I enjoyed your ops video. It looks like a fun layout to switch, lots of action in a compact space. Silky smooth couplings and realistic speeds are great to see. I look forward to seeing more videos and have subscribed to your channel.-Tom
Another fine time watching freight getting delivered in the old "Big Apple" Your eye for detail and the railroad operations are top notch. I like that NY Terminal Geep!!!
A great series of videos. I've watched from episode 1, and enjoyed them all. Fantastic real speed operation. I wonder if you could do a layout flyover / walk-around one day so we can see where all of the warehouses you operate to, sit in relation to one another? Thanks for sharing your lovely layout with us.
Thank you for the kind words. The Layout Tour video is, more or less, the flyover video you mentioned. It starts at the car float on one end of the layout and goes in sequence to the other end. I’m also seriously considering a longer, narrated layout tour, though it’s probably a few months out.
It’s inspired by the High Line and the terminal railroads that existed in New York Harbor, where freight cars arrived by car float and then delivered to industries nearby. I started out intending to model the High Line a little more prototypically, but as I progressed I wanted a little more creative freedom, both in terms of operations and scenery. Definitely want it to be Manhattan though!
Thanks you, I appreciate the feedback! You must really love slow speed switching, as I do. No, track plan has never been published. I drew it with pencil and graph paper about 11 years ago, built what I drew, and over the past decade have rearranged about two thirds of it, all for the better. Made it a little simpler in places, which led to better operating.
I do have a schematic drawn on graph paper. A little crude, not to scale, mostly for my own use re: planning switching operations. Happy to share if interested.
Another great video, and another super locomotive! You keep coming up with different ways to display your layout and your imagination in setting up each scene. Is that a GP-7 or aGP-9??
Great video! Question: was it normal NYCS practice to keep the caboose between the locomotive and the train? If so, was there a specific reason for doing so, or was it just convenient to have the conductor with instant physical access to the engineer for planning switching en route?
Good question. I can’t credibly speak to New York Central practice, but the rule for my layout is that the caboose can be anywhere in the train that facilitates switching and has to be on the point with a crewman aboard during the shoving move into The Docks Switching District. This is a point to point layout, a scale mile long, from the Yard to the Docks, so for safety reasons the caboose is on the point during the shove and rides behind the engine out of the Yard to facilitate that after the runaround. Hope that makes sense.
@@manhattanterminalrailroadh9776 That makes perfect sense. Operational requirements are requirements, regardless of whether the railroad is 1:1 or 1:1001.
It’s a Bluford Shops model. I bought two of them about eight or ten years ago. Have you searched on EBay? There are a few transfer cabooses listed there, at least in HO scale.
It’s a Bluford Shops model. I bought two of them eight or ten years ago. Have you checked Ebay? There are several transfer cabooses listed there, at least in HO scale.
Great New York scenes of freight train switching amid large buildings - very atmospheric. Thanks a lot for sharing>
Excellent Industrial Railroading!
Thanks again from one of us who remembers rail freight on the west side of Manhattan (although it was in it's last years when I was a kid).
It was still operating when I was a kid too, but I was much too busy gawking at ocean liners to notice.
As usual, nice video, looking for the next to come .
Stunning structures!
Very effective use of lighting. This is another fine video!! I always enjoy watching.
Thank you!
Fantastic. I hope my ops will be able to run at that sloooow speed. I'll soon see ,maybe a month or two.
Great video!
Sound was fantastic!
Thanks!
I enjoyed your ops video. It looks like a fun layout to switch, lots of action in a compact space. Silky smooth couplings and realistic speeds are great to see. I look forward to seeing more videos and have subscribed to your channel.-Tom
Thanks Tom! I appreciate the feedback.
Another fantastic Ops video. I love the slow speed switching, the sound, and especially all the details all around the tracks. Thanks! - Paul
Thanks Paul!
Another fine time watching freight getting delivered in the old "Big Apple" Your eye for detail and the railroad operations are top notch. I like that NY Terminal Geep!!!
Thanks! Appreciate the feedback. The NYT Geep is a new addition to the roster.
Beautiful layout.
Nice addition to the continuing saga. Looking forward to episode 15..
Thank you!
Very cool 😊, very well done 👍👍
Thank you!
Great video!
A great series of videos. I've watched from episode 1, and enjoyed them all. Fantastic real speed operation.
I wonder if you could do a layout flyover / walk-around one day so we can see where all of the warehouses you operate to, sit in relation to one another?
Thanks for sharing your lovely layout with us.
Thank you for the kind words. The Layout Tour video is, more or less, the flyover video you mentioned. It starts at the car float on one end of the layout and goes in sequence to the other end. I’m also seriously considering a longer, narrated layout tour, though it’s probably a few months out.
@@manhattanterminalrailroadh9776 Ahh, that is aweseom, on both counts. Thank you for taking the time to answer me.
Excellent control with the proto throttle 😅
Thanks Paul! I think the PT offers finer control.
Is this the High Line? This layout takes my imagination on a wonderful excursion into the past. I love this layout!
It’s inspired by the High Line and the terminal railroads that existed in New York Harbor, where freight cars arrived by car float and then delivered to industries nearby. I started out intending to model the High Line a little more prototypically, but as I progressed I wanted a little more creative freedom, both in terms of operations and scenery. Definitely want it to be Manhattan though!
cool cool!
Love the videos. Have watched all of them.
Has your track plan ever been published?
Would love to see it.
Doug Tagsold
Thanks you, I appreciate the feedback! You must really love slow speed switching, as I do. No, track plan has never been published. I drew it with pencil and graph paper about 11 years ago, built what I drew, and over the past decade have rearranged about two thirds of it, all for the better. Made it a little simpler in places, which led to better operating.
I do have a schematic drawn on graph paper. A little crude, not to scale, mostly for my own use re: planning switching operations. Happy to share if interested.
Another great video, and another super locomotive! You keep coming up with different ways to display your layout and your imagination in setting up each scene. Is that a GP-7 or aGP-9??
Thanks Tom! Always appreciate your comments. It’s a GP-7.
Where is this fabulous layout and is it open to Op Sessions??
nice
Great video!
Question: was it normal NYCS practice to keep the caboose between the locomotive and the train? If so, was there a specific reason for doing so, or was it just convenient to have the conductor with instant physical access to the engineer for planning switching en route?
Good question. I can’t credibly speak to New York Central practice, but the rule for my layout is that the caboose can be anywhere in the train that facilitates switching and has to be on the point with a crewman aboard during the shoving move into The Docks Switching District. This is a point to point layout, a scale mile long, from the Yard to the Docks, so for safety reasons the caboose is on the point during the shove and rides behind the engine out of the Yard to facilitate that after the runaround. Hope that makes sense.
@@manhattanterminalrailroadh9776 That makes perfect sense. Operational requirements are requirements, regardless of whether the railroad is 1:1 or 1:1001.
Where did you get the transfer caboose?
Have been trying to find one for some time.
It’s a Bluford Shops model. I bought two of them about eight or ten years ago. Have you searched on EBay? There are a few transfer cabooses listed there, at least in HO scale.
It’s a Bluford Shops model. I bought two of them eight or ten years ago. Have you checked Ebay? There are several transfer cabooses listed there, at least in HO scale.
@@manhattanterminalrailroadh9776 I have looked on Ebay but no luck so far.
Thanks