@@dferg100 Not so great for my mother, who had to deal with coal smoke 7/24. Not so great when you are waiting at a grade crossing and hoping you can get to the next grade crossing before the train does. But riding the trains was great. I rode the Powhatan Arrow, the Pocahontas, and the Cavalier many times.
Great idea of showing the Prototype and then the same in HO gauge, you have done an amazing job in designing, layout, building, painting, and weathering everything so realistically. Thank you for sharing.
These Y6 Class Steamers were very powerful, I believe this a Roanoke built Steamer, anytime a Steamer has 4 steam chest that is powerful. In 1950 I use to be an Engineer on an old Baldwin 4-10-10-2 Steamer during my younger years with Santa Fe Railway. Excellent memories.
nice work, but you need to remove the feedwater heater from the smokebox and the smokebox lagging. The Precision Craft was the ONLY correct model for a late Y6b.
You should have removed the Worthington SA from the top of the boiler front and shortened the smokebox front too. A more subtle thing to change is the headlight mount.
dferg100 I DID go through all that pain with a Rivorossi Y6b, using a jewelers saw, files dremel etc. The best thing I acquired for that project was a brass cab the same size as the Rivorossi one. I still need to paint it and number it (2092, check out the history of THAT Y5. It had the spoked wheels and a tender I had to scratch build from an "Excursion era" A tank.
This film seems to encapsulate the whole spirit and atmosphere of railway modeling! Amazing film. Congratulations. Ps. I won´t ask how you did the trick with the background because I fear I´ll not understand a word of it : ) Very impressive!
Great video! I like the archival footage mixed in. Where did the caboose and box car ultimately end up? I guess this Y coal shifter was one of the last N&W steamers in service. It's a shame so many of them were scrapped.
Great vignettes; great backgrounds - are they photographic? At first I thought you were shooting outside on dioramas, until I noticed a shadow from a structure in the foreground falling onto the background. Great depth of field. Thanks.
Nice! Apparently, you are technically astute enough to do the blue screen background replacement...how 'bout going one more step and add steam and exhaust smoke effects?
I watch all your video's and yes there all amazing. I do have a quick question. What camera are you using for the side by side shots? I am presuming it's small enough to fit on a flat car. Thanks
I want to do a Y6a conversion from a BLI Y6B. Can you give suggestions? I found where calscale has the N&W airpumps. What part numbers did you use? Also Worthington feedwater heater? Any hose changes?
Excellent work. Good concept. Love the layout and the backdrops. Camera work is very good. You using a steady-cam or something? ;-) Most enjoyable following your vids.
WoW great video i love the y6s !!! we have the last one under steam here in germany look at my channel you will like it. power further so we need more from this great N&W steam remembers!!!!
I grew up in Williamson. Was living there in 58. Loved the videos.
thanks, sounds like a great time
@@dferg100 Not so great for my mother, who had to deal with coal smoke 7/24. Not so great when you are waiting at a grade crossing and hoping you can get to the next grade crossing before the train does. But riding the trains was great. I rode the Powhatan Arrow, the Pocahontas, and the Cavalier many times.
Love this one. This is right in my area. I live in Whitman Creek, about 30 minutes from Delbarton. I would love to see more of that video.
Great idea of showing the Prototype and then the same in HO gauge, you have done an amazing job in designing, layout, building, painting, and weathering everything so realistically. Thank you for sharing.
I enjoy the narrative style you worked into this video. Very well thought out, nice clean layout. Thank you for sharing.
Great to actually see a Y6 A under steam mixed in with the models
beautiful work! excellent weathering, and the backgrounds give it so much depth. very nice work.
cheers
bryan
Nice to see where you got your inspiration for your layout. You have certainly managed to capture the feel of the real thing in miniature.
Really nice looking layout!! Gorgeous steamer.
thanks
These Y6 Class Steamers were very powerful, I believe this a Roanoke built Steamer, anytime a Steamer has 4 steam chest that is powerful. In 1950 I use to be an Engineer on an old Baldwin 4-10-10-2 Steamer during my younger years with Santa Fe Railway. Excellent memories.
when i first started watching i thought the model was the real thing very very very well done & nice film of the real locomotives in service
One of the finest layouts in the hobby ....
Fantastic
you taken us back the WV in the fifties.
N and HO models are very good sized for small homes so ya...awesome video
Wow, that Y6 looks amazing. I would do anything to have it sitting on my shelf for display!!
thanks, when I was a little kid I wanted to build a big HO layout, 40 years later I did it
Outstanding... you model layout is incredible.... your backgrounds are really amazing.
You never cease to amaze!
Gorgeous!
Wonderful! so good to know you upload your modelling skills to youtube!
Stunning !!!!
awesome as usual.
@ATSF1927
A 4-10-10-2!!!!!!!!!!!! that thing must have been a monster
nice work, but you need to remove the feedwater heater from the smokebox and the smokebox lagging. The Precision Craft was the ONLY correct model for a late Y6b.
I did ,check out Model Train Layout N&W. I know its not correct the Y6a had a smaller boiler
Nice, but you still have the heater in the firebox, too.
You should have removed the Worthington SA from the top of the boiler front and shortened the smokebox front too. A more subtle thing to change is the headlight mount.
ya I know, I didnt get to carried away
dferg100 I DID go through all that pain with a Rivorossi Y6b, using a jewelers saw, files dremel etc. The best thing I acquired for that project was a brass cab the same size as the Rivorossi one. I still need to paint it and number it (2092, check out the history of THAT Y5. It had the spoked wheels and a tender I had to scratch build from an "Excursion era" A tank.
This film seems to encapsulate the whole spirit and atmosphere of railway modeling! Amazing film. Congratulations.
Ps. I won´t ask how you did the trick with the background because I fear I´ll not understand a word of it : ) Very impressive!
Great video! I like the archival footage mixed in. Where did the caboose and box car ultimately end up? I guess this Y coal shifter was one of the last N&W steamers in service. It's a shame so many of them were scrapped.
Pocahontas Glory #7, great N&W film
"O-U-T-S-T-A-N-D-I-N-G!" :)
Great vignettes; great backgrounds - are they photographic? At first I thought you were shooting outside on dioramas, until I noticed a shadow from a structure in the foreground falling onto the background. Great depth of field. Thanks.
its called green screen, there are pictures I found online
Amazing!!!!
Nice! Apparently, you are technically astute enough to do the blue screen background replacement...how 'bout going one more step and add steam and exhaust smoke effects?
So life like! cheers!
all you needed was smoke and i would have thought i was watching Trains and Locomotives on RFD TV.
@ATSF1927 thanks, love to here from you old engineers wish I could be there
I watch all your video's and yes there all amazing. I do have a quick question. What camera are you using for the side by side shots? I am presuming it's small enough to fit on a flat car. Thanks
@EMDX90 Pocahontas Glory #7 ,great N&W film
What make is that Y6a? It looks fantastic.
i love this video nice job :)
@dferg100 thank you, now I understand. keep up the great work!
@flippop101 Thanks, it the same way the weather man on the news stands in front of the weather maps. Search the word Green Screen
I want to do a Y6a conversion from a BLI Y6B. Can you give suggestions? I found where calscale has the N&W airpumps. What part numbers did you use? Also Worthington feedwater heater? Any hose changes?
@adaribros I pulled the camcorder on a flat car, than added a picture on the green screen
@mrector3 my goal was to make the two big changes in a Y6b. I also didnt lower the walk way on the left side. Your looking to close, ha ha
It is a Bowser-Cary #13-168 feedwater pump
Excellent work. Good concept. Love the layout and the backdrops. Camera work is very good. You using a steady-cam or something? ;-) Most enjoyable following your vids.
Great work again, what did you use for your steam, looks soooo real...
What prototype film is that of the N&W? I would like to see that video.
Pigeon Creek Shifter - Herron Rails distributor
Nice! What DVD did you use for the narraration?
Cool Vid &F/X
WoW great video i love the y6s !!! we have the last one under steam here in germany look at my channel you will like it. power further so we need more from this great N&W steam remembers!!!!
Can you come build me a layout??? THATS JUST AMAZING!!!
ya having fun with greenscreen
Its a Canon G10 taped on a flat car
I can not recall what brand I bought, check out ebay
That magic of greenscreens eh?
2156 was Y6a.
Is this o gage
This is ho gauge