Wow! Excellent layout & equipment and a super story told as the railroads would have done it. Best model railroad video I've seen, Thanks for taking the time to make this video and posting for us.
Yep, the C&S rolls through little towns that have grown to become home to millions along the Colorado Front Range. Still plenty of trains, now the BNSF, between Denver and Cheyenne.
Super. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. (Think Denver & Rio Grande meets Great Western meets Colorado & Southern with a little Chicago, Burlington & Quincy thrown in.) P.S. I was around for the beet hoppers and steam locomotives. 💙 T.E.N.
Thank you! The sugar beet dumps and factories are now gone from this part of Colorado. A friend that lived here in the 1950s passed along that bit of "color commentary" while reminiscing. So I put it in.
Great video, I'm close but not light bulb over my head in the ability to read a TT. What seems rather obvious to you in the video and you cover it on the meets etc. I would like to see more on how you figure times on meets etc. I see at some points you quickly do the math on a meet with 303,29,30,304,328 but 327,23,24,32 or not covered. I know it is math etc. and it is quick short hand once you know the trick to read it real fast. If you could go over this in a step by step process and explain why and how the math works in a video it would help greatly. Once I see it done, it should add up. Thanks
Thank you. The time table reading is shown very quickly and briefly in the video to keep viewers interest. In reality, when crews receive their orders and clearance, they typically take a few minutes to check their assignment against the time table. So don't be impressed with the speed of the timetable reading in the video -- that's just Hollywood. The time table design helps with the reading. As noted in the video, scheduled trains that have to meet each other are shown in bold. So there are no "gotchas" hidden in the schedule for first, second, or third class trains. In the video, train No. 41 reaches the Prospect register at 9:24 am or later. Any superior (first or second class) train that has a time at Prospect during the 12 hours before 9:24 am -- which would be 9:24 pm to 9:24 am -- must be on the Prospect register before No. 41 can leave. To figure out which superior trains meet this criteria, I find it helpful to think of the face of a clock (analog clock for the young at heart). The trains of each class are shown sequentially from the center of the time table out, so I follow that order. For example, checking Northward Trains, No. 31 is at Prospect at 10:33 am -- not between 9:24 pm and 9:24 am, so not of concern. Likewise, neither is No. 23 at 5:33 pm. But No. 29 at 9:43 pm *is* in that interval -- just barely. BTW, I find it easiest to figure this out at the register, checking as I go. And this is not something I can do as fast as presented in the video -- as I said, it's just Hollywood. If you continue, you hopefully come up with the 5 first and second class trains listed in the video. If not, I made a mistake! I hope that helps.
And to make it easier, print out the time table from the link in the description. Print both sides on one sheet of paper, and then fold in half to make the time table the crews use in an operating session.
@@CSRYfan I do a double fold "TT"/ Job description for my layout. I just have not got to to the actual time table part. Mine is folded one more time after the 1st fold to make it into a small slim booklet. Thanks. 23 for 2023? I have mine set up that way too. Thanks for the copy it will help add tom my ETT on my layout.
I really appreciate the way you used visual effects to show which trains to check for on the timetable. I never understood this properly until seeing your explanation. Thank you!!
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it. The Utah Jct interlocking is controlled by an automated circuit. As an approaching train is detected, the circuit randomly, decides whether to clear for the train or hold it for a random period of time -- up to two minutes of real time. I plan to have a future video on Utah Jct and the Rio Grande's North Yard.
Joe, that's an original Broadway Limited Heavy Mikado. I bought and modified three as soon as they came out: Nos 805, 807, and 809. That was about 20 years ago I believe, or more. The big changes were scratchbuilding oil bunkers and adding feedwater heaters: Elesco on the 805 (not in this video), and Worthington on the other two. I believe everything else was just paint and decals for lettering. Art Mitchell had a great article in Railmodel Journal Oct and Nov 1997 issues on creating No. 807. I did not go to the length that Art did to build his beautiful and faithful rendition, but he really shows you how to do it! Look for No. 805 in a future video.
These are wonderful. You did a absolutely beautiful Job. I have wanted to do a Burlington 2-8-2. And do a Burlington 2-10-2. I have a proto 200 Colorado and Southern 2-10-2 and was gonna kitbash it and turn it into. Burlington 2-10-2. But upon further examination on the Q's 2-10-2's only a few had southern valve gear. So I am on the fence for it
