Guided tour of West Island Model Railroad. Layout geography and trains 12/4/22

foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right it's Sunday December the 4th 2022 I'm back at the West Island Model Railroad Club and already I'm seeing some changes we've got three Conrail sd80 Max on this freight train with a K5 la horn I think they had s3ls a monster [Music] truck medicine [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the Great Lake Conrail one of the greatest railroads in history [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] interesting whistle on that F unit there's some Eerie Lackawanna f3s both of them [Applause] [Music] [Applause] with an engine I've seen a lot of this year reading 2102 reading a northern to be politically correct [Applause] [Music] ly have a road [Music] yeah all right we're gonna take a little tour of the layout here and uh Ben you'll hear him narrating in the background he'll tell a little bit about what this layout's little about and why it's designed the way that it is okay all right go ahead we're ready so uh the layout was uh built around 2008 we moved here from our previous location in Farmingdale uh now going on 15 years since we've been in uh this location it's about right the uh loudest main line is roughly about 600 feet 650 feet away wow there's another 300 feet on top of it totaling about 900 of just Mainline 900 feet of Mainland scales to about uh I want to say 13 scale miles wow that's a 686. this section right here is our westernmost section of the layout that we model we model from Harrisburg Pennsylvania to Jersey City New Jersey on the lower level and on the upper level from Scranton Pennsylvania to Maybrook New York yeah oh wow the uh upper level converges down in Stockton Pennsylvania oriented another role of that it's a great state wow so what do you got running today that wasn't running last week we got some Conrail stuff running I believe [Music] horsepower [Music] all right so right here on the lower levels our scene of what will be Hershey Pennsylvania Hershey was uh known for obviously Hershey Chocolate they just tore down the building man just tore down the building we did the the whole track configuration and everything uh it is the largest uh unit section of track for Hershey and chocolate products in the world on the upper level I've got here where the CSX concept is is our soon to be uh rendition of the national breaker breaker in Ashley Pennsylvania uh how it works is a royal cold from the mines comes in gets broken into specific sizes for sale and those are trading Square though either to the east coast for an export or uh Fargo uses such as uh PW New York City school districts and any other industries that needed coal to operate wow [Applause] some of them are in the World's Fair scheme one of them is in the dash and dance Square cabs or Wilkes-Barre yeah [Applause] the DNA shot of connection here a lot of rooms [Music] very well running in more than is there today nearby in Pittston yeah Pittston was just uh South yeah I've spent most of my summer in Wilkes Barry too nice Town very nice uh it's uh well Scranton is where my granddaughter goes to school so I see a lot of that and I see the DL on occasion so all right on the lower level main line one of the former Pennsylvania lines or branches that's being ripped up where we still have interchange business with uh foreign Pennsylvania on the lower level I know that well so Lebanon is uh this scene right here with all the industry tracks the worldview industry tracks uh working your admission as Lebanon Pennsylvania on the upper level is the beginning of the uh Orange [Music] oh yeah caught the uh the uh running a northern F uniting in Northern now operates in this section there's one behind us and I rode behind the Jeep 38 2013 and I saw the nrff up there now is this the Lebanon station it looks so we like it it's a big structure it's probably something in place until we get the actual uh proper footage uh [Music] [Music] our rendition of penhaven Junction on the former C J Lehigh Valley and I remember they turned the trains there [Music] and they still have signals on it oh yeah oh yeah writing in Northern still has a signal board trying to maintain a good signal system [Music] this is one of our recent uh scenery completions wow and this is uh pretty much this is the gorge oh yeah this is our Lehigh River Gorge team it does look like it hopefully it does you know you can see we have hikers hiking in between oh yeah yeah there's the scenery guys down here really do uh add to a lot of the detail yeah I walked along part of that path along the railroad but a lot of it it's up on a retaining wall yes so I couldn't see too much of it but it's yeah this is a thing I really didn't get a chance to notice the scenery as much as the train actually very good as we continue East this is our scene of Glen Anoka oh yeah one in Oakland Pennsylvania this is where the Lehigh Valley cnj Mainland parallel to each other that's right this is our rendition yeah the cnj bridge is gone yes which is now uh no both bridges are still intact today uh what is now used as a road bridge for the uh Whitewater it goes to like a a cave on the mountain I walk through part of it so we're still on the Lehigh Gorge here well we got some more authenticity here we got a Lehigh Valley uh train coming at us another uh yeah we're flying along the trail for our nice yeah some cool stuff almost looks like they almost look like n and W uh passenger cards some of them there he goes and that's got lock sound in it [Applause] [Music] [Applause] whoa for how you doing with your uh learning The Book of Rules oh it's going good you know I'm trying my best trying to stay focused that's right you have to learn all the Long Island Railroad rules pretty much yes yes as we continue East on the upper level we have a town of Lehighton this is where the branch from the coal regions um Branch off this is a section where the raw coal comes in interchanges the car available if you bring it to the breaker yeah it gets sent out to the east coast on the lower level is uh the yard of Reading Pennsylvania riding yarn the former headquarters of the red and railroading so one of our next projects we're probably going to be working on this year scenery wise [Music] look at this built into locking I remember you know that's right outside right by the old schwampbox Diner that's where it used to be this interlocking is named after Beltline Junction yeah all these panels are all intertwined into the signal system that uh our single engineer effect has designed for this layout there's a there's a former signal engineer for the Long Island I was just going to say what kind of electronics backgrounds you have he's a former signal engineer for the Long Island Railroad I believe he was the chief of civil engine I'm not sure about that good guy to have when you're around oh yeah definitely our biggest uh thing we talk about this layout is that uh this land has more plc's than the Port Washington Bridge plc's programmable logic controls oh everything that makes a single system is our reading shops working rendition of running shops everything will it looks something like running shops everything all the detailed in the future I always thought that was an attractive ski too oh yeah and I love the authenticity of the uh one what 30bn sd40-2 and an SP sd45 that's clean I never saw too many clean SP units [Music] oh Sacramento I think that's one of their shops yeah yeah moving right along here [Music] on the upper level you'll start to notice the scenery starts to uh you've done dead almost you know we're entering the uh scene of Palmerton Pennsylvania Palmerton was known for the New Jersey zinc company oh okay and it's a very dirty business of zinc Cinema I think we'll get mined out of New Jersey and parts of Pennsylvania most of everything that was done out there was dirty coal mining but uh zinc mining was one of the dirtiest uh forums smelting believe it or not yeah I wouldn't have known about the zinc mining I know about the coal one of the uh byproducts of uh zinc smelting is a George huh so the amount of toxins that were released into the area because of that now a lot of those mines they're growing mushrooms yes New Jersey zinc uh was in business from I believe 1918 to 1980 it was when it was formally shut down and the landscape still looks like this car yeah pretty much a very very dead yeah the mountains look like there's not much vegetation on it because of that yeah it'll be like this for thousands of years yeah well there's one town in Pennsylvania that's on fire oh yeah yeah I forget what they call it the coal mine is still burning I forget the name of the town you got an rs1 here you see the name of the station it's Fleetwood this is our uh scene of Fleetwood Pennsylvania the one major iconic building infrastructure scene that made food with our economies the food that everybody is better the building is still standing for this day um nice iconic attraction it's a pretty town I was there over the summer well they made the Cadillac fleetwoods yes all right here we go some see any max up here GSX number and the other two in original Conrail members rolling pipeline yeah hi oh yeah it is the Fleetwood Widow body building which I've seen track side yeah I believe it's our Museum I don't think it's still amazing probably he uh the Redding line that's alongside is actually quite a it's an underrated line it's very busy it's busy and it's very Scenic in spots it's very busy it's uh Norfolk Southerners Mainline engineer at city night since I came home freedom [Music] that the wire is in a panic ramp so but nice as you continue uh the lower level is uh meeting the upper level through uh a great starts to level up backtrack is uh the upper level main line there's an exhaust but it's nice [Music] named afterwards town right near this town Topton yes [Music] we're author Dale Woodland used to dine at lunch at the top then in it's an old Inn right at the railroad tracks there I'm just looking at this FL 9 here at the Long Island Railroad hat [Music] all right so this is uh merge town one of the industries that we tried to capture everything uh almost identically is yeah still standing to this day in merge town in uh plain old merchtown is an old depot still standing [Music] so far very intriguing okay the countryside that this is supposed to be around there yeah that's yeah it is pretty what do you know about putting them when you ran a camera in the returners [Music] thank you [Music] uh supposed to be the tonkanic fighter yes this uh is one of the few structures that was uh saved from our little Farmingdale location oh really uh as part of the main light for this layout this is a representation of Titanic and take a look at the emblems inside the pillars you'll see a and w which is the reporting marks for the club's layout the Allegheny in Western ah yes uh this was dedicated by a former to a former member his name is Julius kupperwitz for anybody who knows who that is that is the gentleman that retired number one on the conductors list for the Long Island Railroad I believe he passed away in the late 90s 90 would be wrong but he had uh many great stories of uh being the conductor behind uh k4s g5s E6 Atlantics he probably owned the highest paid job on the road he probably had a month to a crown trip or something I know number four and number nine was one job that was popular I believe his main job were uh trains out of speech yeah he would tell great stories of uh doing about 100 miles an hour from Hicksville to uh full apartment do that today I'm sure with that triple track yes it's superbly engineered somebody told me that they ran an mu from Penn Station to Jamaica in nine minutes yeah yeah the fair track is definitely gonna allow a lot more flexibility absolutely and what is this location this is one of my favorite locations on the layout this is uh one of our scene brakes that we use on the layout um I'm not entirely sure what road this is uh one of the uh one of the many Countryside roads in rural Pennsylvania no shortage of them if you take a look right to the Western Union you'll see the uh corn fields oh yeah every piece of corn uh every corn plant was planted by hand so let's see it wouldn't be a surprise all of those were planted by hand one by one maybe you're trying to replicate Mexico Farm Road on the Pittsburgh line that's uh in the shadow of the mountain it has corn fields a Farm is there yes very nice doesn't mind rail fans as long as you don't mess up his property as uh as we wrap around we start to enter the Allentown area uh the track above is a leave for our hump truck which is an operating hope yard and it works so well the Nationals articulated [Laughter] how did you come up with the name Allegheny in Western that is an answer that predates my uh time in this book [Applause] it used to we had another location and we used to go from Richmond yes West so um okay it was the Mountain Railroad over there over there over the Appalachians with a name like that yeah okay is your main free you are coming this is our Allentown Hook Road area uh working hump yard trains get pushed up classified and reclassified unfortunately I hope you are today still not uh is not active more folk southern closed it yeah I believe they closed about two years ago New York can hold about 400 Freight cars um reliable and departure yard which is right last one standards it's not the biggest but for model railroading standards it's it's a pretty it's an impressive deal I believe it's nine tracks and we have eight tracks for our arrival departure building imagine if you tried the model Bailey yard in North Platte you need a lot more space down here oh you would you need this space but it would be adjusted yeah [Applause] yeah all right here we've got some nice Crown Royal power b36g40-2 [Applause] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] you've been unfortunately and this is our still uh work in progress of uh looking pretty good looks like [Music] and this is your engine facility at Allentown and the format is our shop area uh we hold about 40 engines at a time and try not to pack it up because it feels that becomes useless yeah foreign house over here is uh we're emulating way here because I know I think Allentown had a roundhouse I know Bethlehem did so the Bethlehem engine facility was for Allentown uh New York but the town lines was split right in between the yards so it became known as the engine now I'd say okay right now [Music] it was always called buffalo nothing is left of it today uh I think Conor up in the late 80s about an Armstrong was here Nevada Rose Norfolk Southern Metro Nashville a friend of mine when the engine terminal was still open at Bethlehem we went there you know the engines roll over yes it's like in the 70s and he went on to the shop there area there this is or if I take pictures and he says steal an engine for like yeah oh yeah oh at that time they had anything wrong there was it yeah Redding cmj yeah there was a lot there I remember would be an inch will do that sometimes too yep okay [Applause] [Music] he does a great job [Applause] okay [Applause] [Applause] this is our Recreation of the uh we had our passenger station uh it's unfortunately not there anymore it was tomorrow's back in the 80s in Allentown still in the 70s it was the miles from downtown they left the knee it gives me an idea what it looked like let's see [Applause] uh station is fully detailed you can even see if you peek through the arriving moving time Santa Fe [Applause] yeah you can see the alleghen Western Railroad train bullet eastbound westbound [Applause] I want the detail here [Applause] [Music] at Dorney Park that's their local amusement park [Music] [Applause] well this uh layout definitely makes this Pennsylvania lover very happy I'm Gonna Keep moving East to the uh still in the area of downtown this is our REI building yeah high priority uh packages are dropped off delivered no trains it's a shame they went out of business oh yeah they couldn't compete this is our coach yard for our community operation just get right over here put it to the station and they uh run to Jersey City moving is we're starting to the Bethlehem Area this is our Levi for now so [Applause] this is one of the first scenes on the layout that I was done yeah they tried to recreate is this the uh built to Health Bridge yes this is uh Hill to Hill oh yeah the double track main line is the Lehigh Valley bypass made life around town oh yeah yeah yeah and that's the uh the line going across goes to the yard at Allen the uh line that goes across the main line is the former Readiness main line from Allentown to Philadelphia pleasure of riding on it a couple of times they still were in community service up until the 80s actually they ran at Allentown briefly and uh the track in the backgrounds is the uh connection into our yard and there's the bridge that crosses the river that goes towards Bethlehem this is uh what's known today is a cp87 or CP Buffalo yeah I was there when this today was Saint Pete Bethlehem yep they have this other railroad that works there it's like a local switching company Lehigh Valley uh Lehigh uh Fort I believe is the name around it's uh what's left of the uh steel industry I believe [Applause] this building right here is a form of C J passenger station for Buffalo wow which is now a church I believe and I remember the reading one now it's a now it's a hospital yeah [Applause] appropriately you have a Conrail freak going by e what road is this supposed to be I forget uh better tell you the hill to Hill I know it's a nice 1844s and the soon to be disappearing Southern bell scheme I'm sure that's going to go and what is this building right here this is the um our house building for uh Bethlehem Steel oh um what used to be here is the former uh candy uh candy industry they would take uh corn syrup sugar many many uh interesting Freight cars for a candy maker I forget the name of the uh industry but there was a candy business here and uh the background you see uh the receiving yard for Bethlehem uh steel yeah so yeah oh yeah the backtrack is a slack though which is the byproduct facility skill making process swag would get dumped right on the side of the mountain and the Old Mill is still standing yep grippo Coke Railroad that's uh one of our additional fictitious railroads from the previous layout is that an rsd5 probably so yeah this area here is Bethlehem yardstone yeah the arriving and uh departure school routes around yeah seven no cheap nines you know how you can tell a Jeep knife from a Jeep seven I know the uh that Louver there's only one a Jeep seven has three right the area like one also like to make their numbering system based on the horsepower ratings you're like I wanted soberly I think I only had a half a dozen Jeep knives they had a lot of Jeep sevens though those were all carried over from uh right I'm glad they adopted the Lackawanna colors when they did the uh merger paint oh yeah they're much better beautiful paint skin gorgeous this is our working uh work in progress of uh Bethlehem uh Steel major major complex indeed this this almost doesn't do it justice Bethlehem was a massive massive complex to give you an idea 80 of all the buildings in New York City were built with steel from Buffalo yeah I'm sure and during World War II Bethlehem produced over A lender 1100 ships that should give you an idea is about a ship again between Bethlehem Steel and U.S steel they were probably the biggest steel companies the uh the furnace is never turned off the 24 7 operation ah but once you turn them off it'll take a long time to get them back up again yeah this is our rotary dumper scene unfortunately it doesn't uh rotate we don't do what we call live loads here yeah um we used to do live loads at the previous layout and uh instances have uh pushed us to not do live loads anymore but uh Coke products iron ore and Limestone would all get dropped off here coins will get pushed up the uh cars would get dumped the car would uncouple and then what is known as a kickback you know gravity would pull the car down back up and then down to the adjacent track I believe uh the rotary dump in Baltimore still practices though I think there's one around Huntington West Virginia they use Alco C4 for 15s at least they did I don't believe so anymore as we keep going against we start to enter our eastern Pennsylvania scene one of the uh recently completed scenes on the layout beautifully done yeah it is beautifully done soon the building is still standing the building supports the track so we can't demolish the building there's efforts today I believe to turn it into a museum okay I've seen pictures of it looks like a lot of railroads go through and around Easton yes this is where the uh upper level branches off again this time on this side it's the Lehigh Hudson River main line and as we cross uh as we cross the Delaware into New Jersey okay this is our Recreation of the Lehigh Metro River Bridge area scene coming into Phillips Creek right in the foreground we will have the uh Lehigh Valley and the C J uh Main Line uh bridges built those are currently a work in progress Ive it's hard to get a little continuous so the upper level starts through the year and a game in height it's about a 2.2 percent grade um increases about nine inches and 48 feet [Applause] C J or Jersey Transit ran trains to Phillipsburg for a while continue right at the end well you know West Trenton I wish they'd put that back too yeah yeah this is our Edinburgh tunnel scene uh our Lehigh Valley Maybelline the West Portal of the tunnel vegan idea this scene was uh completed in about four months that's a lot of work to do man let's win a lot with this this went from nothing to this in about four months we had two gentlemen that were very dedicated and uh give this whole entire scene in about four months time if you know what's good for you don't have me do anything work like this all right otherwise it'll ruin everything some guys love to putter I don't really like to putter too much yeah we use this scene to uh cover the upper level to get some separation this is about a separation of about 50 miles on the on hr's neighborhood ah this scene right here is our fattenberg Ford scene oh God I recently completed scene um think that total is normally less than a mile long yeah so that's not it's one of the longer Conrail tunnels but not the longest all right here we go this is what I wanted to see SD 45s and an STP 45 in the back okay I wish we're really sd-45s they had an extended they had a larger fuel tank that's why they had that long and steam generally no no they weren't passenger Powers they're more restricted for the uh larger filter non-stop from New York District they call them stps but they're really cool you see that guy with the wrists on his thing on his hand he's part of a you know Nicholas [Applause] Plainfield this is our uh working scene we haven't really gone here yet of Plainfield New Jersey yeah climbing up the levels uh our seat of Warwick New York the headquarters of the Leon Hudson River Railway yeah never been up there very very nice guy very nice now not too much railroads out there anymore but uh definitely uh definitely worth the trip yeah I really haven't been up on the Susquehanna or the L and HR it's but it looks like pretty country up there yeah the uh tracking the foreground on the upper level is uh that's burnt mine uh track lead amazing cars of about four or five cupboard Hoppers will get picked up and drop them very similar to a fracking today fracking is illegal in New York but mining the Sanford is still even it's like uh in New York fresh water fishing you need a license in Pennsylvania you don't need anything supposedly because I saw a bunch of people in Matamoras PA fishing on one side and nobody was on the porch service side so I asked how Communists oh they don't let your freshwater fish in New York that without a license Pennsylvania's rather legal in a lot of ways okay where are we heading now as uh as we continue East this is our East End of Warwick all right layout Warwick is just a passing society and uh reality it was an eight-track yard where the Lehigh and Hudson were the classified their trains this is our working scene work in progress by our uh superintendent isn't working on this seat this is our East End of uh Plainfield yard as well Plainfield yard was on the uh either the C J or the uh [Applause] most likely they're right now [Laughter] [Applause] I thought that looked familiar former uh cnj and former Lehigh Valley I'm tracking the foreground is the branch line to Greenville New Jersey for the float operations and the double track uh Main Line in the background is for the uh C J's Main Line in New Jersey City I remember they had a disastrous wreck on one of these boys it used to be a four track drawbridge or lift bridge I should say 1958 [Music] South to see all these uh large massive chemical industry and the foreground is our Greenville operation this is where trains uh that get floated over in New York Harbor to uh Points East I think they still do that on occasion New York New Jersey rail still does that to this day it's about a four round trip three round trip operation the whole entire operation has been rebuilt because it's cheaper to float cars on just able to bridge very busy and I have a really real fan the nyna and Brooklyn because the neighborhood seemed kind of uh it's not too difficult there's some nice areas you just gotta get there at the right times but uh this is our float operation soon how it works as far as get loaded onto the barge it's about uh 15 cars at a time for the barge the modern day barges are like Fortune accident they're like 25 calls me yeah and they have weight restrictions [Applause] you know [Applause] all right we've got some got the class unit of the Long Island Railroad cheap 38s right there he's so many trees now we're getting into some bread and butter here and uh yeah we're now back where we started pretty much on the lower level is Jersey City did you get kind of station Yard Works is uh if you imagine like a musical play the staging mode is the offset off stage and the scenic areas around is the uh yeah the trains come out to uh play their part staging represents the rest of the world the rest of the country and other railroads that we interchange with lower levels Jersey City the upper level is native New York the big switching with the big interchange yard your Lackawanna New Haven and I think Lehigh Hudson River New York Ontario Western and I'm chilling there's a massive massive interchange there which is all but gone you can walk the main line nothing there and yeah most of us are hiking trail yes Journey [Music] oh my goodness thank you [Applause] all right here we go I've been here for the pride of your father's collection right your father here today GPS another gp60v and in other three consistency and 40-aw I don't know he's this tops them all this paint Scheme there's nobody that's better Kansas City Southern might be cold what's your father though it was a long distance trucker foreign [Applause] I've seen some of these super calves that they have nowadays yeah it looked like you could go swimming in them yeah huge uh you really like a one at FAS from fa2s yeah and my favorite armor yellow paint Scheme here what's on the head end of that 844 yeah [Applause] I was reading an article they say and it breaks my heart to see this or hear this they say that u p is one of the worst run railroads in the country was enough issues labor issues it's a mixer of a lot of things all of the railroads are getting hurt I hope they get the ship days all right we got some this might be one of the original demo units the DNH yes DNH resistance with the original Three uh governorship with sd45 units with uh the all window tabs and uh they're traded with the year after 10 years and the late 60s and then traded back after time yes some of your lack of water centers were painted in an obvious ear lack of one inspired DNA paint scheme but uh these are all uh Club numbered owned um equipment so how many locomotives do you have with all the club members combined thousands with club members but um during the Open House season usually let the club members put their own personal uh equipment on the way of showcase okay uh the problems about 128 plus Motors and we're approaching I believe pieces of Rolling Stock and that number's only grow as we expand more of the layout parts of the lab with surgery results [Music] this is our what we call Wall of Power for the lab this is our mixture of command stations boosters circuit breakers everything that is needed to run power to the track for the engines and equipment to operate each section of the layout is uh properly uh labeled and broken into specific sections who put this together these were uh put together by members right before my time club members microphone an old member named bear and um rang are no longer here as members but uh Vic is still here don't ask me to elaborate what these parts are remember what I got in college when I took basic Electronics my father was an electrician he wanted me to get into that business but I just didn't I don't know it sourd on me but uh most of these that you see on the wall are the circuit breakers what are these things on the bottom these are the power boosters oh that Supply the additional power to the layout yeah one booster you see on the uh left over there is the command station so that accepts uh the code that we give to the Eman station and sends it out through the track including uh 12 months to pick up with their Dakota Shadows so do your your locomotives ever strain the power grid at all oh yes yes many times we've had members that have put together a 10 unit Concepts and they have blown some breakers it's possible we try to keep some restrictions but it's possible but I guess that five units Santa fake and they're all powered engines so the modern stuff now today really doesn't draw a lot of power oh the motors are you know they're very well well efficiently made you know having a locomotive pulling half an amps a lot okay for nowadays standards so if you buy a locomotive in a store as lock sound how do you program The Sound the Horn the Bell so if you buy a locomotive that's already pre-installed with a sound decoder the sound is already installed through that locomotive you have all the bells the whistles the prime mover sounds those are already pre-installed well how do you choose what you want lock sound offers their own personal programmer it doesn't have to be locked Sam that you have to buy but I mean I'm told that's probably the best it's a standard I it's the decoder of choice that I use for some of my equipment what is it what is the decoder what is that does that come with the locomotive yeah yeah you can buy it with or without the locomotive how much uh the voters himself range about 100 bucks the speaker's another 10 15 bucks so I guess if I wanted to buy like a UPS d70m and a decoder you're probably talking about maybe almost 300 bucks I would think yeah just underneath oh I'm going to Springfield in January I'll see what they've got up there they got a lot of stuff up there you're gonna be able to get a lot of good deals this is the dispatching Center which isn't up and running right now apparently but how does it work when everything is working normally this is our uh what we call Centralized traffic control CTC panel for the entire layout um the three uh monitor screen will display a full linear uh view of the layout cut in half at the staging yard we can line routes for trains throw signals throw switches um guide trains into yards basically the beauty of what uh 261 railroading is you know single indication uh it's the best kind of railroading 261. X most flexibility oh yeah no hand thrown switches no filling out paperwork well the green with your precious Main Line Eastern Ronkonkoma is still that uh still 251 manual block very interesting for railroading but uh none of that here all 261 single indication uh the layout does app sessions where we run the layout like a real Railroad um we have cancer schedules that we have to maintain Freights that get built and uh rebuilt in the Allentown yard and they run on a schedule as well and all controlled by yard Master train Master dispatcher block operators wow and these people that run around with their little control pads I guess that's the throttle yes those are the throttles as NC has their throttles that they uh have for the NC system oh and you can use your phones as well and other uh yeah we're working towards that you know my granddaughter you've probably seen a lot of her on my page she was running the trains once yeah yeah it's very uh the system is very user friendly oh yeah she can run it anybody can and that's what uh that's what this loud uh strides off of that you know anybody can run the trains it's very very simple system well I know you know Jason he's a big New York and Atlantic buff yeah I know Jason who would Chase well like you where you're chasing the freight out of power go gas yeah about a year ago yeah let's see all right well since I'll ever come to running the Santa Fe 199. and a nice super Fleet concept here [Applause] okay yeah today you didn't have a abbva set at the time to myself [Applause] [Applause] okay [Applause] all right I'm got one of these controlling the Santa Fe train here push certain buttons like the horn [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] come on now I'm fulfilling a dream here running the Union Pacific 844. 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Length: 57min 43sec (3463 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 06 2022