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I had a question for you about the poor couple that were sitting at the crossing in that black SUV. I was waiting for you at some point to push them over to the other side. They were going to go pick up their kids from school, but they’re running extremely late…

Switching over Richard Shipping Services - doesn't that create some friction between those companies? Who does own the rail? The railroad or the companies?

Is the half car length stop prior to coupling, just for hazmat? Or is that a general practice? BTW at this point in the session, I'm completely wasted 😋

Hello! Your work has come up with a number of other model railroaders online and people I’m friends with locally, but different people pronounce your last name differently? How would you like your last name pronounced? The thing that I heard originally was mind where the min is similar to minute but I’ve heard some saying mind as jn where your thoughts come from. Thank you!

I really enjoy these videos showing operations at industries.

Yeah, they can be very temperamental, but they are very cool 👍🏿

Hi Lance, I'm very interested to follow this. I was looking into RF tags, readers, and go that route as triggers. I'm hoping there's an easy to use trigger system to go from detection to trigger sound card. Other option is just to trigger all sounds from a laptop and speakers. Lots of research. I like your simple system though. My thoughts are NO on board sound card systems! Dcc, DC, and thing could have RF chip inside. Laptop detects locations, triggers sounds. The issue there is, how would you detect loco speeds? Sound effects, it would be perfect. ;) Optical sensor also would be very cheap and easy to rig up to trigger your sound as rolling stock comes by. In the meanwhile, PLEASE stop wasting $60.00! There are so many options. Amazon if you must, Sound Module,16 MB Push Button Control Activated Vioce Chips,. If you do a little digging, you can find these for $3.00 from aliexpress! If I figure this out, I'll share free info so these con artists stop overcharge hobby folks! I hate to see that! $60.00 for a push button player is not at all reasonable and in fact, as you'll see very dishonest business IMHO. We need more sharing of idea so more can afford this hobby. The tech is out there for super cheap! Just takes digging! Also, try this. I can't share links, but here is the search for amazon: 30W Voice Playback Module, PEMENOL DC 9-24V Voice Broadcast Device 9 Trigger Interfaces 8 I/O Trigger Modes MP3 Music Player with Two Indicators Support TF Card 32G Max for Halloween DIY . With the last option, you have many triggers on one board, for $15.00 !!! And that is on Amazon. Imagine if you find the source on Aliexpress or ebay even! You'll have so much more fun for so much less. I'm going to share a video with optical sensing if I can tweak a ready made board to be your trigger. That would be 100% hands off audio. I'm getting there! Been out of hobby due to divorce. But, I"M BACK BABY! LOL. One last tip to get you to the best choice without research. Search on Amazon DY-SV8F. $7.95. Or get on ebay at or under $5.00 ! 8 Channels of playback, individually switched! Motion trigger per channel, WMYCONGCONG 10 PCS HC-SR501 PIR Modul. Up to you from there. I'll be setting this up later in the year again for testing. I did have this working for Halloween props.

Hi Lance, I am over in the UK and have modelled the GWR in 00 scale for many years. To rejuvenate my modelling mojo I am contemplating building a US H0 scale yard/switching layout and i find your videos inspirational and so helpful in explaining operational practice. I have a question for you regarding the control of the traffic lights on the highway crossing whilst switching. Would the conductor have access to the cabinet controlling the lights locally or would he radio an operational center to change the lights remotely as required. Regards Pete

I'm definitely enjoying watching this . I definitely want to do similar to that on my layout. Your layout I like the design & scenery as well. 👍

Uk viewer here. What is a "three-step" please?

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Great video. Very informative. I love seeing how operations work in the USA. I saw an EoT device that fits in th KD coupling on another channel. Have you seen those? You could add swapping it into the ops session.

Great switching session Lance. I love your attention to detail and narration as you go, feels much more immersive and lifelike. Ben.

Fantastic. Great to get an insite.

Your Walthers Kit that you assigned to deliver 🍷 wine looks like it's brand new. Walthers knew how to build some of these kits & a reboot of some of these classics. I also like the Mcain Reefer & the one i just mentioned. Would like replicas of these. I enjoyed watching these fleets & are inspirational. My second viewing of your channel. Very good 👍 🙂

How do you achieve that wonderful full sound in your videos? Do you have a subwoofer below the layout?

This operation would make a nice “beginner’s” shelf layout. A logistics warehouse and stub-end siding, a main line and passing siding, and maybe another stub-end siding off the main line that could model an “interchange” with a short line railroad. A couple of boxcars and reefers, maybe a gondola or tank car to leave at the interchange, and a 4-axle diesel, would really be all you need for some fun.

If it was just a switching puzzle, I’d hook up to the cars as shown @ 6:00 in, stop and uncouple the ARMN reefer from the Golden West boxcar. Now I can back up and pull the existing boxcar at Antares out with the ARMN. Pull past the left-most turnout, then shove that on the passing siding (front most track), and stop and leave it there. Now I can shove the reefer all the way in to Pan-Am, stop and leave it there. Pull back and grab the blue Golden boxcar and shove it into the spot for Antares and leave it there. Finally, I grab the yellow/orange TTX boxcar and shove it to whichever loading door Dixie wants it at. Back up and grab the empty I left on the passing siding, and I can head off to the next assignment (or back to the yard.) 😊

Really great video! Nice to see some switching which is a little bit different. Like that " team track is wherever the customer is" philosophy.

Glad to see you’ve finally started uploading more videos 🚂🔥🔥🔥🎯

Awesome

Love the videos Lance! I was reading in an old TH&B RR time table that loose material loads and mechanical loads (reefers) cannot be used as buffer cars. Maybe that has changed since the mid eighties?

What are the dimensions of this building in the beginning and where did you pick it up at? I literally have been looking for this exact type of warehouse with 4 loading bays. It’s apart of a industry that takes in reefers, boxcars, and small amounts of tanker or grain hoppers I’ve yet to figure out what I’ll name the industry and what it exactly does but it’s food processing related or a packing and distribution center but literally need that exactly haha

Does the handbrake set brakes on both trucks or just the truck on the "B" end?

Impressive intro and closing. Gave a totally different perspective on your layout. I’ve seen it in print but this was such an original way of seeing it on video. Love your channel!

Another great video showing some moves which many would consider easy. Very relaxing switching session. Also cool that you tried to recreate a real world video from Tolga!

This is great, and very helpful Lance. I have a quick question regarding the spotting of the cars. Let's say for example that only one of those two Dixie Plywood spots was a different customer....so 4 completely different customers. And one of the adjacent customers to DP needed a car, but the 60' car spotted at DP wouldn't allow for another car to be placed at the adjacent customer because of its length. Would that car simply get put in an off-spot until the DP car is fully unloaded and ready to be moved?

So when it comes to csx at least we really dont ever bother with waybills. Yes every car has one but really nowadays only the yardmaster or customer worry about waybills. Most conductors on locals know exactly what cars are going to what customer. Also your work order has several pages that will give you your customer, their cars to place (your spots) and their pulls (your pulls) and even then most conductors dont really look at it because especially now we have tablets that have all that information on them as well.

With csx we are technically supposed to do a safety stop before coupling in a customer and before fully spotting at a customer. Not always done in practice but it IS in the rulebook.

I have a scrap bale load idea a friend showed me years ago. All one needs is aluminum foil, an old ink pen and one socket. The end where the square section is will be used to make the square bale loads. Tear off one small piece of aluminum foil and push it through the big part of the socket into the square part with the old ink pen. Once it comes out of the square, shape it on a table into a square. (After that I like using pliers to shape it into a square.) Once the desired shape is finished, add a car door from an old car on one or two of the bales. Have a bumper sticking out of one bale. Weather them before or after they are put in the gondola. The trick for the Athearn blue box kits is to cut out one piece of cardboard that will fit inside the gondola. Glue it in (or not for removal). Add 3 bales across and 17 down for the gondola for a total of 51 bales. There are numerous possibilities with this load. One can use a smaller socket for small bales or a large socket can be used for large bales. Airbrush or use pastel chalks for weathering. After applying the pastel chalks spray with Dulcoat or hair spray. Yes, hair spray. The bales add just enough weight to make the gondolas roll better. One's hand will cramp up after making so many. Another trick is to use old Tyco track. Cut the rails off the track. (Use the ties on the side of the track as where the rail was ripped up but the ties were left there. Use rust brown for weathering the tie plates.) Bend the rails some and paint the rails burnt amber with some brown. Or whatever the model railroader prefers. Paint the front and back inside of the rail black. It will appear where a torch was used to cut it. Make many lengths. Happy Railroading everybody!

We would switch the loads out just clear of the switch ( less walking), not worrying about the crossing because you performing interstate commerce. ( the 10 minute deal on a blocked crossing no longer applies) Not to mention you no longer have to protect that crossing! Once everything is switched, then shove to clear the crossing. Come off light power and pull the empty. When you go spot the loads, a good conductor would tie the brakes before he spotted the cars on the doors to keep the cars from moving off of the spot. Tim is correct, derails are now required by the FRA to protect the main line. They also add a lot to the realism. Some industries also still use blue flags!

Excellent video.

nice explanation of basic ops lance !! also, it was very nice to be able to hear you during the session, as many youtubers have their engine volume up so high you can't hear sh-- !!! btw... i noticed you live in maryland, so does that mean you follow the generals ( i loved the redskins logo !!!), or the ravens ? i ask only because i live 20 minutes from highmark stadium, home of the bills, whom i have followed unfortunately since birth !!! bills will have 7-8 losses easily this year and no playoffs for sure. ravens are always tough and the generals have a good young quarterback... still, chiefs/bengals/ravens/texans and maybe browns will dominate the afc i think !!! regular sunday am schedule for me, church, run the pike, then football most of the day. whats your opinion ?

Good video Lance! I have to wonder if the lumber company staff would be okay with the wine delivery. 😉

Great video Lance. Quick question, when did railroads start servicing logistics warehouses like this? Would this type of operation be appropriate for the late 20s to the 50s?

Inspirational video Lance. The realism and care for details really inspires me with my layout!

The only thing that confuses me about OMNI Logistics is the numbering of the bays from right to left, instead of left to right!! I'm expecting the doors to read 1-2-3-4, rather than 4-3-2-1..!! I'd really mess up spotting cars! 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤣🤣

Interesting ops video Lance. Not only does this show the simplicity in the operation (push and shove moves) but also the relative complexity of having to reorder the cars to their respective positions. An interesting side note, not to be lost in the ether, is that even though East Rail II has 4 turnouts, this is a great example of a "conceptually" one turnout layout, as you demonstrated in this video. You only used the one turnout to complete all the moves. Keep up the good work. Enjoying the content.

You did right shoving the loads by and going in light to pull the empty. As far as sorting the loads in spot order, depends on how long the lead is if you are going to take each car all the way to the spot. On NS, like CSX a conductor can dismount moving equipment one car length prior to the coupling on lower profile siding tracks. Mainline couplings require a one car length safety stop. Also, prior to coupling to any car spotted at an industry you need to do a safety stop to make sure nothing is connected and the car is ready. One thing most folks don’t know is that boxcars are graded. For example, a grade A boxcar handles food grade items and printing paper. A grade b boxcar May handle lumber products and such while a grade c boxcar would handle bricks due to the roof leaking. That double-door GVSR box is actually a lumber service grade B car where that TBOX is considered a grade A car which technically could have handled either product. Good job on the session. You may want to invest in some MAC rail derails for your industry spur to add another layer of realism and another way to help slow a session down. Tim

Nice video Lance. You should also incorporate the brakes into the operating for again, more to do than just fiddling a knob. And add in crossing signals of the horn too, unless you have a flag protection.. but then get a figure to flag. This certainly shows switching a simple single industry can be very time consuming and rewarding! Great job! And wonderful sounds.. 😉👍🏻

Spectacular! Well done Lance, a very cool switching video. I like the challenge of shuffling cars to spot them. Using the stem of Big Hole lead and pulling the empty made for a great approach to this

@ 5:05... as it relates to how cars are blocked in the yard... it all depends on what class of service this job is in... is it a road job or a yard job... if this is a WAYFREIGHT (road job) then a yard job usually would block this type of train... but a yard engine (a regular old flat switcher) would only have a switchlist and not a work order... so he wouldn't be able to see how the customer would want each car lined up at industry... a plain old switchlist wouldn't show that... the flat switcher only blocks the cars in STATION ORDER... the responsibility of FURTHER blocking the cars to customer specifications would then fall on the wayfreight conductor... conductors on road jobs that go on duty at points where a yard engine is assigned do not block their own train now if this is classed as a YARD JOB (a YARD INDUSTRY JOB), then the yard crew would be responsible for *blocking their own train* , along with spotting the customers cars... in this example the yard foreman would have the switchlist *and* the workorder... with the workorder he'd be able to see how the customers wants the car/s spotted

Here at CSX we are able to do a rolling dismount 1 to 3 car lengths away from a coupling at no faster than 4 mph, if we feel like it is safe to do so. (they've change that dismount rule a few times between 50 or 150 ft from a coupling lol)

It looks a lot like the place where they parked the circus train in Orlando.

When coupling to a car in modeling, you sometimes move the car back up to an inch before a full stop..If brakes are set, does this mean you are theoretically sliding non-rolling wheels? If a full size loco hits a car too hard, what actually happens? Besides the clunk.

Excellent video Lance. You can also use car spots on a single industry. I had a grocery distributor and it had 4 loading doors for fruits and vegetables, baked goods and frozen meats. I agree with Tom K also about conducters riding all the way to a coupling. Too dangerous.

Great video that demonstrates you don't need a large layout to have a nice ops session. Just switching one spot specific industry is a good way to spend half an hour operating a layout. "Most" railroads don't allow the conductor riding the side of the car to ride all the way to the coupling, they require them to stop one car lenght away, dismount, then observe the coupling from the ground in a safe location.

Great video on the details, I really like the super details of switching.

This. Shelf layout is beautiful good job keep the videos up❤

In territory with steep grades five cars on each end of the cut had to have their hand brakes set. I read this in an SP timetable years ago.