USA Trains

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2 жыл бұрын

Well, IT SNOWED! Last week we were reviewing the USA Trains Rotary in 1:22.5 (G) scale. And we said if it snowed we would test in with real Utah snow.
We are adding several modifications to the USA Snow Plow. First, we. are converting it to a rechargeable battery. Better torque and performance, We are also adding a Delton tender rebuilt into a freelance D and RGW rotary tender. Changing couplers and a few other small details.
Anyway, one week ago it laid down our first snowstorm. A wet sloppy mush of slush. It was about 38 degrees and snowing... Anyway, the plow could not bush through that slop. BUT we did get some great photos of operations in the snow on our garden railroad. Including night photos.
By the next morning the new snow was cold and powdery. AND the battery was installed and this time, some success!
Much more to do so we will be adding a third part to the review of the USA Trains Rotary Snowplow!

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@kenshores9900 2 жыл бұрын

Stinkin cute! Way to neat. Great seeing it.

@jimkammerer8028 2 жыл бұрын

HAVE FUN IS THE BEST HOBBY IN THE WORLD 😇👍👌🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@gunny8978 2 жыл бұрын

Thats just awesome I was a blast just w ,watching 😆 besafe

@cadenchristiansen3553 2 жыл бұрын

You guys should do an open house that is something i would love to attend also your videos every Sunday and Tuesday get me out of bed!

@robertrivera9162 2 жыл бұрын

Most definitely makes great photos for Christmas cards

@stevemellin5806 2 жыл бұрын

Great picture . Lots of fun have a great week

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@tomas5376 2 жыл бұрын

We used to have up to 10 feet of snow on the WP.. It was always amazing to see them trying to remove snow. We used to build tunnels in order to get to school? Wonderful memories 🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

I lived at Tahoe for two years. Four feet was a normal storm. Record accumulation is 22 feet. Three years ago they almost matched that. A friend sent a photo of his street. The banks on the sides were 30 feet tall! The lane in the center was about 12 feet.

@danbelzile4203 2 жыл бұрын

You guys did a good job on the railroad , verywell done.☕🍩

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Hi! Thanks again for watching. Soon have this guy finished.

@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951 2 жыл бұрын

Great little Christmas card scene.

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed!

@timothyboles6457 2 жыл бұрын

I know of someone who has taken and made a metal blade assembly and used a starter motor from a small motorcycle! It worked great! Especially when he was testing it on the kitchen table and it fell over a dug a hole in the oak dining table!

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve read of people putting powerful motors in these. But I’m happy as is.

@ronalddwyer6592 2 жыл бұрын

It's great that you got the right snow to run you snow plow. It does a fine job shooting the fine light snow out the chute. Seeing the snow flying is a awesome site to see. You got to love rotary snowplows especially when they are at work. It will make fantastic Christmas card photos for sure. Be safe and see you on Sunday.👍🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

We just got some fresh snow. Perfect powder. Except it’s about a scale 20 feet. So a bit too deep!

@valeriebassett3107 2 жыл бұрын

How sweet is that!!! Fun to watch. Can't wait to see your third show! ❤️

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Got in about 20 minutes working on it yesterday. Pre Christmas. Anyway in 20 minutes I still hot a lot done.

@t.j.carroll8512 2 жыл бұрын

All I can say is you guys are having way too much fun and its outstanding! Thanks for sharing.

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. We do get in some fun

@johnarcher8090 2 жыл бұрын

Great video!! You should add one of those large double blades in your snow removal arsenal.

@krissfemmpaws1029 2 жыл бұрын

Those are some wonderful shots of the plow. Sad you can't scale down the snow...

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman 2 жыл бұрын

Great video!

@garyacker7388 2 жыл бұрын

You folks have such a beautiful backyard. The pictures are awesome I've been looking forward to seeing your rotary. All the buildings that you guys have made I didn't think you left them out side with all of the weather changes. Congrats on all of your great work!

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yup. Weathering outside is by God. I help a bit. But cold wet and hot sun.

@charlesmcclure5994 2 жыл бұрын

Well I'll give you an eighth reference and a c for execution but yes it did look good out there on the snow have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 👍👍

@bernardc2553 2 жыл бұрын

Live the Rotory but that's V-PLOW SNOW DALE SO cool buddy!!

@FunAtDisney 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe you couldn’t plow the snow, but what a beautiful scene! And just love Model T (yes?) with the skids and trackers on it! I can just hear Fred Astaire singing while driving a similar car in the Santa Clause is Coming to Town TV classic.

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Yup those model Ts were bought by a company who added the treads and skis. Under contract to the post office for rural free delivery. I’ve seen two in collections. Found this one on eBay

@jimkammerer8028 2 жыл бұрын

GOOD MORNING HAVE A GOOD DAY STAY WARM AND SAFE NOT THE BEST SNOW ITS A BUCKING SNOW FLAVOR IT AND ENJOY YOUR DAY AND TIME THANKS FOR SHARING THIS WITH YOUR SUBSCRIBERS I APPRECIATE YOU AND THANKS AGAIN JIM KAMMERER OF PHILADELPHIA PA 👍👍👍👍👍👍

@daviddryden8088 2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure by January or February you'll get lots of nice dry powered snow to test on, but the stills look really cool. Christmas card worthy for sure.

@dkkauffmanjr 2 жыл бұрын

Honestly your right the snow blower is designed for looks not function. You'd have to change the blades. The narrow openings are pushing snow more than they are scooping the snow. Maybe 3d printing better blades could be an option. But still, it looks awesome. Thank you for a great video👍

@georgefowler4682 2 жыл бұрын

In real life, OY was coupled to two K36's or K37's ... another engine ran between the plow and the engine pulling the shoveling crews bunkhouse, dining car and a flanger. I suspect the middle engine was to help either the crew or plow. Even at that, I think around 1957 they got trapped for a week up on Cumbres Pass. My home was half a block away from the roundtable in Alamosa, it it was quite a sight watching the plow being dispatched. OM was idled in Chama because it didn't have superheaters and was very inefficient, but for some reason they had to list it as available ...

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

They also have a water car… for the plow. Not sure why. Do you know?

@patrickmcarter6244 2 жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Back at you. 2022. Hum… twenty to to. To to train? Yup. Year of the train.

@cbgadget4740 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, the second run was much better and I’m betting if that snow was closer to powder that rotary bad boy would be blowing snow away. My wife heard me rooting for the rotary and watched with me 👍😊 Thanks for sharing

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Hi again! Yup if the snow was dry power about 2” it would work great. Er.. will work grate. Er great.

@Senor0Droolcup 2 жыл бұрын

Love the Rotary snow plow! That’s awesome

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Hi. And thanks!!

@Brianrockrailfan 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks again

@Santafefrank 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Almost finished the tender last night. Ran outa paint. Dang…

@pbyfr 2 жыл бұрын

It nearly worked! I hate such heavy snow, it's such a pain.

@realtoytrains 2 жыл бұрын

Out here in south eastern New England we deal with this “slop” all the time. Makes for good snowmen ⛄️ and snowballs though! Great video thoroughly enjoyed it.

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Yup. My fav as a kid. But skiers hate it. As does my rotary plow

@benhancock1408 2 жыл бұрын

I had a few winters worth of fun, (along with some frustrating moments), removing snow with a wedge plow. Iowa winters are not well suited for outdoor railroading.

@weeniedogwrangler7096 2 жыл бұрын

Used to hate dealing with that kind of snow since it was heavy to shovel and would ice up badly if the temperature dropped. Not as bad as the even wetter variety, technically known around here as "elephant snot", but still bad enough.

@IndustrialParrot2816 2 жыл бұрын

its the kind of snow we get in Seattle cause it rarely gets below 30 and just stay at about 33 or 32 degrees all winter long so its a mix of rain and snow that is very annoying cause it bad snow

@caseyvillemodelrailroad3877 2 жыл бұрын

hi there, yep hard to get going on ice track without sand but magna traction works on steel rail sections . just have to clean/dry it up when done video lol, have fun , love the shoot...

@jimkammerer8028 2 жыл бұрын

YOU ARE VERY BLESSED AND GOOD CRAFTSMAN JUST BE POSITIVE AND PATIENT. YOU BOTH ARE AWESOME AND FUNNY VERY GOOD JOB BE SAFE AND POSITIVE. JIM KAMMERER OF PHILADELPHIA PA NORFOLK SOUTHERN RULES THE RAILS

@lamadrigueranostalgicofans4703 2 жыл бұрын

In my Childhood I wished some huge train like this for my 80s action figures like star wars and GIJOE and make more histories. These models are fantastic, like Museum quality pieces

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Build it!!!!

@davidwayneprins 2 жыл бұрын

reminds me of a video someone I knew from the local G scale club had done. Hand made wedge plow mounted on a flat car. The plow was brass so it had some weight. The bottom had part of a windshield wiper blade on it to avoid shorting out the rails and a there was hinge made from an old leather coat so the plow could move without necessarily derailing the car it was attached to. Wonder whatever happened to it as Lenny has since passed away...

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Thought about doing something like that.. built a C and S locomotive with a large plastic plow. Setting right here… and over there… and a few parts over there…. Hum… anyway rebuild and test on real snow. Now that we have the outside layout to run on!!

@scottfw7169 2 жыл бұрын

I was born in the southwest coastal desert area, raised mostly in the southeast, had a few childhood years in Rhode Island; I don't like cold, I don't like snow, yet have always thought that trains look grand in the snow and would actually like to have a house and make a garden railway where I could run trains out in the weather. But NOT in tomorrow's weather though! "... with gusts as high as 43 mph."

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Nuts weather! We had an “inland hurricane” a few months ago. 110 mph winds. Thousands of trees knocked over. Including on on the railroad….

@robertweldon7909 2 жыл бұрын

Other commenters need to remember that, first this is a MODEL, and second it is 25 year old technology. It is still an assume model and with the modifications and improvements you are making, it will be even better. Andrew Schock did have a good idea though, add a flywheel. It is too bad that the rotor is fixed, an adjustable rotor would be right up the ally of master modelers, like yourselves, a hint to a future project. ;-)

@tgmccoy1556 2 жыл бұрын

Jordan spreader time...

@TheModelingNut 2 жыл бұрын

I'm assuming you would have seen it but this reminds me of the 1950s Southen Pacific documentary "Snow on the Run". I think the term for that wet snow you have is "Rubber Snow" which even the Railroads didn't blow but plowed because it would just curl off the right of way. I found this documentary on KZfaq years ago so I would assume it's still somewhere on the tube.

@dkaustin98 2 жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas. Maybe you need the angled wedge plow to push that slush.

@bernardc2553 2 жыл бұрын

BTW it missed us but the wind lordy lordy watch out for flying debris f/my back k lot!! ☕ & Baileys for you 2 :-)

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Best part of winter. Warm fire and coffee with Baileys. And trains on the layout. Perfect

@jimkammerer8028 2 жыл бұрын

😇Zoink I APPRECIATE YOU BOTH STAY SAFE AND CAREFUL ENJOY YOUR DAY AND WARM UP LOVE THE COLLECTION YOU HAVE VERY GOOD AND INFORMATIVE AND INTERESTING 😇👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👌🙏🙏🙏👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks again!!!!!!!

@ollieahokas9179 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe you need to have those large snow plows like the RGS 02? I guess the snow plow may nned a little more weight and the rotarys blades are too scale to grab anything than powder snow? It is a neat model and it is nice to see the C19out, mine is at the customs after 4 weeks in a warehouse in Copenhagen, Denmark. I hope the import fee issues will be done soon so I get mine before Christmas. Merry Christmas and enjoy the Hollidays!

@lillywho 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe you can make custom sharp blades and put a stronger motor in there? For a custom refit, maybe using a PC case fan would yield better result because those are often very high quality if you buy them from good manufacturers.

@bigwoz78 2 жыл бұрын

Yes those shots would make outstanding Christmas cards. Question, how is the track voltage not getting shorted out by the wet snow?

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

I assume there is some current flow there. But not a lot. Anyway it works!

@iannarita9816 2 жыл бұрын

Pure water is a perfect insulator. It is the minerals suspended in the water that conduct electricity.

@pbyfr 2 жыл бұрын

Snow is mostly pure water (and even a lot more of air), and pure water don't have a good conductivity (it's salts in water that conduct). And air is very bad at conductivity. With 12 V, it would conduct at all.

@detroitredneckdetroitredne6674 2 жыл бұрын

Spectacular Scenery and Christmas cards I seem to remember years ago when battery operated drills 1st came out people who made scratch built engines used battery operated drills for their drive motors how about putting one of those battery operated drill motors into your snowplow that would give you plenty of power and you can use the battery pack from said battery operated drill Let me know if you use my idea

@drgwnut 2 жыл бұрын

Now I know why I never bought a rotary snowplow for my driveway...

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Yea, wrong tool.

@jimkammerer8028 2 жыл бұрын

HAVE A GOOD BUCKING DAY YOU BOTH HAVE A GOOD DAY STAY SAFE AND CAREFUL ENJOY THE VIDEO. AWESOME NICE LAYOUT YOU HAVE A GOOD DAY THANK GOODNESS FOR YOUR INTEREST AND YOU ARE VERY GOOD CRAFTSMAN MAKE A 7 11 SLURPY 😇👍👌🙏🙏🙏🙏👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Hi. We are back on the logging railroad! Soon back on the locomotive shops!!!! The outside layout is put away. Sort of…. Anyway this weekend planing to put the logging railroad together!!!

@iannarita9816 2 жыл бұрын

You said you dug it out. Did you dig it out of a snowbank? Dig it!

@transitrail0930 2 жыл бұрын

Great videos on snow ploughs, inspired me to get a converted railking o gauge version for my On30 layout. The problem you are having is that you don’t have scale snow. You could always rig up a mesh above the layout to filter the snow to the right size? (Before it collapses under the weight of the snow) As you can tell I know nothing about snow as coming from southern uk, a couple of millimetres of slush brings the whole country to a halt!

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Damn Physics. I wish we could scale gravity. Fluid dynamics. Momentum. As it stands at least we can scale trains! And realistically that’s good enough.

@dmarqu11 2 жыл бұрын

Can you please tell me any information you have on the snow truck seen near the end of the video. That is so cool.

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

That is a model T Ford. In the 1920s a company bought a bunch of those and added the treads and skis under contract to the US post office. These trucks were used in rural free delivery mail service. I’ve seen two in collections. Really really fun!! I understand they worked quite well. In snow… down side is they could not be used on dry roads. No way to convert them back. But in many rural areas there was no snow removal or plows then. So the roads were snow packed for months

@johnrettig1880 2 жыл бұрын

As for the icing problem you might want to get a couple of GI Joe's with Flamethroughers ..... Or ...... Use a Bottom Dump Ballist Car to lay down some Rock Salt to scale . Me ..... I vote for the GI Joe's 🧔🏼🧔👨‍🏭👨🏼‍🏭😆

@usmcsam4821 2 жыл бұрын

Instead of a snow blower a wedge snow plow should work for this type of snow.

@ChristopherBrown-mq1lg 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool👍 Is this the first or second winter for your garden railroad benchwork ? Hope it’s weatherproof! Enjoy your videos

@hamiltonsullivan6563 2 жыл бұрын

Amagine if they made an ho version!? That would be awsome toyman!

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

I’ll bet it’s been done. Out friend Ralph built a working pile driver in HO. So a rotary snowplow would be a piece of cake.

@hamiltonsullivan6563 2 жыл бұрын

@@ToyManTelevision I saw the pile driver episode!!! That thing is amazing

@robertliepe6766 2 жыл бұрын

💯👍👍👍🥳🎄😎🇺🇲

@train0996 9 ай бұрын

I have a C-19 like the one you used in the video

@ToyManTelevision 8 ай бұрын

It’s an amazing locomotive! I need to put DCC in mine and run it! Right now address zero but it scares me.

@davedocker1195 2 жыл бұрын

Iowa weather

@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if you could put a V plow on the front of the blower to push the heavy snow on the side?

@stephenrickjr.7519 2 жыл бұрын

Jordan or Russell plows might work.

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Yup. And a flanger. Only because they are cool.

@stephenrickjr.7519 2 жыл бұрын

I forgot about my snow flanger in ho. It's brass, Southern Pacific. I don't remember the manufacturer.

@DanielChannel57 2 жыл бұрын

If it's possible, I would also try replacing the plastic rotor blade with a metal one.

@jrowe9301 2 жыл бұрын

The blades don’t look like they have enough angle, neither are they sharp enough?

@seanthornton9969 2 жыл бұрын

your problem seems to be the snow it is slush not the "fluffy" type of snow you need for it to work optimally.

@benhancock1408 2 жыл бұрын

I don't think they were originally designed to actually blow snow, especially that wet stuff. I think they were just supposed to rotate and look good doing it.

@sammisworkshops3762 2 жыл бұрын

yup snow is just too wet.

@daviemaclean61 2 жыл бұрын

If it was British Rail they would just say its the "wrong kind of snow!" and lay on a replacement bus service!

@daviemaclean61 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful scene though. Model railway - full sized snow! ;-)

@pbyfr 2 жыл бұрын

SNCF in south part of France will say "snow? Never see that before".

@Andrew7923 2 жыл бұрын

If you could add a flywheel it might do even better. In real life that's an enormous metal blade spinning, as apposed to your small plastic one. The extra tourk would probably give it a more consistent throw.

@TonyLasagna 2 жыл бұрын

AWESOME video as always! Love this rotary. Will you keep this color, or paint it the maroon/red color? That dry snow is the ticket! Looks fantastic!!!! I finally procured the LGB Colorado & Southern mogul that my collection was missing. I had two WITHOUT the bear trap and big snow plow - just the cow catchers (one of them is running in a video on my horrible youtube)- one weathered, one not. Finally got lucky #7 - with the bear trap, the gold chains and piping, and the big snow plow. Built in Germany 30 years ago like the others. Can I PLEASSSEEEEEE pretty please get a Christmas card? I would also be happy to send one return.

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Hi. Oops. Too late. We don’t send them. Well digital but that all

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Stays gray. Just needs 4 decals and done. Took it out a few days ago and about 2 inches of powder and wow!!!! Blew it right away!!!!! Perfect

@finlayfraser9952 2 жыл бұрын

Dale , wouldn't a wedge plough work better at this scale??

@bob_._. 2 жыл бұрын

Now you just need some G scale sand for traction.

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Conductive sand. Need to figure that out. Can’t rust… hum…. Thinking about that. Just as a sperment. Necessity is the mother of invention. But screwing around is the dad.

@bob_._. 2 жыл бұрын

@@ToyManTelevision A quick googling didn't look promising - the only conductive thing that doesn't oxidize is graphite; not real conducive to traction. Guess that means you're gonna hafta convince Karyn those live steamers followed you home all on their own. I know that movie on the internet won't be boring.😄

@lordsjaak 2 жыл бұрын

i know there is also different version using in Canada for snowplow. :)

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

This was offered it different road names.,,

@royreynolds108 2 жыл бұрын

The biggest part of the problem of not being able to operate the snow plow is the vanes on the wheel are not open enough to catch the snow. You would have problems with fluffy snow. The vanes are too thick also. Pull up photos of the rotary at Chama and compare the wheels.

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Yup. This is totally freelance. Not even close. But if I can get it looking good in the snow I’m happy. But I was thinking of putting ice breakers on the really blunt edges

@jacobramsey7624 2 жыл бұрын

You need a wedge plow.

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Plan…

@trainman707 5 ай бұрын

Did you ever consider replacing the blades with metal ones?

@ToyManTelevision 5 ай бұрын

Yes. But as this is small I figured well it’s mostly just for fun. 🤩. Looks good and sora works.

@darthmurdoch 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool will u modify my rotary for a fee

@Coastwiser 2 жыл бұрын

I subscribed but I hit the like button because I was 421 for likes and we can't leave you there at 420... 🥶

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Hum. Well thanks! Never have figured out the 420 thing..

@WA1LBK 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting seeing the USA Trains rotary in action, layout looks great. Here's video I shot 13 years ago snow plowing on my garden railroad (I'm located in MA): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g62UhNmhmZm8eYU.html . The locomotives used are a oair of Accucraft live-steam Shays (a 3-cylinder & & 2 clyinder), both outfitted with RC control. An uncle of mine who just happened to show up to visit at that time was biven quick instruction on how to run the RC on the 2nd locomotive; I was busy running the lead loco & operating the camcorder! ;) Enjoy your channel very much!

@fagerlivegen9 4 ай бұрын

Very authentic but a bit helpless. I am working on a rig less authentic but able with metall prop. You made a beutiful Model though😊

@ToyManTelevision 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, this guy is really just for show. Not really for snow, but it’s fun trying!

@asbmp 2 жыл бұрын

you may need to sharpen the blades of your snow plow. the blades of the snow plow has to be razor sharp in order for it to work properly especially in the scale models

@ToyManTelevision 2 жыл бұрын

Well it’s just for fun.. but funner when snow is coming out of the Shute