Dear mister Burgess, Thanks so very much for the wonderfull video’s of your layout and the fantastic one of the history of the RR and the logging company. Being a subscriber of RR Model Craftsman I read the story and searched google earth and our RR atlas of North America (steam powered Videos). With modern technics it is possible to travel without leaving home, not the best way but second best. I have never been in California but I know the inclines from my visits to Wales where slate was transported that way. You honour those men working hard doing their jobs without all the safety regulations from our time. I fully agree taking and watching photos make a great base for modelling. Thanks so very much. Marina Holland
Thanks...this was the shortest video that John and I have done and I was concerned that there might not be enough information in it to make it worthwhile... Jack
Grew up in this hobby reading about his layout that was thirty plus years ago and Mr. Burgess is still talking about it, dedication to a prototype that is inspiration at it's finest, great video of a great modeler and man.
Impressive....the title of the video should be "Historically appropriate Weathering". You've certainly taken "weathering" to a science involving research and logic. As I said - impressive and informative. Great vid!
great videos mr burgess as usual. most of the dust on the locomotive drivers and tender was not from the roadbed but the sanders on the drivers which ground the sand up pretty fine.
Jack is absolutely right here, most model railroaders over-weather their freight cars. Most railroads during the pre-war (WWII) era repainted their cars every few years, with the exception of the few wooden axle short lines that didn’t have enough traffic or income to justify it. Generally, the older a piece of equipment was, the more weathered it tended to look, especially if it was something like a Maintenance of Way car that had outlived its usefulness elsewhere. Cars in revenue service tended to look better, so you wouldn’t see big splotches of black soot covering the entire body. However, you did begin to see a trend of filthy freight cars during the postwar era, around the transition, as many railroads had to cut costs with the decline of freight traffic and the rise of competition from trucks and automobiles. Nearly all other periods before this, weathering on MOST equipment was minimal, unless it was an older, non-revenue car.
i tip my cap to modelers of bygone eras... one of the drawbacks of modeling the past is the possible scarcity of photos for research... lot of times you left to just guess what was... much easier to model the later years or at least the years that rrpicturearchives has on it's website... at least you know that you'll have access to research photos
@@yvfan jack I'm a huge fan of yours. Your layout is simply amazing. But yes 1.9 is a tough pull. We have some 1.8 and 1.9 ruling grades. It doesn't take long for our wheels and trucks to start getting caked with sand residue. Jeff Knoop
The details are incredible!
It's so hard to differentiate the prototype photos, and your model photos. 👍💯⭐
Dear mister Burgess,
Thanks so very much for the wonderfull video’s of your layout and the fantastic one of the history of the RR and the logging company.
Being a subscriber of RR Model Craftsman I read the story and searched google earth and our RR atlas of North America (steam powered Videos).
With modern technics it is possible to travel without leaving home, not the best way but second best.
I have never been in California but I know the inclines from my visits to Wales where slate was transported that way. You honour those men working hard doing their jobs without all the safety regulations from our time.
I fully agree taking and watching photos make a great base for modelling.
Thanks so very much.
Marina
Holland
Thanks Marina...
Jack
Hard to argue with an expert. Great simple reasoning.
Great lesson from a great model railroad master.
I like jack Burgess he is the best!!🏆🚂
Thanks...this was the shortest video that John and I have done and I was concerned that there might not be enough information in it to make it worthwhile...
Jack
Extraordinary.
Grew up in this hobby reading about his layout that was thirty plus years ago and Mr. Burgess is still talking about it, dedication to a prototype that is inspiration at it's finest, great video of a great modeler and man.
Impressive....the title of the video should be "Historically appropriate Weathering". You've certainly taken "weathering" to a science involving research and logic. As I said - impressive and informative. Great vid!
I just weathered six cars this morning. I should have waited!
great videos mr burgess as usual. most of the dust on the locomotive drivers and tender was not from the roadbed but the sanders on the drivers which ground the sand up pretty fine.
That makes sense...the steepest grade on the YV was a mile of 1.9% and traffic on that section was generally limited to passenger trains.
Jack Burgess
Wow Jack your incredibly good at weathering
Very interesting, thank you for the video
Thanks Joe...
Jack Burgess
Love your yv caboose
Jack is absolutely right here, most model railroaders over-weather their freight cars. Most railroads during the pre-war (WWII) era repainted their cars every few years, with the exception of the few wooden axle short lines that didn’t have enough traffic or income to justify it. Generally, the older a piece of equipment was, the more weathered it tended to look, especially if it was something like a Maintenance of Way car that had outlived its usefulness elsewhere. Cars in revenue service tended to look better, so you wouldn’t see big splotches of black soot covering the entire body. However, you did begin to see a trend of filthy freight cars during the postwar era, around the transition, as many railroads had to cut costs with the decline of freight traffic and the rise of competition from trucks and automobiles. Nearly all other periods before this, weathering on MOST equipment was minimal, unless it was an older, non-revenue car.
Thanks
i tip my cap to modelers of bygone eras... one of the drawbacks of modeling the past is the possible scarcity of photos for research... lot of times you left to just guess what was... much easier to model the later years or at least the years that rrpicturearchives has on it's website... at least you know that you'll have access to research photos
Probably wasn't "dust" as he mentioned. Guessing it was sand residue from the drivers
That makes sense...the steepest grade on the YV was a mile of 1.9% and traffic on that section was generally limited to passenger trains.
Jack Burgess
@@yvfan jack I'm a huge fan of yours. Your layout is simply amazing. But yes 1.9 is a tough pull. We have some 1.8 and 1.9 ruling grades. It doesn't take long for our wheels and trucks to start getting caked with sand residue.
Jeff Knoop
Dang Jack is always #1 ichy-bon John been trying to watch some of today's Virtual just not good with Zoom trying tho
Would very much like to watch you do a video on weathering passenger cars in the 60s.
I would not have a clue how to do that...
Jack Burgess