly same size footprint lets me know that it can be done.
If it was me, that whole area to the back drop would have been an intermodal yard! You could have built an elevated highway with exit and entrance ramps, up&down on either side. But that's me. The tunnel needs a height sign for stupid truck drivers. I've noticed when people are just model railroaders, they design so the railroad looks right, but when they add facilities and warehouses that require tractor/trailers, they don't design for realistic operations of tractor/trailer movements. Your intermodal facility looks good, but don't expect tractor trailers to be able to turn around after getting unloaded or loaded in such a small space. If you're going to have a secondary transportation(trucks), shouldn't that aspect of the layout also be designed correctly for truck movements, to make it your miniature world realistic? Roy H.
Roy. Thanks and your right, but I am trying to get as much in as I can on limited space. Downtown - Industry - Inter modal - Yard - Engine house - Turntable - Mountains etc. maybe i can clear the wall area off for trailer turning? Peace Andy M Sutton Mass
. Andy M I have No Idea, A 1/2 Mile? It turns around the Corner to the Left of the horizon on the video. 2 More Lifters down there. Google Worcester mass csx yard
