Same Do more Please!!!!!!

Thanks Tom, one of my regulars mentioned this would make a pretty decent switching layout on its' own. Believe he's right!

The idea is that they're at the end of a long branchline, far from any other UP operations. So they're largely forgotten by their own company and have to fend for themselves.

thanks Joey! The idea is that this particular UP crew is at an extremely remote corner of the system. So the closest trainmaster in Nampa, ID largely ignores them and they're forced to fend for themselves when it comes to dealing with the NP and the A&M.

@@oregonjointlinemodelrailro4125 Gotcha. Well, it definitely adds some comedic relief!

thanks for the comment - the engine sounds on this video are actual engine sounds pasted in rather than the sounds from the N scale decoder.

That's right - since the entire scene was added well after the layout was built the staging track is squeezed into the benchwork and is a major pain to access, especially if there's a derailment. I've been getting rid of all those ultralight derailment-prone Micro-Trains cars and replacing them with the heavier Walthers (now Atlas) cars and this area has become a lot more fun to operate.

thanks! It covers a space of roughly 4' x 6'. The siding is the longest track holding 10 cars, the wye legs are 5 and 6 cars.

thanks Jeremiah - printed by Clever Creek Miniatures. He has lots of other logging equipment too.

the log trucks are from Trainworx - it was a one time release. By chance the log truck they released matched a prototype that was used in Eastern Oregon in the late 60's!

The switching is a little tricky here, but you're mostly off in the corner by yourself and it's a more relaxed pace than most jobs

thanks for your question - at some point I'll put together a video on the Burns Local - it really does take most of a session to run (another 12 hour day on the UP). It comes out of staging at Emigrant (a single track) and passes industries they serve on UP track until junctioning with the NP towards the south end of Emigrant siding. Then they run over the NP via trackage rights to Silvies and Westpine to interchange with the NP and A&M. On the return trip they finish up any remaining work at industries on UP track at Emigrant. But they're usually too long to clear the NP main to perform that work so the dispatcher may have them get into the clear on the UP main to let traffic by and then they need to shove back out on the NP main later after traffic clears to finish their industry work. The NP Emigrant Turn switches the Emigrant mill towards the north end of Emigrant siding and then shoves up the hill to spot and pull the ballast pit at Basalt.

@@oregonjointlinemodelrailro4125 Would love to see the video on that!

No GP18's in the video - I got rid of the only one's I had several years ago (because they weren't easy to DCC - at least for me...).

Thanks Wil, yes it's a Madill 900 Yarder printed by Clever Creek Miniatures.

thanks for your feedback - I actually wrote the music (it's more background beats than music).

thanks - it's actually Emigrant rather than Immigrant. The term Emigrant was frequently used for people crossing the country in covered wagons and such - so you often see the name associated with the great westward movements such as the Oregon Trail or the California Gold Rush.

thanks for your feedback - obviously we don't switch that fast at a real session. We're keep things moving in the videos to keep you from becoming bored to tears. Two hours of action gets condensed into 15 minutes of info-packed video!

It wasn't uncommon in the late 60's for railroads to still be using 40' boxcars for grain. And I had a huge amount of 40' boxcars waiting to be employed on the layout.

Ok thank you

What state is the layout in?

@@bnsffan6584 near Fort Worth, Texas

Wow it's been a year I meant to respond a little sooner but yeah fort worth is pretty far from me I live in Sultan WA and I do get over to Aberdeen and some other spots and I love looking at the lumber mills and some of the tracks and operations and going over near Oregon and all of it's lumber stuff and seeing the up in Oregon is weird to me because I'm used to seeing only BNSF and other lower class railroads.

It's N. If it was HO you'd have a heckuva time trying to reach the backside of the wye.

@@oregonjointlinemodelrailro4125 Oh ok thats what i thought just never seen log trucks that detailed in n scale.

@@oregonjointlinemodelrailro4125 It's amazingly good to operate though, really inspires me to think of N when one day I'm getting my US layout built.