Part 58 - Yardmaster and train highlights from op session #34 on the HO BN in 1973

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Do you know what yardmasters do and how they work? See yardmasters make up and break down trains (among other things!) in this video of highlights from a recent operating session on Burr Stewart's HO scale model railroad. It features switching moves in Seattle's Interbay yard along with several types of trains in action, including the "Chrome Collector" industry switch job in downtown Seattle and the "Oiler" along the coast. The main viewpoint is the Emerson St. overpass, a vantage point that resembles the same railfanning spot on the real railroad, and Burr also shows how he positioned the camera for the shot. He took this video with an AKASO action cam and an iPhoneX and edited the video footage using iMovie on a MacBook Pro.
Burr's HO/HOn3 train layout is set in the Seattle region in 1973, three years after the 1970 corporate merger that created the Burlington Northern (BN) Railroad out of the Great Northern (GN), Northern Pacific (NP), Burlington Route (CB&Q) and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle (SP&S) railroads. Playing smaller roles on the layout are the three-foot narrow gage (HOn3) D&RGW "west coast extension", the Milwaukee Road (MILW)'s western extension and the Union Pacific (UP).
Watch more videos about Burr's HO model train layout on this channel @muchfunwithtrains , which includes both model and prototype footage of trains in the Seattle region. More information about the real Burlington Northern Railroad (and the subsequent BNSF and Montana Rail Link (MRL)) can be obtained by joining the Friends of the Burlington Northern Railroad at FOBNR.org .
For a complete tour of this HO scale model railroad layout, see a "cab view" video at • Part 40 - Burr's compl...
A more comprehensive orientation to the layout is also shown in "Part 38" of this model railroad operations series here: • Part 38 - BN trains an...
For a different take on the "Chrome collector" switch job colliding with parked cars, see • "Chrome Collector" swi...
0:00 Introduction
1:08 Interbay yard switching
6:01 Thru freight departs north
7:30 Narrow gauge steam loco
8:20 The "Oiler" departs north
10:23 Ballard Local departs north
12:22 Hostler action in engine terminal
17:41 Southbound thru train arrives
18:44 More hostler action
21:25 AKASO cam setup
21:53 Jordan Spreader
22:04 Thru freight departs south
25:09 Concrete Local
25:46 Everett's Bayside Yard
26:42 The "Oiler" returning
26:57 Ballard Local (part 2)
27:46 Light engine move
29:55 "Chrome Collector" switching
33:24 Snohomish River bridge
33:34 Thru freight south

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@dscglfer40 Жыл бұрын

Excellentl layout, camera angles, and commentary. I love BN, Great Northern , SOO which I grew up on in Minnesota. I'm starting a small N scale yard layout after a 45 year hiatus from HO scale. Your layout provides a plethora of ideas to simulate. Thanks for sharing your awesome empire.

@muchfunwithtrains Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it. I love the SOO also, but I can't figure out how to justify modeling it out here in Seattle. Stay tuned for more videos of my N scale layout, also...

@oznobdr 7 ай бұрын

Beautiful! You guys rock the yard……

@muchfunwithtrains 7 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. It's a fun yard to work, for sure.

@Tom-xe9iq Жыл бұрын

Cheers from lovely Belton MO. Regards from ex-Seattle WA, Franklin HS grad! Love your ops sessions!

@muchfunwithtrains Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them! Cheers!

@Penn-ReadingIndustrialDivision Жыл бұрын

Being a railroader, your operations are very prototypical. Great presentation on New Tracks Modeling! I had to sub. Can't wait for more!

@muchfunwithtrains Жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard! Feel free to comment on anything you notice in any of my previous and future videos - I'm always looking for more information on how to make the whole thing more realistic.

@discgolfillustrated2640 6 ай бұрын

Excellent video, ty… I subscribed and will watch more 👍

@muchfunwithtrains 6 ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad you found us.

@elleryparsons2433 Жыл бұрын

Love Watching These kind of Videos.

@muchfunwithtrains Жыл бұрын

Can you say more about what you like the best about this type of video? I'm interested...

@simonetaormina7080 Жыл бұрын

Hi just started watching, I’m an N scaler and there is nothing like running prototypical railroading, switching cars using car cards has made operations so much more fun. One big loop with passing sidings and two way traffic with yard ops and local drop offs so much better than multiple loops and lots of trains going in a circle over and over. That’s also fine but that’s toy trains as opposed to actual model railroading. Beautiful layout, great job , anyone who I know with multiple loop layouts once the difference is explained and shown have actually changed there layouts to switching layouts, mainly O gauge guys. And they love it even more. And yes you can still run multiple trains especially on a layout such as yours. Like you said 11 trains but each one has its own crew as it should be. God Bless , looking forward to seeing more.

@muchfunwithtrains Жыл бұрын

You said it well. Switching cars for a purpose seems more fun, even if the whole thing is play. I have a couple of what we call "illegal cutoffs" - tracks which provide continuous loop runs if needed, but are normally used for staging short trains that also have a purpose. When people come over for an open house, we run up to four trains on four independent loops, but when people come over for an "operating session" (play date) those illegal cutoffs are not used, so the mainline is point-to-point-to-point (because there is a wye in the middle of the layout, to allow us to send trains north, south and east). Much fun! :)

@jimd.6152 Жыл бұрын

Very nice video. I love the era that you model. Great variety of loco's and color schemes. You do a great job narrating! From Decatur,IL.

@muchfunwithtrains Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! It certainly was a colorful time for railroading...

@sernajrlouis Жыл бұрын

Awesome video

@muchfunwithtrains Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@randysrockandrollrailroad8207 Жыл бұрын

Great video, enjoyed it, BANG! Got me saying it every time 😁 Thanks for sharing, 🤠

@muchfunwithtrains Жыл бұрын

LOL. Happy bangs to you! :)

@socalscalemodels Жыл бұрын

Great stuff, that was fun to watch as always.

@muchfunwithtrains Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks!

@randydobson1863 Жыл бұрын

hello burr it's is randy and i like yours video is cool thanks friends randy

@muchfunwithtrains Жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@jasonkebic741 Жыл бұрын

only found your channel the other day and I am enjoying it. Like other I enjoy the narrating but also like when you periodically can here the yard operators talking through things here and there. I would suggest that when you fast play, maybe mute the background noise, the super fast talking was distracting I found for me anyway

@muchfunwithtrains Жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard, and thanks for your excellent suggestion. I easily could have lowered that background noise during the fast sections, and will do so next time. :)

@railroad1970 Жыл бұрын

Good thing you didn’t record me at Stacy… I don’t think it’s possible to speed that video up enough 😅

@muchfunwithtrains Жыл бұрын

Whew! :)

@IMRROcom Жыл бұрын

I would like to hear what the crews are talking about and how they will solve their problems etc.

@muchfunwithtrains Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment. I would like to do that sometime, but there are several challenges with it - one is that the video becomes a lot longer, and the other is that there are multiple problem-solving conversations going on at the same time. I will keep recording these sessions and try to include interesting back-and-forth dialog when I find it.

@conrail666 Жыл бұрын

If I'm in the yard and I'm busy. Whatever caboose is closet goes. The railfans will enjoy it. It'll come back sooner or later 😂😂😂😂😂

@muchfunwithtrains Жыл бұрын

The railfans might love it, but the stickler in me is saying that they have to service the cabooses for at least a few minutes before sending them out again...

@neilschwerdt3493 6 ай бұрын

Hi this is Neil schwerdt in west valley city Utah, I have a question to ask you? Where did you get the little blue LED light,s man ? Again from Neil schwerdt 😊

@muchfunwithtrains 6 ай бұрын

Seth Neumann in the Bay Area sells them on his website: modelrailroadcontrolsystems.com . Search for "DCC flag man track power tester". He has several kits available, but you do have to assemble them yourself with a soldering iron. No big deal, though - nothing complicated. If you want blue LED's instead of red, put a comment in your order and he will provide them. I have several of each color, and use the blue ones for blue flags and the red ones for regular flagmen when trains are on the road and have to stop for any reason.

@BPSDMRR Жыл бұрын

Great Video, can i ask what camera do you use and what height off the baseboard do you have it set?

@BPSDMRR Жыл бұрын

I asked the questions to soon, as i watched it in two parts :-)

@muchfunwithtrains Жыл бұрын

Just to be clear, it is an AKASO action cam (in the style of a GoPro) and it was sitting 4" above the track in Interbay yard.

@kenmartin9227 Жыл бұрын

Burr...you always bring it home. Question...are all the switches thrown by hand? Or do you have some with switch motors?

@muchfunwithtrains Жыл бұрын

There are about fifteen Switchmasters and about 10 Tortoises, mainly on mainlines or staging yards. During Covid we did some remote dispatching using JMRI, but lately we're back to using the fascia-mounted toggle switches or rotary switches with diode matrices. I bought a few servos but haven't tried them yet. The rest of the 200 switches are thrown by Caboose Industries ground throws.

@ronaldrondeau7870 Жыл бұрын

Great again Burr always your OPS I will watch thoses for hours. One question why on your switch theres yellow pins

@muchfunwithtrains Жыл бұрын

The yellow pins designate that the switch is not on a "main track". Green pins are only used on main track switches, to make it easier for operators to quickly see if they have cleared the main track or not.

@25mfd Жыл бұрын

@ 12:04... in real life, SOME local collective bargaining agreements allow for a wayfreight that departs their yard more than once, to get another days pay on that second departure out of the yard... now if that job were a roadswitcher, it could depart the yard multiple times and not receive any additional compensation... just a little backstory on how the railroad works

@muchfunwithtrains Жыл бұрын

Interesting, and thanks. We will probably continue having him take two trips in a row to cut down on the size of the cut. Are you saying that we should use a road switcher for that job, rather than a switch engine? We could do that!

@25mfd Жыл бұрын

@@muchfunwithtrains when i say road switcher, i mean that specific class of road service and not the type of locomotive... that can get a little confusing... so road switcher as a "class of road service", is a combination of a road job AND a yard job... a road switcher is paid at the 5 day yard rate (which is nice because way freight rate is fairly low)... also, road switchers can perform yard switching at their home/away terminals without any additional compensation... compare to a way freight, if a way freight were to perform switching at their home/away terminals, they would be entitled to additional pay for doing so... but they would have to wait to receive that extra pay... that additional pay can be scrutinized by the trainmaster, so he can pay it or not pay it... (and usually, no surprise, he doesn't pay it)

@kenmartin9227 Жыл бұрын

Btw...what is your Favorite railroad? Is it the Burlington Northern? Or one of the merger railroads?

@muchfunwithtrains Жыл бұрын

I don't know. I model the BN in mostly GN territory, so I like them both, but the NP and MILW are also favorites. Maybe the true answer is "whatever railroad I saw last." A few years ago I rode on the White Pass & Yukon and for a while that was my favorite. Years before that I was at the B&O museum in Baltimore and the CNJ boxcab was my favorite. I grew up in Providence during the PC era so I'm fond of that as well. That's why we run the "Plutonium Train" sometimes, using PC engines and caboose, just for fun.

@Gilstrains 11 ай бұрын

👍🚂🚞🚞🚞

@richardhendrickson Жыл бұрын

Any time you speed trains up its like you really aren't really ain't having any fun...So take your time and enjoy what your doing,or don't do it...

@richardhendrickson Жыл бұрын

Run the trains in normal speed ,please?????????

@muchfunwithtrains Жыл бұрын

It's kind of hard to decide. If I hadn't sped up that center section, the video would have been over an hour long, but at the same time I wanted people to be able to see the basics of what the engines were doing. Maybe another time I'll just let it go at regular speed and not worry about people getting bored. Sorry if you found it annoying.

@skywatcherca Жыл бұрын

Mr. Stewart, I like your layout as it has TRACK - what you say? I see so many of these wonderful layouts and there is 90% scenery and 10% track; ok I get it, but from my perspective, a model RR is about track. Sure, some scenery is fine, but I want track for movements and such. Thank you for this video.

@muchfunwithtrains Жыл бұрын

I'm in the same camp for sure. But I respect the artists who create wonderful scenery. I just don't have room for it because, as you say, I keep coming up with more ideas for operations that lead to using up all the space available for track! I'm about to publish a video about one of my friends' layout where he told me that he first imagines the scene he wants to model, usually from a photograph, and almost as an after thought decides where to put a track through the scene. It's totally the opposite approach that I take of starting with a prototype track diagram and figuring out how to cram the track into my available scene. Then as an afterthought trying to figure out what buildings or scenery do I have room left for, if any. It's all fun, though. Thanks for your comment and glad you enjoy seeing all the TRACK! :)