shortliner Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZUJWn-u7NA#t=709 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof Klyzlr Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Dear Jack, ...and if Shilshole Yard is nothing but a passing-loop, then I call "Micro layout build" on that.... ;-) Watch the video again, there's even ready-made viewblocks!!! - Setup dropleaf staging at Right for the BNSF SD40,- dropleaf staging at left for a Ballard Southern SW9,and we've got a fully-modellable "Big RR<>Shortline interchange" situation in well-under 8x1 in HO... Happy Modelling,Aim to Improve,Prof Klyzlr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted October 6, 2014 Author Share Posted October 6, 2014 Dear Jack, ...and if Shilshole Yard is nothing but a passing-loop, then I call "Micro layout build" on that.... ;-) Watch the video again, there's even ready-made viewblocks!!! - Setup dropleaf staging at Right for the BNSF SD40, - dropleaf staging at left for a Ballard Southern SW9, and we've got a fully-modellable "Big RR<>Shortline interchange" situation in well-under 8x1 in HO... Happy Modelling, Aim to Improve, Prof Klyzlr Great Minds, Prof - Great Minds! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof Klyzlr Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Dear Jack, C/O GoogleMaps https://goo.gl/maps/e74Vz Happy Modelling,Aim to Improve,Prof Klyzlr PS have to say I've always preferred the Meeker Southern over the Ballard Southern,but they are owned by the same company, so I'm still keen... ;-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 good lord, I had to re-read the name of that yard.... BNSF switching what hole? also, not just any old SD40-2 but a rebuilt ATSF SD45-2! Nice bit of kit alright! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 That clip has been posted up some time, do keep up Jack!! "Interchange Yard" does sound rather more grand than 'Siding', doesn't it?? And yes I think I'd be tempted to change the location name even if I was actually proto-modelling the BDTL itself. Trouble is that's also the name of the main street they run down!! Finally a modern-livery, clean locomotive, with just a one car consist at the end... what's not to like??!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted October 6, 2014 Author Share Posted October 6, 2014 Yes Prof - I've followed that around previously - I see that according to Wikipedia they now own a third line, The Eastside Freight Railroad from Snohomish to Woodinville - but that the authorities may have ripped up the track last year after a court case Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof Klyzlr Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Dear Jack, Pity, from the YTs I saw the Eastside had a lot of modelling potential going for it, inc caboose-first hops... Happy Modelling,Aim to Improve,Prof Klyzlr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof Klyzlr Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Dear F-Unit, "Interchange Yard" does sound rather more grand than 'Siding', doesn't it?? Yes, but "siding" implies a UK-esque industry, or something altogether quaint,"Interchange" clearly sets-out the handover of cars from one defined railroad to another...(did the UK "big four" actually "interchange" goods between each other?) Happy Modelling,Aim to Improve,Prof Klyzlr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold D9020 Nimbus Posted October 6, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 6, 2014 Dear F-Unit, Yes, but "siding" implies a UK-esque industry, or something altogether quaint, "Interchange" clearly sets-out the handover of cars from one defined railroad to another... (did the UK "big four" actually "interchange" goods between each other?) Happy Modelling, Aim to Improve, Prof Klyzlr Yes, the UK "big four" did interchange wagons between each other. Bob Essery's books on railway operation mentioned this, and the use of "exchange sidings". Apparently this process was even used between different divisions of the LMS I.e. North Western and Midland. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Dear F-Unit, Yes, but "siding" implies a UK-esque industry, or something altogether quaint, "Interchange" clearly sets-out the handover of cars from one defined railroad to another... (did the UK "big four" actually "interchange" goods between each other?) Happy Modelling, Aim to Improve, Prof Klyzlr Re "siding" I was just using the US term for a passing loop. BR also exchanged freight between Regions, which of course were more or less the Big Four by another definition!! Off topic:- It's what made freight by rail so slow & expensive, once the motorway network was started and lorries could do more than 40mph. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted October 6, 2014 Author Share Posted October 6, 2014 For anyone who is interested, Youtube appears to have a large number of videos of the Eastside Freight Railroad - this is just one of them Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supaned Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Also good to see "big" motive power with short trains and in local service - prototype for everything department again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 BNSF do keep their track in good nick.... That second one, Jack. I thought it was a steam engine approaching. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TotalLamer Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Honestly at this point it's FAR more unusual to see "big" motive power like a SD40-2 on the road than it is in local or switching service. "Big" motive power now is pretty much the exclusive domain of wide cabs... GEVOs and the like. Hell even stuff like CW40-8s are mostly used in local service anymore. SD40-2's are the preferred yard engine, from what I see. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parthia27 Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 BNSF seem to use a variety of SD40-2s for workings in and out of Stacey St and Interbay Yards in Seattle. I love the SD40-2R on the Youtube Jack, I've seen this clip multiple times. However if I was to model an SD40-2 for this layout it would have to be http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2125490 :-). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TotalLamer Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Although I will admit, with seemingly all the Big 4 (but especially CSX) critically short on power these days, I do see old timers in consists occasionally, though still not all that often. Had a 179 car, 11,000 foot, 17,400 ton Q410 out of Rocky Mount awhile back whose consist was a ES40DC in the lead followed by a SD40-2 and then a SD50 taking up the rear. All online of course. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Street running too? What's not to love. You could technically do a 'round the walls' home layout based on this line - granted with a lot of selective compression, but still... Nice find Jack. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 For anyone who hasn't seen it, here's Dick Wightman's website account of his ride on the Ballard Terminal, from 2004; http://www.dickwightman.com/railroad/modelrailroad/btrr/rideonbtrr.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Dear F-Unit, Yes, but "siding" implies a UK-esque industry, or something altogether quaint, "Interchange" clearly sets-out the handover of cars from one defined railroad to another... (did the UK "big four" actually "interchange" goods between each other?) Happy Modelling, Aim to Improve, Prof Klyzlr It's the 'yard' bit that gives it delusions of grandeur. Interchange siding.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 What a quaint and thoroughly awesome railroad. Kind of want to model it myself now! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 What a quaint and thoroughly awesome railroad. Kind of want to model it myself now! In O Scale, too .... go on, you know it makes sense...!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Don't tempt me! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 For anyone who is interested, Youtube appears to have a large number of videos of the Eastside Freight Railroad - this is just one of themhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApDg5fwu3DE Found the loco "shed" on Google earth....loco and caboose in residence. Apparently this line is now dead. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof Klyzlr Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 (Prof turns his prodigious mental excitations towards DanB) Tempt... Tempt... Tempt... Tempt... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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