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@@Howie2025 No, I use RixPix, I think they are called to manually uncouple the cars. I just edit it out of the videos most of the time to keep it flowing. Occasionally I’ll slip up and leave one in, but I don’t have any magnets on the layout. Thanks for watching and your nice comment. Enjoy your evening and stay safe!

@@MRR_Shadowolf Thank you for the feedback. The silos were made by GCLaser. They are a 2-pack and I stacked them to make it taller. Have a great Thursday, see you Saturday for operations. Stay safe!

@@dougeing6521 Thanks for watching. Enjoy the rest of your week and stay safe!

Thank you for your comments. I try to narrate like we’re friends talking , so I’m glad you’re comfortable with it and enjoy it. Stay warm and stay safe!😊

@@TrentHulbert Thanks Trent. Your photos helped a lot!

@@MilwaukeeNW I agree. I like the sound, some people don’t. Guess it’s what you are used to. Everything I run has sound. Thanks for watching and your nice comments. Stay safe!

@@jebbthetrainkid1281 Thanks for watching and subscribing, Jebb. That’s really cold. Calling for -4 here Tuesday night I appreciate your feedback. I try to post an operations video every Saturday morning and other stuff as I get to it. Have a great week. Stay warm and safe!

@@js4folk Thanks for watching and your nice comments. Have a great week and stay safe!

@@frantesorero Thanks Fran. It’s a mixture of 2 and 4 mm static grass, different colors. I have no idea what it is exactly at this point.🤔 I just throw more stuff in the bag until it looks right to my eye. Have a great week. Heading to Indiana for the week prepping for my last training session before I retire. Stay safe!

@@fredgemmill617 Thanks for your thoughts and ideas, Fred. I’m going to go with these for now. I’m satisfied with them. Maybe when I run out of stuff to do I’ll try to figure out something. In the deep freeze for a few days here, good modeling weather if work didn’t get in the way! Have a great week and stay safe!

@@KevinSage-mu2eq Hi Kevin. I’m still working but planning on retiring this summer. My backdrops are by Faller. About $50 for 10-12 feet of if I remember right. Midwest Model Railroad was where I got it. If you Google ‘free model railroad backdrops’, you might find something that you can print or take it to a Walgreens to print. Glad you enjoyed the videos. Have a great week and stay safe!

@@mikedkc Well, I guess I need to be sure to add more pet pictures, Mike!😁 Thanks for watching and subscribing! Have a great week, more operations next Saturday! Stay safe!

@@shortliner68 Thanks for your nice comments. I don’t know if I would like to duplicate the smoke those old Alcos put out. Fun to watch, though. I’ve never seen an electric model train in any scale provide realistic smoke. Probably a good thing. Next Saturday the Alco will be the star of the show switching in Oak Hill. Hope you can join in. Have a great week and stay safe!

@@kahunatiki6498 Good evening Scott. I didn’t announce the video. Was actually planning on adding the engine terminal to it before publishing but the package is delayed. Thanks for your great comments. I think my specialty is tedious work. 😁 Busy day tomorrow. Chiropractor, PT on my shoulder, a crown popped off today so hopefully the dentist and 3 hour drive to Princeton. Have a great week, maybe some trains in the cold this week. Stay safe!

@@thomplacier677 you and me both on tedious work being a staple! I spent this weekend finish painting all of the brass trolley hardware on my trolley poles gray. Has to be done under the magnifying lamp. Got them all finished and they look pretty good. Hoping to start installing and stringing wire next weekend. Busy day for you tomorrow. Take care and a safe drive.

@@donaldshroyer8633 Thank you. I hope you’ve had a good weekend. Stay safe!

@@Longshadowsmodeltrees Thank you, Bob. I hope things are well with you. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday and stay safe!

@@harperlarry49 Thank you, Larry. I hope you’re doing well. Cold and snowy here! Enjoy the rest of your weekend and stay safe!

@thomplacier677 cold and windy here.

@@tommynorwood5184 Hi Tommy. Same here. Bitter cold for a few days. Thanks for watching and commenting. Hope your weekend has gone well. Stay safe!

@@edgein7892 Hi Ed. They probably did just flag the crossing. The moves were infrequent and slow at this point. Thanks for your comments. I hope your weekend is going well. Stay safe!

@@frankkie3849 Hi Frankkie3849. Thank you for your nice comments. I posted a layout tour on Christmas Day if you want to check that out. In my playlists, I have a series about building Standard Elevator and in the N scale playlist I talk about some more buildings. As far as vehicles, I also just posted a video about building some farm trucks. Most of my vehicles are 3D printed by Brian Federoff and in the N scale playlist I show you how I build one of them. I always try to answer every question and comment so ask away! Have a great Sunday and stay safe!

@ thanks for the reply I will definitely look at it,,

@@richgreene7043 Hi Rich. We’ve gotten a couple of inches, radar looks like it’s about done. Temp dropping all day to 3 in the morning, maybe 0 Wednesday morning. Just shoveled everything, easy to do when it’s this dry and I won’t be here to shovel after today. Thanks for the feedback. Plugging along, running out of big things to do. Don’t work too hard shoveling snow, my friend! Stay safe!

@@Crookedriverandeasternrr I realize that there are a lot of great videos out there on RUclips, so I want to keep you entertained and involved. My layout is much better from things I’ve learned from the comments and questions that made me dig deeper for answers. Your comments make me feel good about what I’m doing, so thank you. You are a part of it in my eyes. Have a great Sunday afternoon and evening. Stay safe!

@@richgreene7043 Hi Rich. Been a busy day so far here, I’m trying to keep up with answering comments. I’m glad you enjoyed the video and those are 2 of my favorite scenes, too. I want to thank YOU for your continued support and friendship through my channel. Have a great Sunday and stay safe!

Thanks Rich. I try to add as much as I can. Freelancing isn’t for me, I guess. My garden railroad is freelanced, though. I hope you had a great weekend. Stay safe!

@@MichaelManiscalco-k5k I hope it’s not too bad, Michael. We’ve gotten about 2” here, very light and fluffy, blowing around. Stay warm and safe!

@@jackheninger5471 Jack, if you are patient enough to use that method for mortar lines, I tip my hat to you! A lot more mortar lines than what I was dealing with. I think colored art pencils seem to have softer lead, too. I couldn’t have done this with a regular pencil I think. Mid 20’s now dropping to 3 tonight. Forecast is -1 for Wednesday morning, highs in the teens the next 2 days. About 2” of snow so far today, might be finished. Been a bad winter do far considering we’re only 1/3 through it! Thanks for your nice comments. Stay warm and safe!

Patience I've got. I don't have to do them all at the same time thankfully.

I’m going to try Evergreen tubing first. If it sags, I’ll get some brass or aluminum tubing. Snowing steady here, supposed to get 1-3” today. 3 degrees tonight, driving to Indiana tomorrow. 0 Tuesday night before starting to warm up. Stay warm and safe, Rich.

Hi Thom@@thomplacier677, Have a safe trip to Indiana, hopefully the roads will be salted and just wet for your trip. Stay warm. Cheers, Rich S.

@@RWSBaden Good morning Rich. I don’t know why they would have deleted it. Doesn’t sound like you said anything wrong. Maybe the Jetsons is copyright material and their algorithm flagged it? This one came through fine. You are right that the GP7 could do it all, at least in real life. It could probably move the 11 cars at the same time, not sure since I have done so much to reduce the bobbing. Or I could uncouple from the train before I reach Main Street, shove the cars, and go back to get the train. I really life, what I call the Oak Hill turn also had other work to do. It’s 55 miles from Chillicothe to Oak Hill, about 1/2 of that on the mainline where they might have to wait on a siding for a train to pass. There was work to do in other towns along the way which I have ignored in my world, so the train probably left Chillicothe with cars for Hamden, Wellston, and Jackson at the least. The operating pattern changed over the years. Sometimes the train would got from Chillicothe to the yard in Wellston and a crew based in Wellston would switch everything south. In my mind, just like my yard switching, things are happening at the same time even though I can only film one aspect of it. So, the OHI crew helps the Chessie crew get out of town so they don’t ‘outlaw’ ( which was not uncommon) and as soon as they leave the yard limits, they start switching Oak Hill. So they were on duty. Your suggestion is certainly plausible and may be what they would have done. It just gives me an excuse to make the operation more interesting to me and hopefully the people watching. Thank you for your thoughts and comments. I had never considered doing it that way, but may try it at some point in the future. I’m always learning stuff! Have a great Sunday and stay safe!

@@achb-railway Thank you for watching and commenting. I post an operations video every Saturday morning if you enjoy that type of content. Have a great Sunday and stay safe!

@@ajknaup3530 Thank you. I appreciate the feedback. Have a great Sunday and stay safe!

@@calvincurtiss2490 Sounds like a bumper sticker I saw once: “If you don’t like the way I drive, stay off the sidewalk!” 😁 I appreciate your comments, Calvin. I post an operations video every Saturday with a lot of switching. Stay safe!

@@calvincurtiss2490 Thanks for watching, Calvin. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and stay safe!

@@TheGulfwind Well, I hope everyone doesn’t rush to the grocery and clean out the milk and bread! That’s what happens here. Thanks for watching. Stay warm and safe down there!

@@SpringfieldAndWestern Benjamin, I was in N scale in the late 1980’s and then away from it for over 25 years. I’m afraid that I can’t answer your question. Have you ever heard of Spookshow? He has an encyclopedia of almost every N scale locomotive ( American prototype) ever made and if you go to his site, I’m sure you will learn something. Google ‘ spookshow n scale’ and you’ll find the site. Tons of information there. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend. Good luck finding your answer and stay safe!

@thomplacier677 thanks for the quick reply! Yes, indeed I know Spookshow and in fact that's where my question came from. He is referring to the introduction of slow speed on the Atlas GP7 site and names the introduction of scale speed on the Atlas GP38 site. Further googling produced mixed results, some people say scale speed is even slower that slow speed, some people say they are basically the same. Anyways, many thanks!

@@michaell.maloney4026 Hi Michael. I have never been there but used to hear my Dad talk about the Waterloo Wonders. Thanks for sharing your memory with me. Have a great weekend. Stay warm and stay safe!

@@davestrains6816 I purchased it some time ago, Dave. I think off eBay, can’t remember now. It’s well done and unique. I think it was unpainted. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend and stay safe!

@@jackheninger5471 I guess you’ll have to enjoy trains vicariously through RUclips until after you settle in. Hopefully you’ll have space for a layout in your new house. Big cool down here too for a few days, then more seasonable. We’ve had some melting, roads are good, but garden is still encased in ice. Going to take awhile before I can run it again. May have had some frost heave, too. Stay warm and safe, Jack!

@@tommynorwood5184 Hi Tommy. Temp dropping all day today, maybe 1-2” of snow tomorrow and getting really cold. Single digits 3 nights in a row. And we’re only 1/3 through winter! Thanks for watching. You stay warm and safe, too.

@@edgein7892 I agree that even the suggestion of 2 locomotives running is nice. I turned the sound off on the Alco, but left the headlight on. I’m going to focus on more closeups moving forward I think, even if it means moving the camera more or leaving some stuff out. Still enjoy that long view through Oak Hill, though. And I am happy with the way the bridge came out. Walked around the back yard today through the crunchy snow picking up dog waste while it was still on top. Quite a bit since I haven’t been walking them in this ice and snow. More coming I’m afraid. Stay warm and safe, my friend!

@@thomplacier677 I suddenly remember walking my Rottweiler years back when he saw his first snow. Went completely berserk, every snowflake was a treat. Living in a built up area there would never be much ice so you could just walk dogs. Couldn't drag him out for love nor money when it rained though, just kept looking at you with a face that said: No way Jose, aint going in that wet mess 😄

@@JDsHouseofHobbies I do not have my cabooses in JMRI. They tended to keep the same caboose for months at a time for the Oak Hill run. I just pull the others out occasionally to rotate them. My Alco is a Bachmann. I had an Atlas with sound, but the Bachmann is a better runner, at least after Benjamin Horne put the sound decoder in it. Thanks for watching and for your question. Have a great weekend and stay safe!

@@Koen5050 I really appreciate your nice comments. That is exactly what I am trying to accomplish and what I enjoy doing. Have a great weekend and I hope you join me next week when we start to switch Oak Hill. Stay safe!

Agreed. I don't know if I'll ever have back stories for my industries, but Thom is an insproration for my future switching layout.

@@JDsHouseofHobbies I guess I’m just not creative enough. I want my back stories to be believable so I use what really happened ( most of the time anyway). If I don’t know what happened, I just use logic and make my best guess. Thanks again for your nice comments.

I CONCUR WITH YOU

@@kahunatiki6498 Hood morning Scott. Just started raining here, temp drop all day and maybe an inch or two of snow tomorrow before the frigid air hits. Rough winter for us so far. I purchased the scrap load. I think it was on eBay, don’t know who made it. It does look good, I think. This time of year it will be dark about 5:00 in Princeton so if I do shoot videos I won’t be out there long and will be in the vehicle until the train gets close! Maybe an inch or two of snow tomorrow but the garden is still encased in ice. No videos. Thanks for the compliments. I’m going to try to shoot more closeup’s and move the camera more often I think. Of course, one advantage of N scale is being able to model larger expanses of scenery so I’ll still have some long shots. Need to put the feeders out. Have a great weekend and stay safe!

@@MichaelManiscalco-k5k Good morning Michael. Our forecast has changed dnd now we may get a couple of inches of snow tomorrow! Then it gets really cold for a few days. Thanks for watching. Stay warm and safe!

@@RWSBaden Hi Rich. If I just rotate them to the back, they’ll never be seen. I’ve been playing with it. I’m going to toy with the idea to make the seams a little darker so they will stand out more like the prototype did.. Warming up here for a couple of days before crashing back down. Been a fairly rough winter so far. Stay warm and stay safe!

@@RWSBaden I think RUclips blocked your comment on today’s video. It showed that you made a comment briefly and then wasn’t there when I went to look at it.

@@fredgemmill617 Hi Fred. Your standing seam roofing idea sounds very difficult. Still, a package of that is pretty inexpensive to play with and I still have some PVC, so maybe I’ll give it a shot. What I’m doing will be more true than the metal silos but still not accurate. Thanks for the tip on Iowa Scaled Engineering. Leave it to Iowa to make accurate models of grain elevators! I will check them out. Into the 40’s here a couple of days and then back into the deep freeze. Last winter was mild by Kentucky standards, this one is not starting out to be since we’re only 1 month in. Enjoy the rest of your week and stay safe!

@@fredgemmill617 Iowa Scaled Engineering is the same place as the first place I talked about. 😁

@@kahunatiki6498 Hi Scott. Your weather sounds like ours. A couple of days in the 40’s and the hammer drops Monday. I’ll be traveling next week, too. My favorite railfan place, Princeton, but it will be getting dark at 5:00 over there. Have to figure out something to do in the hotel. Enjoy the rest of your week and stay safe!

@@frantesorero I guess with the fall off of paper magazines, I don’t see ads for new stuff like I used to. That Steel Mill site has tons of stuff. Mostly HO and O scale, but hopefully they will expand some. I may use these as stand-ins and try to do a better job of replicating the real ones in the photo at some point. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend even though you are living a perpetual weekend now! 😁

@@harperlarry49 Thanks Larry. I may get a wild hair and try to make a better representation of them in the future using the PVC as the base again. Need to try to figure out a way to do it without trying to glue on 100+ individual pieces and keep everything lined up!🤔 Thanks for watching. Stay safe!

@@tommynorwood5184 Hi Tommy. The pvc pipe is 2” in diameter. Our local Lowe’s sells short pieces so I didn’t have to buy a 10 foot piece. I guess that would make it around 26-27 feet in diameter in real life. I have no way of knowing what they actually were, so I just try to make it look right to my eye. Warming up for a couple of days before back into the deep freeze next week. Enjoy the rest of your week and stay safe!