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Love this video. FYI, Tangent just released four different of those bay window RI cabooses with working interior light and top red and green lights that you turn on and off with a magentic wand through the roof. Has a keep alive and the lights stay on for about 25 seconds after power is cut. I bought one of the white repaint Route Rocks from 1979 down at the St.Louis RPM meet and was playing with it this evening. Details are off the charts. Metal screen over the door windows, open grate steps. They have red and yellow ones too. Also UP repaints. They just dropped this weekend 7/20/24. I in no way am associated with them, just thought you'd be interested.

Where is this railroad located?

Thanks so much for capturing the spirit of the Rock Island! SAY NO TO BLUE!!

Fantastic intro video! * subscribed *

Lots of great loads. Thanks for creating the video

What’s the toggle switch at South Buckeye…evening lights on the display?

Very impressively long opening consist! Nice!😊

Very good information thank you

very nice

Great layout.

Beautiful Rock Island Layout ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I thought the Union Pacific And Rock Island tried to Merge in the 1960s Amazing 👏 ❤

Stunning layout, really enjoyed your tour very much! What I found interesting, was the two rather large yards directly on top of each other. I recently read a piece by Lance Mindheim where he took a look at two deck layouts and he described exactly that situation as something that you never should do ☺. He wrote the operating crews would just not have enough space to work in a place like that. Guess Lance is not always right 😉 Keep up the great work!

Right up there with Neil Schofields CP in Vermont layout. You wonder what wouldve happened if the merger hadnt happened. Such smaller roads aways seem to give better service.

Great action and cool video 👍

Great tutorial for Ops on your layout I greatly enjoy it. Does it happen you have more crew than trains? If so what do you do? Does it happen that trains "terminate" faster then expected as well? Thanks again for the great video

Pretty interesting. Thanks for sharing. Dave

Operation makes all the work pay off.

beautiful!!!!

So well done.Great midwestern atmosphere, it’s like a time machine 😎🚂🇺🇸

Another great video Mike and a nice tutorial on how operations occur on your railroad. Have a great summer and we’ll see you next time!

Thank you for sharing. Hey Mike, I like the control drawer for the turntable @ 11:25, what a great idea.👍

The dispatcher’s board is reminiscent of the board used at the Armourdale Yard Relay Office to keep track of trains on the line to St. Louis

Great video Mike!!! I was looking at the MR magazine again with your layout and saw you retired from BNSF and lived in Texas, did you ever do any work out of Temple TX, I pass over that yard on I35 on my way down to Laredo every so often, it looks huge!!!

Great info on operation. Fun to watch your railroad in action. Thanks.

hmmm, at 10:15 shouldn't that signal at the end of the platform need to have been red?

Great video Mike. OS meaning "On Sheet" is interesting and appropriate. Especially before CTC when Station Agents, train crews, and operators had to report their location to the dispatcher. The term "On Station" became common nomenclature once CTC became widely used because it would provide electronic/visual feedback to the dispatcher. That's how dispatchers and I used the term on the MoPac & UP. But again, railroads are conglomerations and the nomenclature terms are like a soup of intersecting terms and meanings stirred together in a large caldron and used differently in different areas. That's why your use of the term is so fun and it is the right term. One of the interesting train reporting methods I remember using is "Train Registers" that were located in dispatcher phone boxes at junctions in Dark Territory and at junctions that went from Dark Territory to signaled territory. Every train would have to stop and fill out the Train Register and reference the Train Register for trains told to wait for. Can you imagine having an operating session where you used "Train Orders" with a person designated as an operator/agent at every station? The train crews would run deaf with no communication with a central dispatcher, but rather received main track authority and operating instructions from the operator at each station? Thank you Kevin Dawson

Excellent, if short overviewof whatloooksto be a fun Ops session on what isone of my favourite layouts to watch...! Thanks for posting and cheers from Melbourne, Australia.

Such a fantastic layout, thanks for sharing an Ops Session with us!

A VERY interesting video!!! Thanks for sharing with us!!!! Love the Layout!!!!

Just a gorgeous layout! Thank you for letting us have a look at this!

Thank you

Fantastic layout! World class modeling. Thanks for sharing!

Mike, I could watch over and over.

Love the gp 30 gyra light

Mike what a neat video. First the Chicago Grape Western, then the Chicago Red Western.

Love the layout- love the guys! Just an incredible setup. Rich

They sound and look great. Hoping to buy these soon

Man, this is a really sweet layout. I’m a Chessie system modeler but these RI engines look fantastic. Was always interested in this railroad. Thanks for sharing.

The classic SD40-2s are my faves. I have HO brass versions from Overland Models. Nice layout btw.

Beautiful layout. Thanks for sharing.

Great job guys 🙂☕👍

I really enjoyed this video!!! NICE layout, and your crews seem to run at the right speeds. VERY NICE!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

Very nice. Amazing every video I see something new.

Very enjoyable. Thank you

Very interesting op session.

Terrific looking layout. Very impressive.

I am fortunate enough to live local and was invited back to another one of Mike's operating session. Like the first time, this one was just a ton of fun. These guys are all the best and more than patient with a rookie like me. Also, it doesn't hurt that the track was perfectly laid and is meticulously maintained.

Dispatching is fun Good idea with the radio. Looks like a great Ops. Well done

Beautiful layout. The total package. The room and layout is very well lit. Scenery is spot on and well done. All weathering is also well done especially the locomotives. Nice crew size not too many folks. So nicely done.

Wow, reliable turnouts! Imagine THAT!